Halifax Rack & Screw Cutting Co Limited

HRS was established in 1953 and is considered Europe’s largest specialist manufacture and supplier of gear rack, pinions, trapezoidal power screws, jack screws, Acme feed screws and nuts together with a full CNC machining facility.
HRS employs over 40 people in a 30,000 sq foot purpose built manufacturing facility in Brighouse, Yorkshire UK.
Whilst initially founded to serve the precision machine tool industry, the successful diversification into many other industrial sectors together with a strategy of capital investment of over £2M in new machinery, computer technology and training, HRS has seen continuous growth with exports worldwide now achieving over 50% of turnover.
HRS benefits from a highly skilled, experienced and flexible workforce dedicated to the production of high quality precision products.

Precision Gear Racks
Precision gear racks have longer in service lives, smoother performance characteristics and more accurate pitch control than other machining techniques.
HRS can machine in straight, spur and helical tooth forms up to 45 degrees, with a 450 mm / 17.75 inch face width and height and up to 12metres / 40 foot long.

HRS utilises specialist dedicated CNC rack cutting machines to ensure highest accuracy up to AGMA class 10 spacing tolerances.

Features
Additional machining - end matching, drilling, tapping, slotting, profile milling, special coatings
Different material grades up to 300 BHN
Gear rack is available in both imperial and metric material dimensions
HRS can also produce round rack to customers specifications
Diametral pitch available from 64 DP to 1 DP
Circular pitches available up to 3.5 ins
Metric modular pitch available from 0.5 to 28
Special pitches available on request

Lead and Power Screws
HRS manufactures all types of screws, using performance guaranteed materials and offer unique solutions to power transmission problems.

All screws are cut from performance guaranteed materials.
All screws are subject to stringent quality controls.
All screws are cut rather than rolled resulting in:

Greater accuracy.
A greater precision fit with mating nuts.
The thread is concentric with major diameter.
Superior control of cumulative pitch accuracy.

Features
Whirled carbon steel and stainless steel lead screws
Thread milling up to 9 ¾”dia x 16 ft long and 3.5”dia x 25 ft long
Thread whirled up to 6 ¼” dia x 39 ft long
Trapezoidal, Acme, Square thread, Multi start and custom design
Left hand and Right hand screws
Metric and Imperial leads
Reversing screws
End journal machining to customers design

Address: Coronation Works, Armytage Road, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
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