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Defence

There are several specialist areas for which NovaCast has acquired an excellent reputation, such as in the foundry casting of valve and pump components across many industries. The depth of experience within the business allows the NovaCast team to advise on and manufacture a very wide range of cast products in many different metals. The list of casting solutions that NovaCast has delivered and the range of industries served over the years is extensive. These include the defence market where cast components for fighting vehicles and the latest Royal Navy ships have been supplied.

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Oil & Gas

NovaCast has been providing harsh environment castings to the Offshore Petrochemical Industry for many years. We operate a quality management system in accordance with its ISO9001:2015 certification and tests to international or customer specified standards, using a wide variety of mechanical, chemical and NDT techniques, including X-ray, ultrasound, dye penetration, pressure testing and many others.

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Pump Components

The casting, machining, balancing and finishing of pump components, particularly bodies and impellers, is one of NovaCastâ€™s core strengths. Often cast in aluminium, stainless steel, carbon steel and brass, they are used in centrifugal pumps for waste water, fire pumps, submersible pumps and slurry pumps. Components are quality checked according to our ISO 9001:2015 quality management system and meet international quality standards.

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Valve Components

The casting, machining and finishing of valve components is one of NovaCastâ€™s core activities. Our valve castings include components cast in materials such as aluminium, stainless steel and gun metal. They can be found in many industries, including offshore oil & gas, petrochemicals, automotive, solids handling, agriculture, railway, marine, nuclear and commercial heating.

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Sustainability

Waste, pollution, high energy usage, toxic emissions and the like have been the norm for many years but companies with more enlightened leadership, such as NovaCast, are starting to show how things can be done differently, and better.

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Quality

It is no coincidence that NovaCast has a reputation for providing consistently high quality machined and finished castings. Quality assurance and testing is as much a core capability as metallurgy and casting expertise.

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Casting Processes

Casting processes available from NovaCast now include sand, shell mould, gravity & pressure die, investment, silica sol and lost foam casting. With materials ranging from specialist aluminium and copper-based alloys to high-grade stainless steels, NovaCast has the ability to support our customersâ€™ most demanding requirements.

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