Goodwin Steel Castings melting facility alloys molten metal to international standards and to propriety specifications, which yield enhanced mechanical and metallurgical properties.

Our melting facilities provide molten metal for casting manufacture and the production of ingots for feedstock and forgings, in a range of iron, steel, cobalt and nickel based alloys.
Material segregation and melt sequencing is employed, preventing cross-contamination and ensuring high Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

The facility offers primary melting utilising Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF), Induction High Frequency (IHF) furnaces and secondary Argon Oxygen Decarburisation (AOD) refinement. Inert gas melting and ladle treatment achieves chemical compositions
susceptible to atmospheric degradation.

Goodwin Steel Castings has invested in state of the art laboratory equipment to analyse the chemical composition and residual gas contents of in-process molten metal
precisely. Known chemical standards are key to equipment calibration and process security in which a diverse range of standards are maintained by the melt shop.

The metal making techniques employed within our melting facility are world leading. The practices and procedures employed are identical for all melting activity, regardless of the final application, even for class one nuclear material.

Our apprenticeship programme is fundamental to ensuring that our long standing metal making knowledge and skillset is appropriately transferred to the next generation of
foundry engineers, ensuring continuity for the long running, highly technical programmes of work that we support.

Our melting facility recycles metals in the form of revert, in which the intrinsic material value is recovered through consolidation melting and/or secondary AOD refining.
The refined material is homogeneous and can be delivered in ingots and billets to suit customer requirements, typically 15Kg to 25,000Kg. As a circular economy recycler, we
provide a sustainable service for commodity alloys.

The melting facility is an industrial energy user in which the process efficiency defines the carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions. As part of our energy management system to ISO 50001, the electrical energy usage is monitored and is subject to a process of continuous improvement. Green House Gas (GHG) emissions are
continuously monitored throughout the melting and refining processes.