One of our key strengths as a long established steel stockholding business is that we’re able to fulfil long term supply contracts to the defence sector, and also respond to additional short term spikes in demand.
This particular global defence industry business specialise in the design and engineering of high performance suspension systems for armoured and military vehicles.
A major innovator in all aspects of vehicle mobility, engineering integrity is paramount to the high performance products that they make. They are the industry benchmark.
Given our metallurgical expertise, and dependable supplier networks, they approached us to supply them with a number of metals for specialist component design and manufacture. Because improved strength was an important factor in their composition, we modified chemical compositions for improved machinability.
Metals supplied were:
We also conducted UT testing, 3rd party testing, first stage machining, boring and testing.
This is a great example of where we can bring added value expertise to long term supply agreements over multiple projects, with various end users and subcontractors.
