Printer Friendly
Email a Friend
Difficult Elbow Cladding Project Completed To Tight Delivery Schedule
01 Jan 2007
Part of a contract awarded by Shell’s Stanlow Refinery to Salfordbased Langfields Ltd, one of the UK’s leading fabricators of components in nickel alloy, titanium and reactive metals, involved cladding four 36” carbon steel elbows with stainless steel.
Largest Ever Section of Hardened Nickel Alloy Cut
01 Jan 2007
A call for help to Howco Metals Management, experts in steel stockholding, engineering and heat treatment processing, resulted in the Sheffiled company sawing 1,092mm diameter, notoriously tough, nickel alloy ingots into smaller pieces, despite uncontrolled cooling having resulted in a large internal blow hole in one of the ingots. It is believed to be the largest section of such alloy ever cut.
