[For Immediate Release - 21st August 2024]

British steel foundry Furniss & White has become the first company in the world to manufacture castings in the N'GENIUS Series^TM of High Strength Austenitic Stainless Steels.

A British steel foundry has become the first company in the world to manufacture castings using an innovative new series of high strength austenitic stainless steels.

Furniss & White, which specialises in high integrity stainless steel castings, fabrications and precision machining, signed a long-term agreement to produce its castings using high-performance alloys from the N'GENIUS Series^TM 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 to its customers.

The N'GENIUS Series^TM, 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^TM, 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 an extensive selection of cast products for wide application in sectors including oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, mining, marine, defence and power generation.

Sam Scholes, managing director at Furniss & White, said:

“For more than 44 years we have built a strong reputation as a high-quality British manufacturer of high integrity castings made in our modern foundry in the UK.

“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.

“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.”

The N'GENIUS Series^TM, which can be manufactured in both cast and wrought product forms, possesses all the typical benefits of conventional austenitic stainless steels including excellent ductility and toughness at ambient, sub-zero and cryogenic temperatures. But with vastly superior strength and corrosion resistance.

N'GENIUS is a complete family of grades which provide an extensive choice of high-performance, high strength austenitic stainless steels including materials which are cost-effective alternatives to certain nickel alloys. Suitable for all products, all service conditions and even the harshest of process media environments, N'GENIUS is the total system material.

Discover more about the N'GENIUS Series^TM at www.ngeniusmaterials.com and for further information about Furniss & White visit www.f-w-f.co.uk.

 

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Assets for use

> Pouring an N'GENIUS Series^TM grade into cast blocks for testing at Furniss & White (Foundries) Ltd

> Casting an N'GENIUS Series^TM grade into a sand mould at Furniss & White (Foundries) Ltd

> Pouring an N'GENIUS Series^TM grade from furnace into ladle at Furniss & White (Foundries) Ltd

> Pouring an N'GENIUS Series^TM grade into a cast block at Furniss & White (Foundries) Ltd

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Contact Details

Philip Roscoe - Communications
Email. philip.roscoe@ngeniusmaterials.com
Tel. +44 (0) 33 33 447 610

Paul Harrison - Sales Director
Email. paul.harrison@ngeniusmaterials.com
Tel. +44 (0) 33 33 447 602

 

About N'GENIUS Materials Technology
N'GENIUS Materials Technology, based in Cheshire, England in the United Kingdom, is a materials technology company, specialising in the invention of next-generation stainless steels. The N'GENIUS Series^TM of High Strength Austenitic Stainless Steels possesses a unique combination high mechanical strength along with superior resistance to corrosion. These properties provide engineers with superior engineering design characteristics to optimise the development of major projects throughout the world. The N'GENIUS Series^TM is the complete reinvention of austenitic stainless steels, designed specifically to out-perform, supersede and supplement many of the conventional 300 Series grades and the existing grades that are currently available for selection in international specifications such as ASTM cast and wrought specifications for a wide range of product forms, API Specification 5LC for CRA line pipe and DNV-ST-F101 standard for submarine pipelines systems along with the CRA Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) currently available for selection in the API Specification 5CRA for Corrosion-resistant Alloy Seamless Products for use as Casing, Tubing, Coupling Stock and Accessory Material.

For more information visit www.ngeniusmaterials.com

About Furniss & White (Foundries) Limited
Based in Sheffield, Furniss & White is a family-owned, independent, British steel foundry specialising in high integrity castings, fabrications and precision machining. Established in 1980, Furniss & White has sustained growth through outstanding quality and service. The company employs more than 110 people in five separate divisions and boasts a modern foundry specifically designed for the efficient manufacture of castings. The firm's extensive range of products has a wide application in the chemical, petrochemical, mining, oil exploration, marine and power generation industries. In addition to its QMS being certified to international standard ISO 9001: 2015, the company possesses manufacturing approvals from Norsok, DNV-GL, Lloyds Register and is an approved project supplier to BP, ExxonMobil, Equinor and Rolls Royce among others.

For more information visit www.f-w-f.co.uk.

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

1. Key Engineering Features of the N'GENIUS Series^TM include:
   
   
   • High Mechanical Strength with excellent Ductility and Toughness
   • Higher Allowable Design Stresses
   • Superior resistance to General Corrosion, Localised Corrosion, Erosion Corrosion, Stress Corrosion Cracking and Corrosion Fatigue relative to conventional Austenitic Stainless Steels
   • Excellent Toughness at Ambient, Sub-zero and Cryogenic temperatures
   • Distinct minimum Pitting Resistance Equivalent values for each Alloy Type, Variant and Grade Designation
2. Patent and Trademark protected in the following countries:
   
   Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, UK, USA and Vietnam, with international patents pending in India, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.