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Strategic Business Unit

Rings and Casings

Description

Manufacturer of forged rings, casings, blades and discs for the aerospace, industrial gas turbine and specialized engineering industries. Processes include ring rolling, near net profiling and flash butt welding. Machining and project management of engine ready parts.

Materials

Nickel, cobalt, titanium, aluminium alloys, stainless steels
Forged and rolled rings and casings, turbine discs and flash butt welded rings

Principal markets

Aerospace and industrial gas turbines
Missiles
Turbochargers
Aerostructures
Petrochemical
Other specialised engineering applications

Capacity

Forged or rolled casings and rings up to 3.5m diameter, 1.0m high, 3000kg weight
Precision rolled rings up to 1600mm diameter, 500mm high
Flash butt welded rings up to 2000mm diameter
Project management of finished machined rings

Technology

CAD/CAM CAMTEK PEPS 3
CNC vertical ring rolling

Facilities

2500 tonne forging press
5 tonne forging hammer
250 tonne radial ring mill
125/80 tonne radial/axial ring mill
200 tonne precision rolling mill
70 tonne precision rolling mill
Heat treatment facilities
4 x CNC vertical borers
2 x CNC lathes
2 x profile vertical borers
2 x 10 feet profile VBS
1 x 90" VBS
1 x 72" profile VBS
Fluorescent penetration inspection and UST facilities
1100 tonne expander

Accreditations

BS EN ISO 9001:2000 & AS9100
NADCAP: Heat Treatment, Chemical Processing, Flash Butt Welding,
NDT (Flourescent Penetrant Inspection)
EN ISO EMS 14001: 2004
OHSAS 18001: 2007

Fan blades (Forged) for the Aerospace market
Rings and discs (Forged) for the Aerospace market
Casings - fan, compressor, combustor (Forged) for the Aerospace market
IGT Turbine rings and discs (Forged) for the Industrial gas turbine market
IGT Casings (Forged) for the Industrial gas turbine market
IGT Turbine blades (Forged) for the Industrial gas turbine market
Compressor airfoils (Forged) for the Aerospace market
Turbine airfoils (Forged) for the Aerospace market