Lameco Laminated Shims
Its annual turnover of 5m is divided 50 50 between the aeronautic sector and other industries.
Lameco laminated shims. We also proudly distribute practi shim color coded plastic shim stock. Overview on lameco laminated shims. Lameco is wholly owned by the gastel family through a holding company called inteline. Lameco laminated shims also called peel shims peelable shims or peel off shims are designed with special materials which have the property of being easily peelable into micro fine strips of a few hundredths of a millimeter of two tenth thousands of an inch.
Shims are indispensable in mechanical systems compensating for typical manufacturing tolerances found in their assembly and allowing them to fulfill their intented function. No risk of delamination. Our laminated shims are composed of foils glued across the entire face and not just at the edge. Lameco has thousands of clients.
Lameco began operations in 1974 as a laminated shim specialist. The company has been growing steadily for 40 years. Accutrex hq manufactures shims gaskets custom od id washers accupeel laminated shim stock and sheet metal fabrications. Lameco manufactures customized high tech laminated shims for demanding engineering applications.
They are built up from layers of precision gauge metal foil. Adjusting them is as easy as peeling off laminations with a tool. Laminated shims have peelable layers of metal which are removed until the shim has the proper thickness. Spirol international is the north american distributor of intercomposite laminated shims by lameco buc cedex france.
The peelable shim layers are bonded into a rigid structure that appear and function as a solid sheet or plate. An additional benefit of our unique production process is a shim whose mating faces are perfectly parallel and totally free of any burrs whether made of metal or composite material. Accutrex products is an iso 9001 and as9100 registered veteran owned small business. Intercomposite istrademarked under license to spirol international corp.