AFS Rotel

AFS Rotel Limited is a UK-based design and manufacturing specialist with over 40 years of experience, located in Bacup, Lancashire. They offer bespoke solutions across the entire product lifecycle, leveraging a combination of advanced technologies and traditional techniques.

Their core capabilities include 3D printing (specializing in HP Multi Jet Fusion), laser scanning, reverse engineering, inspection, and comprehensive tooling design and manufacturing. AFS Rotel excels in hard metal machining, utilizing 7-axis CNC robot machining cells, CNC metal cutting lathes, milling machines, and manual tools to produce finish-machined industrial spares from various materials, including metals up to 65 HRC. They also manufacture soft tooling for vacuum forming, foundry patterns, and composite tooling. These in-house processes are available as a subcontract machining service, serving sectors such as aerospace and foundry.

AFS Rotel provides detailed inspection reports using highly accurate measurement arms with laser scanners or touch probes, enabling full GD&T geometric inspection and Statistical Process Control (SPC). Their laser scanning expertise, developed since 2003, is applied globally for reverse engineering and inspection. They utilize design packages like Solidworks and CATIA for bespoke design solutions, engineering drawings, and tooling design, addressing client needs for industrial spares, integrated safety systems, and workholding solutions.