Goodwin Steel Castings Limited is a heavy engineering firm located in

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, Staffordshire, England. The company specialises in the production of large, bespoke, machined steel

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History

Goodwin Steel Castings has been a supplier of machined castings since 1883. The

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, with 180 employees, is supported by its sister company, Goodwin International Ltd, located 5 km away which carries out

machining Machining is a process in which a material (often metal) is cut to a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process. The processes that have this common theme are collectively called subtractive manufacturing, which utilizes ...

, fabrication and assembly work on the castings produced by the foundry. The Goodwin machine shop employs some 270 people in its modern

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machining facility. Goodwin Steel Castings Ltd, part of the engineering group Goodwin PLC, is the foremost independent producer of high alloy and high quality integrity castings in the United Kingdom. The company has been in the casting industry since its formation in 1883. It is one of the 10 oldest companies listed on the UK Stock Exchange. In 1984 Goodwins was the first steel foundry in the world to be awarded accreditation by the

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to BS5750 (now

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) for casting production and also for the computer simulation of casting feeding. In 2006 the company was awarded the Queen's Award for International Trade.

Capabilities

The company specialises in cast parts for suppliers to the engineering, nuclear, oil, petrochemical, and process industries worldwide. Materials supplied include carbon, low alloy, stainless steel, heat resistant, duplex and super duplex stainless steels and super nickel alloys. They supply machined castings from 200 kg to 10,000 kg as single pieces and up to 18,000 kg as fabricated single components. Welded assemblies up to 50,000 kg can be supplied. Steel and nickel alloys are melted in the

electric arc furnace An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to ab ...

and can be processed through the AOD refining vessel.

Applications

Goodwin castings are used in a variety of projects. Some of the more high-profile projects are listed below.

Bridges

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* Jiangyin Bridge Pelamis bursts out of a wave

Structural/Architectural

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* Stratford station
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Power Generation (including Nuclear)

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* Sizewell B nuclear power station
Sellafield re-processing plant

Other

Development

Goodwin have been heavily involved in Nickel alloy development programs for fossil fuel power plants for Advanced Super Critical Applications (A-USC). These projects include: *Thermie AD700 * COMTES *Pacific Basin 700 research *European

NextGenPower NextGenPower is an integrated project which aims to demonstrate new alloys and coatings in boiler, turbine and interconnecting pipework. The concept of NextGenPower is to perform innovative demonstrations that will significantly contribute to the ...

*MacPlus

References

External links

Goodwin Steel Castings
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