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Over the last couple of months, we have taken delivery of some new machine tools to replace some older machines that were needing upgraded. A new larger press brake has been installed that has a capacity of 200 tonnes over the 3m blade length which will allow us to form 12mm thick plate over the […]

We are used to working in all sorts of different expensive materials but there are always anxious moments when you have to order up almost 2 ½ tonnes of marine grade stainless steel for a single component. This job required a 50mm thick base plate, 25mm plate stiffeners and a 7.5m long 18” tube to

After seeing the decline of manufacturing in Leith over many decades,  it is excellent that Forth Ports £150m investment in their new renewables’ facility has come to fruition with the first delivery from China of the first eight XXL Monopiles for the Inchcape project. Each of the monopiles is up to 103 metres long, 11.5m

We are delighted that we continue to sponsor our local professional snooker player Ross Muir.   Ross continues to wear the George Brown & Sons logo around the globe competing on the world snooker tour. While we work in and around the local area (Scotland) , Ross competes almost continually worldwide , recently in China, Europe,

Recently we have manufactured various aluminium flanged sections of pipe to enable our customer to demonstrate their sealing systems at exhibitions and training days.  These systems are used in all industries where pipelines require to be isolated for intervention works and the associated isolation  valves are defective or are’nt fitted. Along with the section of

We assisted our client with the careful dimensioning for the purchase of a 14m long replacement Archimedes screw conveyor that is used to move cement from their storage shed to a discharge hopper. The work had to be carried out over a weekend to eliminate down time to their facility. The new screw was assembled

We have just completed the supply and fitting of lift pipes, scoops, scrapers and troughs  at the Seafield WWTW.  Corosion is one of the main concerns with this equipment and the components are either galvanised or painted with a special paint sytem. The primary settlement tank is where all the sewers empty into so prior

We have been working for the past few weeks making support frames and counterbalance arrangements for a large reel being shipped out to Australia. The support steelwork was delivered and eventually fitted to the reel and umbilical terminations once the umbilical was completed. Final fitting was carried out over ten days working around the clock

Our Automotive Department undertakes machining work for a huge number of different diesel and petrol  engine types and with the steady increase in the number of electrically powered vehicles   we don’t really expect to get new types of heads requiring machining. However we recently received a cylinder head from a   Nissan Qashqai that required set