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Welding and Fabrication

• Renowned for providing high quality bespoke solutions
• Working to precise specifications to achieve our clients' individual requirements. Complex, high integrity fabrications to exacting standards
• Produce a diverse range of products manufactured from numerous common and exotic materials

Pipework

• Earned an enviable reputation within the industry for delivery of complex fabricated pipework spools and piping systems
• Our customers look to us for solutions and early contract involvement covering a diverse range of process plant applications
• We are focussed on but not limited to the Nuclear, Chemical, Oil and Gas sectors

Tanks and Vessels

• Supply pressure vessels, tanks, heat exchangers, condensers and pipe systems to the UK nuclear industry's
• Stainless steel is the most common construction material
• Equipment is manufactured to the highest specification, ensuring all technical and safety aspects of each project are followed

Precision Machining

• In-house machining capability that provides precision machining, assembly and testing
• Enables us to provide a fully developed manufacturing process
• We are adept at upgrading existing clients components to new, more effective solutions

HVAC

• Manufacture and test complex High Integrity Containment systems
• Filter contaminated air to ensure the safety of those working in some of the most hazardous plants on the Sellafield site
• The scope can include all plant & equipment ranging from HEPA filter banks, air handling units, fans, extract cabinets, dampers, manufactured s/s ducting and impellors.

Volume Manufacturing

• Venturing into high-volume manufacturing with Bendalls as CMA
• Secured the 80 off 63 Can Fuel Racks project
• Developing volume manufacturing processes to ensure most efficient turn around of large order parts or products
• Look to de-skill the processes and increase technical solutions that will increase efficiencies reducing costs

Specifications

West Cumberland Engineering are committed to manufacturing within industry specifications and to the standards set by our clients and the industries they represent. We have been recognised for our dedication to adherence, recently being awarded the ROSPA Gold Medal Award and the first in the country to be awarded the Approved Supplier Certificate (Build 1) from Sellafield Ltd.

Detailed below is a comprehensive list of the Standards and Specifications that we work to.

Welders

BS EN 287-1: Qualification of Welders – Fusion Welding: Steels

BS EN ISO 9606-1: Qualification of Welders – Fusion Welding: Steels

BS EN ISO 9606-2: Qualification of Welders – Fusion Welding: Aluminium

ASME

ASME B313.3: Process Piping

ASME VIII: Boiler & Vessel Code

Nuclear Specific

ES_0_5391_2: Fabrication of Plant & Equipment (Stainless Steel) – Builds 1 & 2, Pipework; Build 1, Tanks; Builds 3 & 4, Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers

ES_0_5393_2: Fabrication of Plant & Equipment (Stainless and Carbon Steels) – Builds 3 to 6, Pipework

ES_0_5394_2: Fabrication of Plant & Equipment (Stainless and Carbon Steels) – General Duty

ES_0_5395_2: Fabrication of Plant & Equipment (Nickel Alloys)

Weld Procedures

BS EN ISO 15614-1: Qualification of Welding Procedures – Arc Welding: Steels and Nickel Alloys

BS EN ISO 15614-2: Qualification of Welding Procedures – Arc Welding: Aluminium

BS EN ISO 14555: Arc Stud Welding of Metallic Materials

Welding Processes

111 MMA (Manual Metal Arc Welding)

121 SAW (Submerged Arc Welding)

131 MIG (Metal Inert Gas Welding)

135 MAG (Metal Active Gas Welding – Solid Wire)

136 MAG (Metal Active Gas Welding – Flux Cored Wire)

141 TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas Welding – Manual)

141 Orbital TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas Welding – Liburdi Diametrics/AMI Arc)

141 Semi-Automatic TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas Welding – TIP-TIG)

783 Drawn Arc Stud Welding with Ceramic Ferrule

Inspection

All inspection personnel carrying out visual inspection and non-destructive testing are qualified to one or more of the following recognised certification schemes; PCN Level 2, CSWIP 3.1/3.2 and ICorr Painting Inspection Level 1

Non-Destructive Testing

• Visual Inspection
• Ultrasonic Testing
• Radiography
• Liquid Penetrant Testing
• Magnetic Particle Testing

Cutting Processes

• Air Plasma 1: up to 12mm
• Air Plasma 2: up to 38mm
• Oxy-propane/acetylene cutting
• Reciprocal Saws
• Guillotine 1: Width 3m, 12.5mm C/S 8mm S/S
• Guillotine 2: Width 2.5m, upto 3mm
• Pipe Cutter: Square cut, up to 80NB 3D and 4D

Forming Equipment

• Break Press: Width 3.1m, 150 Ton
• Plate Rollers: Width 3m, 3-20mm
• Pipe Bending: 15NB to 50NB

Jigs / Fixtures

• Rotary Manipulators (various sizes)
• Column and Boom: 4m x 4m
• Vessel/Tank Rollers: 20 ton, Width 3m

Materials

• Austenitic Stainless Steels (NAG, 304L, 316L, 316Ti, 321, 18-13-1, 235MA, 254SMO, Nitronic 60)
• Precipitation Hardened Stainless Steels (17/4 PH, FV520B)
• Martensitic Stainless Steels (S416S21)
• Duplex Steels (2205, Ferralium 255)
• Nickel Alloys (NiCu)
• Aluminium (6086 T6, 5083)
• Quenched and Tempered Steels (Dillimax 890T)
• Carbon Steels (S275/S355J2/S460, API 5L)
• Dissimilar: Combinations of the above materials