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Erodex announces best ever sales quarter

Recently, Scott Horton – Head of UK Sales at Erodex – caught up with Dave Tudor from Production Engineering Solutions Magazine to discuss how the team have achieved their best ever quarter during times of economic turbulence.

Here’s an excerpt of what Scott had to say:

“It would be true to say that EDM underpins everything we do,” Mr Horton explains, “and our product and service offering is extensive. “For example with wire EDM, we’re the official UK distributor for Bedra wire from Berkenhoff GmbH and we offer consumable sales on machine and wear parts. Then there’s die-sink EDM consumables and products, as well as a range of filters, carbon vanes, flow tested single and multi-channel brass and copper tube (for EDM drill applications), and products for the heat treatment industry and vacuum furnace applications. We’re also the exclusive UK distributor for Poco graphite products.”

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Erodex Graphite

“The Darlaston site predominantly serves the aerospace and IGT industries with the machining of graphite electrodes for blade and vane products,” he adds. “While this is mainly for the UK market, we also supply customers in America. In fact, we’ve recently set up a graphite electrode manufacturing facility in the US because it’s such a growing market for us. It’s going extremely well.”

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June 25, 2025

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