Caunton are excited to be involved with a brand new cutting-edge development, the new Advanced Semisolid Casting Technology (ASCT) Building for Honda UK Manufacturing at Swindon. Caunton are supplying nearly 600te of structural steelwork for the building which is to house the manufacturing unit for the new Honda ASCT Engine. This engine will include a high-strength cylinder block manufactured using a brilliant new production process. This new process, ASCT, has been adopted for the newly developed 2.2L 4-cylinder Intelligent Common-rail Turbo Diesel Injection (i-CTDi) diesel engine which will be fitted into the new and most stylish Honda Accord (see photograph) to be marketed in Europe in the future.

The new process results in a 30% weight reduction in the new cylinder block, compared to that of the conventional cast iron diesel engines of the same displacement. The brilliance of the Honda engineers, who developed this, creates of course a more sustainably-attractive motor car coming onto the market. Caunton are delighted that they are helping in some small way to move this forward.

Regular readers of Caunton Web Site News will be reminded of reading over the years about a long line of buildings at Honda Swindon where Caunton have been of service to this highly respected and forward thinking car manufacturer.