Type of work Foundations, structural steelwork, mechanical and electrical equipment specification and design for the following:

• Scrap storage and processing system designs.
• Scrap handling, transfer and melting furnace charging equipment: Crane and below hook equipment specification, scrap charging basket and scrap weighing systems and transfer carriage designs.

• Melting furnace modifications and ancillary equipment design, alloys storage, weighing and charging equipment specification, ladle and tundish preheating station and wrecking station designs.
• Oxy-carbon lance - investigation, selection and recommendation.
• Patented Oxy-fuel melting furnace design and implementation.
• Furnace tapping equipment design: hot metal crane design, hot metal ladle and ladle hook design.
• Melting furnace utilities and equipment design, re-circulating water cooling systems and controls, hydraulic and pneumatic system design including specialist equipment design, compressed air generation, conditioning, storage and distribution system design, liquefied gas bulk storage, conditioning and distribution pipework design.
• Melting furnace and building fume extraction plant sizing and water-cooled and single skin extraction ductwork design, air pollution control equipment sizing and specification.
• Special purpose equipment design.
• Hot Semi-finished product processing, handling, cooling and transfer equipment specification and design.

• Intermediate product storage buildings storage and rolling mill charging crane specifications, below hook equipment specification.
• Rolling mill reheating furnace charging and discharging equipment specification and design, reheating furnace sizing, design and conversion, combustion systems design and control, furnace area PLC control programming and implementation.
• Rolling mill equipment design: millstand, roll assemblies, mill guides, drive-shafts, pinion gearboxes, pinch rolls, heavy duty conveyors and transfer equipment, snap shears, hydraulic and pneumatic system design.
• Rolling mill layouts, roll pass design for rods, bars and flat sections.
• PSW rolling mill project, plant layout and purpose built equipment designs.
• Production efficiency investigations and rolling schedule improvement recommendations on existing rolling mill facilities.
• Rolling mill PLC control and specialist machine FORTH single board computer programming and implementation. SCADA system implementation.
• Rolling mill finishing foundations and product transfer equipment.

• On-line quenching system design for rods and bars.
• Utilities design for water cooling, compressed air, oil hydraulics, natural gas, oxygen, nitrogen.
• Finished product storage and despatch structural steel building and foundation design, crane specification and despatching equipment layout and design.
• Road and rail weighbridge specification and foundation design.
• Automated beam welding facility - plant layout and foundation design.

Clients

• Al-Ittefaq, Saudi Arabia
• Alphasteel Ltd., Newport.
• Al-Tuwairqi Group (ATG), Sharjah.
• ASW Sheerness PLC, Sheerness.
• Avesta Sheffield, Avasta, Sweden.
• AZE, Egypt.
• British Steel Corporation, Llanwern and Port Talbot.
• Consolidated Management Services, Liberia.
• Commercial Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Davy McKee, Sheffield.
• Ferriera Siderumba SpA, Atigliano, Italy.
• Halyvourgiki, Elefsis, Greece.
• Indore Steel and Iron Mills, Indore, India.
• ISCOR Ltd., Vanderbijlpark, RSA.
• ISTIL (UK), Queenborough, Kent.
• ISTIL (USA), Milton, Pennsylvania.
• McLellan, West Byfleet.
• Metabrasive, Bilston, West Midlands.
• Metalfer, Serbia.
• Partap Steel Rolling Mill, Cheharta, Amritsar, India.
• Queenborough Rolling Mill, Queenborough, Kent.
• Syrian Metal Industries.
• Thamesteel, Sheerness, Kent.
• Tube and Pipe Industries (PVT), Harare, Zimbabwe.
• UED, Sheffield.