INDUSTRY NEWS
Barrett Steel launches Energy Products Division
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he Barrett Steel Group has announced that it has created a new division specifically to service the global energy markets. The Barrett Energy Products Division unifies the various UK and US facilities under a new identity, supporting both UK and international growth. Managing Director, John Childs, explains: “We strategically made the move into the Oil & Gas sector four years ago and have had year-on-year growth ever since. With continued investment in both people and equipment, the new Division gives us a corporate identity that supports our vision of becoming a world leader as a solution provider for the energy industry.
“With facilities in the UK and USA our services include forging and heat treatment, deep hole boring, machining, cladding and in-house testing. Our Barrett Strip and Alloy business offers decoiling and slitting facilities supporting the metallic gasket sector. With our product range, including nickel &
John Childs, Managing Director.
super alloys, carbon & alloy, sour service grades, stainless and duplex grades, we feel we are in a strong position to support the industry’s requirements.”
More information is available on Barrett Steel
t: +44 (0)1274 682281
chris.lamb@
barrettsteel.com www.barrettsteel.com
Hammer forging Company director achieves chartered status
Aerospace and motorsport surface engineering specialist Wallwork Heat Treatment is marking the election of technical director Peter Carpenter to Fellow of the Institute of Directors (IoD), and his qualification by examination as a Chartered Director. Peter explained, “I have taken both the IoD certificate and diploma courses at Salford University and join a group of just over 1000 Chartered Directors world- wide.”
Peter has been a director
of the Bury and Birmingham businesses since 1992, having
joined as a metallurgist in 1983. “There have been significant changes in the industry over 30 years, our main activity is still in heat treatment for general engineering, but with more customers in advanced sectors such as aerospace, motorsport and nuclear there are new technical challenges. This has required major investment in research and development leading to more sophisticated thermal treatment and coating processes,” Peter explained. He was involved in the selection and acquisition of Cambridge based technical coating specialist
Tecvac in the late 1990’s. To build the business he initiated substantial investment, including relocation to a new purpose built factory, new equipment and the establishment of research, development and metallurgical laboratories equal to that of leading university metallurgical laboratories. The Wallwork Group has stayed a family owned business since it was first registered in 1959 as a heat treatment processor, moving to the Bury site in 1979. In 1984 the company acquired its first vacuum heat treatment furnaces and shortly after set up a foundry
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to produce heat resistant castings for its own use and sale.
More Information on Wallworth Heat Treatment t: +44 (0)161 797 9111 f: +44 (0)161 763 1861
simeoncollins@wallworkht.com www.wallworkht.com
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