The high end specifications required by the European XFEL project have provided five exciting mirror system projects for FMBO over the past year, putting the new cleanroom into action. FMBO has developed new, technically advanced, concepts that are currently undergoing manufacture and test. These design advancements facilitate the EXFEL requirement to cradle and bend ultra-high […]
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On Monday 11th July 2016 we were joined by European XFEL customers Dr. Adrian Mancuso, Dr.Richard Bean, Nadja Reimers and Luis López Morillo for the official opening of our new cleanroom facility. Along side them was the Lord Mayor of Oxford, who attended as special guest to participate in the proceedings. The cleanroom was rebuilt and extended
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Unit 3, the new In-Air Assembly area, has recently been upgraded as part of the factory improvement. The assembly area, along with bake out equipment, has been relocated from Unit 2 and now includes a newly installed 5 tonne overhead crane.
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In 2015 the lease on the adjacent building at Unit 4 Ferry Mills became available and we took over the lease towards the end of the year. The acquisition of Unit 4, providing an additional 460 m2 of available warehouse and office space, facilitates a number of general alterations to the layout of the factory
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Commissioned in May 2014, the original cleanroom occupied approximately 36m2, including the equipment clean down and gowning area. This left approximately 30m2 of usable production space. This cleanroom is now de-commissioned and in January 2016 was rebuilt and extended to give a total area of approximately 110m2. This increases the usable production area to approximately
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