Metals Case Studies

David Brown has produced a variety of work in the metals industry and below are various examples of what we can offer you.

  • Unifloc Corus
  • Unifloc Corus
  • A tight schedule for the construction of a replacement boom for a stacker at Corus Strip Products Port Talbot Works meant David Brown needed to deliver bang on time. The busy schedule of operations meant that David Brown had to commit to delivering on the agreed date if the whole of the project was to be on time.
  • Timet Metals
  • Timet Metals
  • A lubrication and consequent catastrophic failure on a hot rolling mill gearbox required timely intervention to keep expensive downtime to a minimum at a plant in the UK which produces titanium alloy for the aerospace industry.
  • Signode Metals
  • Signode Metals
  • Oil loss coupled with the potential risk of gear failure was a major issue with the existing gearbox on a steel coil cold reversing mill operated by Signode, a world leader in the supply of tensional steel strapping for heavy duty packaging and palletized delivery and a division of Illinois Tool Works in America.
  • Key Plant New Build
  • Key Plant New Build
  • Key Plant's critical heavy duty solution turnkey solution for SIF Group needed the best gear units on the market in terms of performance, durability and reliability and so turned to David Brown.
  • Jindal Steel
  • Jindal Steel
  • JSW Steel Ltd in India planned an important upgrading of its hot strip mill facilities while demanding the minimum disruption to production, so David Brown replacment gearboxes were installed.
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