pECM Systems have supplied Electro Chemical Machining Systems around the world. Every Stealth Bomber, Eurofighter and Apache Helicopter has major, critical components manufactured on our machines.
We have produced multi-axis machines capable of machining platforms and shrouds of turbine blades at the same time as machining the airfoils. Leading and trailing edges machined to finished drawing dimensions.
Benefits
- Very high stock removal rates
Shark skin effect surfaces
- Submicoron surface finish
- No brittle re-cast layer
- No heat effected zone
- Zero Cathode wear
- Very stable process
- Extremely repeatable
- Very fast ROI
- Its is a new process to most company so any development work can usually be set off against Corporation Tax (125% for SMEs)
Applications
- Compressor Blades
Honeycomb seals
- Turbine Blades
- Precision components
- Honeycomb seals
- Strip seals
- Rotating components
- Exotic Materials – Nickel Alloys, Titanium Alloys, Titanium Aluminide

Labyrinth seal

Compressor blades