Plant & machinery
The equipment behind the catalogue: melting, powder production, hot working, heat treatment, machining and a laboratory that backs every certificate with a measurement.
Sized for the products we sell
Every capability below exists because a product family requires it: vacuum melting because rotating-grade superalloys demand cleanliness, atomisation because complex contours are consolidated rather than carved, drawing benches because tube starts at 0.15 mm outside diameter, and a metrology room because a certificate is only as good as the measurement behind it.
Equipment configuration reflects the current production programme; capability for a specific order is confirmed at enquiry.
Primary melting
Chemistry is owned from the first melt. Vacuum and remelting routes produce the cleanliness that rotating-part and implant specifications demand.
| Equipment | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnaces | Primary melt of superalloys and special steels under vacuum — precise chemistry, low gas content |
| Vacuum arc remelting (VAR) stations | Remelt route for premium rotating-grade cleanliness and controlled solidification |
| Electroslag remelting (ESR) stations | Remelt route for heavy sections with dense, segregation-poor structure |
| Air induction melting | Economical primary melt for non-vacuum grades |
Powder production & consolidation
The powder-metallurgy line takes molten alloy to near-net-shape component: atomise, classify, consolidate.
| Equipment | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Inert-gas atomisation tower | Spherical superalloy and steel powders with rapid-solidification chemistry uniformity |
| Powder classification & sieving line | Particle-size cuts for L-PBF (15–45 µm), EBM, DED and HIP feedstock |
| Powder blending & handling under inert gas | Contamination-free lot preparation and storage |
| Hot isostatic press (HIP) | Full-density consolidation of powder compacts and healing of internal porosity |
Hot working & forming
Deformation equipment sized for everything from heavy disc blanks to precision thin-wall tube.
| Equipment | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Open-die hydraulic forging press | Discs, blanks, bars and rings in superalloys, titanium and steels |
| Forging hammers | High-strain-rate work for grain refinement in smaller blanks |
| Ring-rolling mill | Seamless rolled rings for casings and flanges |
| Bar and section rolling mill | Hot-rolled bar and profiles across the alloy range |
| Hot & cold sheet rolling mills | Sheet, strip and foil — precision cold mill rolls foil down to 5 µm |
| Tube and wire drawing benches | Seamless tube from 0.15 mm OD and precision-drawn round or shaped wire |
Heat treatment
Property levels are set in-house — from PH-stainless H-conditions to two-step superalloy ages.
| Equipment | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Vacuum heat-treatment furnaces | Bright solution treatment and ageing without surface contamination |
| Controlled-atmosphere furnaces | Annealing and normalising of steels and titanium |
| Precision ageing ovens | Tightly-controlled precipitation hardening cycles |
| Quench systems — water, polymer, oil | Full hardening capability for alloy and martensitic steels |
Machining & finishing
Semi-finish machining and processing bring material to the condition your finishing line expects.
| Equipment | What it enables |
|---|---|
| CNC turning centres | Discs, shafts and rings machined to semi-finished contour |
| Multi-axis CNC milling centres | Complex-contour components, including PM near-net shapes |
| Centreless grinding line | Precision-ground bar in 0.1 mm increments to h6–h8 tolerance |
| Band saws and plate saws | Bar, plate and sheet cut to order size |
| Slitting and cut-to-length line | Precision slit coil and levelled sheet from foil and strip |
| Bar straightening and peeling line | Straightness and surface quality on long products |
Laboratory & inspection
Every claim on a certificate is backed by an in-house measurement.
| Equipment | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Optical emission & XRF spectrometry | Melt chemistry control and positive material identification |
| Universal testing machines (incl. elevated temperature) | Tensile and yield verification at room and service temperature |
| Creep and stress-rupture frames | Long-duration property proof for heat-resistant grades |
| Hardness & impact testing (HB / HRC / HV, Charpy) | Condition verification across product forms |
| Metallographic laboratory | Grain size, microcleanliness and structure assessment |
| Ultrasonic, dye-penetrant & eddy-current NDT | Internal soundness and surface integrity on bars, discs and tube |
| Coordinate measuring machines (CMM) | Dimensional conformance of machined components |
Ask the plant a question
Send the part, the alloy and the specification — we answer with the route the plant will run.