Corporate Background

“Steeped in a long tradition of the world-leading manufacture of deep hole drilling machines and their complementary tooling (micro and deep hole gun drills), as well as precision engineered deep hole components, the Mollart Group was founded in 1929 by my grandfather.

The family-owned business began life as general production engineers producing a wide range of components for the automotive and aerospace industries, including work on the early helicopters.

Today, the 100-employee Mollart Group’s value-added manufacturing expertise has evolved into an unrivalled and dynamic project and production engineering skills set that not only meets but also actually surpasses the challenges presented by the demands of 21st century contract manufacture across every industry sector — including medical, off-road, oil, nuclear, defence and telecommunications — in addition to an ongoing association with clients in the aerospace and automotive industries.

Here at Mollart we firmly believe that successful, profitable manufacturing partnerships are based on continuous, two-way communication and with this to the back drop to everything we do, I look forward to discussing how we can help you to increase your profits and your competitiveness.”

Guy Mollart,
Managing Director

A worldwide reputation

Mollart’s adeptness at first assimilating users’ needs then satisfying those requirements with high-precision, cost-effective precision components has earned the company a global customer base and an unmatched worldwide reputation for:

Project management – from initial enquiry through to production engineered solutions, modern high-technology production capabilities, stringent quality control and consistent on-time delivery, in many cases direct to line. From initial design brief through to the development of complete manufacturing processes, the Mollart service is the complete service.

Precision engineered components, sub-assemblies/assemblies - in any batch size, incorporating close-tolerance deep holes – from just 0.74 mm diameter to 300 mm diameter, and with diameter-to-depth ratios of 200:1 up to three metres deep – as well as incorporating every type of shaft-type and prismatic machining capability.

Value-added machining – in addition to our renowned deep hole, gun and micro drilling capacity – over 50 standard, single- and multi-spindle deep hole spindles are available round the clock – our extensive and modern portfolio of production equipment and facilities include over 30 examples of some of the most up-to-date high-technology production machinery available, including:

Mazak one-hit turn/milling; Cazeneuve, Hitachi Seiki and Weiler CNC turning; Star CNC sliding head autos; Daewoo, Kitamura and Mori Seiki CNC milling and machining centres; Kearns Richards horizontal boring and SIP jig boring; and AG and Delapena honing.

In addition, customer-specific manufacturing cells can be installed to meet specific demands.

Quality control – accredited to BS EN ISO 9001: 2000, Mollart’s qualitative QC culture envelopes philosophies such as Kaizen, TQM and SPC, matching our passion for precision production routines. Individual component or batch sampling inspection routines, accompanied by full component traceability, can be implemented to suit specific requirements.

Continuous support – our considerable project management expertise permeates our complete company structure, as well as the manufacturing partnerships we establish with clients, and this continues even after component/batch delivery.

COMPANY HISTORY

1929	Mollart was started as a partnership between J.C. Hendra and A.J. Mollart, together with six colleagues, all ex-employees of A.C. Cars after the closure of the AC factory in 1929. J.C. Hendra (left) and A.J. Mollart (right)
1933	Involved in the development work for “autogiros” & manufacture of the main rotor head
1939–1945	Specialised in gauging, fixturing, small machine assemblies & universal joints. Critical to manufacturers of military equipment such as landing arrester hooks on the Fairey Swordfish aircraft and parts for a mechanical computer used in A.B. Bofors’ AA gun predictor.
1946	Commenced the design and manufacture of special purpose machinery. 1946: Automated machine for the coating of “Diamond” brand match heads and packing into the match boxes.
1965	First gundrilling / deep hole boring machine was developed.
1972	First multi-task machine for high-volume parts was developed.
1983	Guy Mollart, third generation of the family is appointed managing director.
1989	Rebirth of automotive engineering with machining of gearbox and transmission housing used on march Indy 500 race cars.
1993	Commenced manufacture under licence of Botek gundrills and re-tipping service in the UK.
1995	Mollart-Cox was formed, a joint venture company providing a sub-contract service to northern England and Scotland.
1997	Mollart Automotive was formed to develop a sub-contract drilling facility next to TRW in South Wales.
2002	Major $1m investment in single-hit machining capability for high value added subcontract machining.
2004	Delivery of 10th machine in a $5m contract for mold manufacturer using Mollart FMC Deep Hole Drilling Machining Centre.