A British steel foundry has become the first company in the world to manufacture castings using an innovative new series of high strength austenitic stainless steels.
Furniss & White, which specialises in high integrity stainless steel castings, fabrications and precision machining, signed a long-term agreement to produce its castings using high-performance alloys from the N’GENIUS Series under license.
The Sheffield-based firm has successfully completed a range of Manufacturing Procedure Qualification Tests at its facilities in various grades from the N’GENIUS Series and will be providing castings for engineering products made using these advanced materials to its customers.
The N’GENIUS Series, which is patent protected in 30 countries, represents the total reinvention of conventional austenitic stainless steels – commonly known as the 300 Series.
Dr Ces Roscoe, CEO of N’GENIUS Materials Technology and inventor of the N’GENIUS Series, said: “Furniss & White is a company that shares our own passion and drive for innovation and we are absolutely delighted to be collaborating with them on what is destined to be an industry changing technology.
“With a long history of steelmaking, Sheffield is widely regarded as the birthplace of stainless steel and it seems befitting that it will essentially be ‘reborn’ in the same city more than a century later.”
Established in 1980 and employing more than 110 people, Furniss & White serves the pump, valve, filter and engineering industries with castings from approximately 0.5kg to 2,600kg finished weight in a range of materials including carbon and low alloy steels, stainless steels and nickel alloys. The firm manufactures an extensive selection of cast products for wide application in sectors including oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, mining, marine, defence and power generation.
Sam Scholes, managing director at Furniss & White, said: “For more than 44 years we have built a strong reputation as a high-quality British manufacturer of high integrity castings made in our modern foundry in the UK.
“Now, as an approved licensed N’GENIUS manufacturer, we are writing an exciting new chapter in our history and to be the first foundry in the world to have this capability makes us extremely proud.
“We expect these game-changing N’GENIUS materials will be extremely popular with our existing customers and help open up new opportunities in other markets including the US and Canada and in clean energy industries such as hydrogen.”
The N’GENIUS Series, which can be manufactured in both cast and wrought product forms, possesses all the typical benefits of conventional austenitic stainless steels including excellent ductility and toughness at ambient, sub-zero and cryogenic temperatures. But with vastly superior strength and corrosion resistance.
N’GENIUS is a complete family of grades which provide an extensive choice of high-performance, high strength austenitic stainless steels including materials which are cost-effective alternatives to certain nickel alloys. Suitable for all products, all service conditions and even the harshest of process media environments, N’GENIUS is the total system material.
Discover more about the N’GENIUS Series at www.ngeniusmaterials.com and for further information about Furniss & White visit www.f-w-f.co.uk
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