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Driveshafts for Warships Demonstrate Capability
01 Oct 2006
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) is producing a premachined driveshaft for the namesake of France’s fleet of Georges Leygues Class frigates. Manufacturing of the driveshaft is on such a scale that it requires the engineering skills and sheer physical capacity of the historic Sheffield company to bring it to fruition.
Measuring more than 20m long, the driveshaft was hot-forged from a 67 ton ingot of steel at Forgemasters Brightside Lane site and then transferred to their machine shop to be shaped on a huge 22m long lathe to create the pre-machined shaft.
The client, DCN Equipements Navals of Ruelle-Sur-Touvre, will then carry out final machining of the driveshaft.
This project comes on the heels of a previous driveshaft produced by SFIL for the French Navy, for their flagship 38,000 ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the Charles De Gaulle. Dr Graham Honeyman, Chief Executive at SFIL, said: “We have specialist capacity for producing and machining projects of this size, and as such, SFIL is one of the few companies in the world that can carry out an entire project of this scale under one roof.”
SFIL feeds an increasing global demand for high quality engineered products to key industries such as defence, nuclear, oil and gas exploration, power generation, marine and construction.
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