George Brown Engineering News Updates
The majority of our work is for “industrial” sites where the finish isn’t the most critical factor so long as it does what it’s supposed to do . On the other hand our sheet metal department regularly produces some high class products, finished to a high degree of polish. The pictures shows some of many […]
Factory pipework is a regular job for us installing or modifying pipework to all sorts of customers machinery. The pipes can be in all sorts of materials including aluminium, stainless steel, galvanised, carbon steel or different types of plastic. We recently completed a contract for one of our regular customers at their Durham site. The
Reel additions. We have been working with one of our larger customers supplying steelwork to support the end terminations of their products. We had to prefabricate steelwork to form large frames off the existing reels for them to support the terminations that weigh several tonnes. The intension is that the entire reel complete with the
Quarry Pumps. We recently fabricated some stainless-steel floatation chambers to suit different sizes of submersible pumps for use in a quarry dealing with water and slurry. We were supplied the pumps and fabricated tanks that allowed the pumps to be mounted centrally with the “pump” positioned beneath the surface. We shop tested the floats in
We recently made some small specialised machined components for a customer in Brazil, made from an alloy steel the components were machined in our semi-automatic machines prior to nitriding at a heat treatment specialist. One of the components was also zinc plated.The job was then parcelled up and collected by a courier for delivery in
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While being mainly a local engineering company we do undertake work for overseas contacts and clients. We have just completed a small machining job making eight heat treated “resato” connectors and a heat treated and zinc plated pusher for a Brazilian client.
Delighted that Ross Muir who we sponsor is doing well, he defeated George Pragnell 5-2 in the final to win the 2022/23 Q Tour Event 1 title. Ross made breaks of 57, 107, 50 and 66 in the title match at the North East Snooker Club in North Shields. Well done.
“Can you please pass on my thanks to Euan and his team for fixing my driveway bolts last week.This was probably a small job for your company and I was really pleased you could take this on for me.I only dropped the bolts into you on Monday and received them back on Wednesday and they
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We are delighted that local lad Ross Muir who we have been sponsoring for a few years, has succeeded in being promoted from snooker’s Q school to the professional world snooker tour. Ross appears on TV regularly playing around the world wearing his waste coat that carries the George Brown & Sons logo. Ross recently
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We have now got our new Plasma Cutting machine up and running that can plasma cut steel, stainless and aluminium plates up to 30mm thick. It can take a 2.5 x 1.25m plate. The operators are getting used to the programming but it also comes with an extensive library of templates that you modify the
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