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Morgan MMS Recuperative Gas Baleout Furnace

It is a refreshing break from the current fleet of businesses sinking beneath the waves of economic recession to see a well respected business like MJ Allen celebrating 50 years of pattern making and casting by commissioning their first manufacturing cell. Family run since 1958,theMJ Allen group is a small but diverse company based in Ashford, Kent, covering many facets of engineering including pattern making, casting aluminium and iron alloys, CNC machining, automotive and architectural engineering, press tooling, sheet metal machinery,and precision measurement.

Having acquired County, a designer of Transmission Systems and the original developer of the Ford Transit 4 Wheel Drive system, MJ Allen were perfectly placedto develop, and subsequently land the order for, the new Transit All Wheel Drive Transmission. The success of the vehicle has meant that the initial contract to supply Ford Transmission Plant at Halewood with 1350 units per year could quickly to grow to a potential 3500 units a year.

With the initial installation comprising of two Morgan Molten Metal System With the initial installation comprising of two Morgan Molten Metal System (MorganMMS) BT700 tilting furnaces to supply the Die Casting machine,

MorganMMS was the natural choice to choice to supply a further furnace to meet the increased demand for metal.

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