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Strategic Business Unit

Turbine Airfoils

Description

Superalloy investment cast blade and vane airfoils for aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries.

Materials

Nickel and cobalt based superalloys

Principal markets

Power generation: vacuum cast blades and vanes for aeroengines and industrial gas turbines
High pressure turbine blades in DS-SX technology
Supply of superalloy cast sticks
Hot isostatic pressing (HIP) and powder metallurgy for third parties
Metallurgical testing service for research and academic institutions

Capacity

Components up to 20kg (vacuum cast)
Blades and vanes up to 0.8 metres in length
HIP units up to 1 metre diameter x 2 metres, 2000 degrees C, 200 Mpa, 6 tonnes, rapid cooling

Technology

Vacuum investment (lost wax) casting
Equiaxed (CC); directional solidification (DS); single crystal (SX) - technologies
LMC liquid metal cooling
HIP Hot isostatic pressing
Powder metallurgy
Ceramic core production
Master-melt alloy production
Heat treatment, finishing processes, x-ray, laboratory & testing

Facilities

Investment castings
H I P Hot isostatic pressing
L M C liquid metal cooling
Master-melt alloy facility

Accreditations

EN ISO 9001" into DIN EN 9001: 2003
Leading customer approvals: SABREe Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Alstom, MTU, GE General Electric, Siemens Westinghouse
NADCAP: Heat Treatment, NDT (Flourescent Penetrant Inspection and X-Ray)
EN ISO EMS 14001:2004
OHSAS 18001: 2007

Turbine airfoils (Cast) for the Aerospace market
IGT Turbine airfoils (Cast) for the Industrial gas turbine market
Superalloys (Cast) for the Aerospace market
Superalloys (Cast) for the Industrial gas turbine market
Superalloys (Cast) for the Petrochemical market
Superalloys (Cast) for the Specialist automotive market
Superalloys (Vacuum Induction Melted) for the Aerospace market
Superalloys (Vacuum Induction Melted) for the Industrial gas turbine market
Superalloys (Vacuum Induction Melted) for the Petrochemical market
Superalloys (Vacuum Induction Melted) for the Specialist automotive market
IGT Turbine blades (Cast) for the Industrial gas turbine market
IGT Turbine blades (Cast) for the Industrial gas turbine market
Turbine blades (Cast) for the Aerospace market
IGT Turbine buckets (Cast) for the Industrial gas turbine market
IGT Turbine vanes (Cast) for the Industrial gas turbine market