Hexagon Metrology boosts blade production

The company C.M. Menegazzi was established in 1982 and is still led by its founder Umberto Menegazzi, who has been joined by sons Roberto and Luca, respectively responsible for the accounts/sales and technical areas of the business. The use of state-of-the-art design and production technologies has always been key to C.M. Menegazzi’s operations: in the early ‘80s its main business was the direct copymilling of aeronautic parts and turbine blades, as well as parts of small, medium and large moulds. Shortly afterwards, with the adoption of CAD/CAM systems, processes began to be based on mathematical models.

“To start the production process,” Roberto Menegazzi explains, “our customers may supply us either with cross-section drawings of blades or the mathematical model. We are now also able to produce parts by reconstructing the entire mathematics of turbine blades using reverse engineering techniques.”

This blend of production and design capabilities has been and is still the distinguishing feature of C.M. Menegazzi, supplier to big names such as Siemens AG Energy Sector, Alstom Power System, ABB, GE, Škoda Power, Ansaldo Energia and Fincantieri.

“Our machining operations in the area of energy generating turbines,” Roberto Menegazzi continues, “have enabled us to achieve accreditation as a Technological Laboratory authorised by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Scientific and Technological Research. This means we can play an active part in projects for the development of new prototypes, in collaboration with our customers...