News: Forgemasters strengthen nuclear manufacturing capabilities
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) is in a prime position to make the most of their proximity to the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) and Rolls-Royce on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham.
The Brightside company has a long history of manufacture of components for civil and military applications. They are now positioned to expand into nuclear fabrication after passing a very testing audit to retain its 20-year coveted ASME status as a key supplier of heavy forgings and castings to the civil nuclear power market.
As a result of the three-yearly audit, SFIL aims to secure a higher level, ASME NPT (Nuclear Partials) accreditation, in early 2013, enabling the historic engineering marque to become the only UK producer of heavy forgings and castings to physically weld-fabricate such safety critical components to form the heart of a nuclear power plant.
Once SFIL secures NPT status, it will sit with one of its key customers, Rolls Royce, as one of the only UK companies qualified for main component fabrication within a civil nuclear power plant.
Rolls-Royce has submitted plans for a 21,000 sq m "Project PoWeR" facility on the AMP for the manufacturing and assembling of power vessels for the next generation of nuclear power stations.
David Street, group quality director, at SFIL, said: "Forgemasters currently enjoys ASME status as a Materials Organisation. The programme to gain NPT status is a huge development with enhanced requirements and disciplines embracing all our processes, employees and sub suppliers. This is to ensure we meet the exacting construction requirements of the ASME code, which are some of the most stringent demands in modern engineering."
SFIL has an unparalleled understanding of the ASME code within the UK and through its role as a tier one member of the Nuclear AMRC, is poised to play a crucial part in establishing quality assurance requirements for businesses aiming to enter the UK civil nuclear supply chain.
David added: "The code is an absolute requirement with no scope for concessions. Manufacture must be ASME code compliant to avoid non-acceptance and rejection. That's where our involvement with the NAMRC should enable our expertise in this field to reach a much broader market."
SFIL website
Nuclear AMRC
Images: SFIL
The Brightside company has a long history of manufacture of components for civil and military applications. They are now positioned to expand into nuclear fabrication after passing a very testing audit to retain its 20-year coveted ASME status as a key supplier of heavy forgings and castings to the civil nuclear power market.
As a result of the three-yearly audit, SFIL aims to secure a higher level, ASME NPT (Nuclear Partials) accreditation, in early 2013, enabling the historic engineering marque to become the only UK producer of heavy forgings and castings to physically weld-fabricate such safety critical components to form the heart of a nuclear power plant.
Once SFIL secures NPT status, it will sit with one of its key customers, Rolls Royce, as one of the only UK companies qualified for main component fabrication within a civil nuclear power plant.
Rolls-Royce has submitted plans for a 21,000 sq m "Project PoWeR" facility on the AMP for the manufacturing and assembling of power vessels for the next generation of nuclear power stations.
David Street, group quality director, at SFIL, said: "Forgemasters currently enjoys ASME status as a Materials Organisation. The programme to gain NPT status is a huge development with enhanced requirements and disciplines embracing all our processes, employees and sub suppliers. This is to ensure we meet the exacting construction requirements of the ASME code, which are some of the most stringent demands in modern engineering."
SFIL has an unparalleled understanding of the ASME code within the UK and through its role as a tier one member of the Nuclear AMRC, is poised to play a crucial part in establishing quality assurance requirements for businesses aiming to enter the UK civil nuclear supply chain.
David added: "The code is an absolute requirement with no scope for concessions. Manufacture must be ASME code compliant to avoid non-acceptance and rejection. That's where our involvement with the NAMRC should enable our expertise in this field to reach a much broader market."
SFIL website
Nuclear AMRC
Images: SFIL
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