Newcastle

Today the Company is heavily involved in all aspects of the sub contract heat treatment sector, operating 7 days a week dependant on customer need with a highly flexible and skilled workforce.

The Company has completed a major investment with the installation of deep carburising pit furnaces that are able to process parts 1.8m long and 1.1m in diameter. Investment has also been seen in salt bath nitrocarburising (Tufftride) with the site now operating 3 baths that are 900 mm deep and 700mm diameter with further capability in nitrocarburising (Tufftride) being installed later in 2024 that will accommodate parts 600mm diameter and 1.5m long.

Induction heat treatment was added to the Company's process capabilities in 1984 with the purchase of a high frequency motor generator set and several radio frequency units. Continuous investment has seen this sector grow to such an extent that the current inventory contains over 25 pieces of induction equipment which includes vertical and horizontal scanners, shaft and pin hardeners. Additionally our Company can claim an extensive range of innovative purpose built ancillaries constructed in-house by our own engineers.

As a result of this comprehensive array of equipment Wallwork Newcastle Ltd can offer a broad range of heat treating services which include: austempering, martempering, though hardening, carburising and annealing, normalising, stress relieving, ageing, induction hardening and tempering, flame hardening, vacuum hardening, tool steel hardening, and austhenitic nitrocarburising. In addition to carbon and alloy steels the Company has the capability to process cast irons, copper and nickel based alloys, heat resistant alloys, sintered material tool and die steels and a range of stainless steels.

Now with the integration in to the Wallwork Group and the linking to the other sites with regular internal transport more processing capabilities are available to both the North East customers and the current Wallwork Heat Treatment customers that are on the groups transport network. The ability of a customer in South Wales for instance to simple pick up the phone and ask for a collection that would then see the work being delivered in to the North East site for one of their speciality processes is very beneficial for the customer and for us  as a company in this service industry.