Furniss & White, which specialises in stainless steel castings, fabrications and precision machining, has 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.
N’Genius says its 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 cast products for wide application in sectors including oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, mining, marine, defence and power generation.
“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,” said Sam Scholes, managing director at Furniss & White. “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.”
