Formed in 1969 and based in the heart of Birmingham, Premax Engineering offers a unique service to customers. Besides all the onsite facilities that include CNC turning, CNC milling, manual turning and milling, jig boring, universal and surface grinding plus bench work fitting and assembly.
Premax Engineering can carry out complete manufacture of most components to include processes such as heat treatment, gear cutting, surface treatments and many more through a network of suppliers built up over nearly 40 years.
The cutting of gears is a specialist process, which can be achieved through a variety of machining methods.
Broaching is often used to manufacture different designs of gear, which involves the use of a broach tool to remove material as required.
However, the most common method of gear cutting is hobbing, especially within the production of helical and spur gear designs. Using a hob - a cutting tool with design variants depending on the gear type - the teeth or splines are cut into the gear accordingly. This process is fully-automated through the use of a hobbing machine, which often cater for both small and extremely large gear designs. 
