RENEWABLES, NUCLEAR, OIL AND GAS
Harness the power of innovation. Upstream and downstream product development and production solutions.
The energy, oil and gas sector, with their giant turbines, huge substations and giant steel cage fabrication epitomize the term ‘heavy industry’. It’s hard, then, to visualize how revolutionary technologies such as additive manufacturing and CNC machining can play a role in their progress.
But they do. With every bespoke solution there comes a need for prototyping and production. There’s also a need to improve efficiencies in the development process and keep costs down. Like all industries, time to market is critical.
We have been helping customers in the Energy, Oil and Gas sector develop their designs since 2003. Our technologies and materials encourage you to change the way you think about product innovation. They enable you to remove steps in your product development cycle and revolutionise your production processes. They enable you to shrink and flex your supply chain, and enhance the industrial products value chain.
While you need to be flexible and keep costs down for your clients, we can be flexible and keep costs down for you. And we’ll make sure you’re happy. Time and again.
Additive Manufacturing for Energy, Oil & Gas
Tool-free solutions for prototyping and production parts with complex geometries
Parts produced with additive manufacturing can be found across the industry, from undersea applications to rooftop photovoltaic installations. Parts need to be tough, robust and durable. They have to withstand the rigours of both environment and activity. With an array of materials designed to stand up to such rigours, Additive manufacturing gives you the chance to realise your design sooner. It enables you to explore fit and functionality options without incurring tooling costs. And now, with materials specifically designed for production, additive manufacturing can be used to produce end parts without thinking about tooling.
Design verification
Accelerate your product design phase for small component parts. AM allows you to customise endlessly and validate your parts before moving to engineering and manufacturing.
Production
Creating surrogate parts to check form and fit, particularly for applications requiring high temperatures and high levels of strength and durability. AM enables the engineer to design parts with variable wall thicknesses to increase strength to weight ratios.
Applications
Heat and corrosion-resistant functional parts; ducting and bellows; complex interlocking parts in low volumes. Suitability for renewables components such as solar parabolic concentrators, anemometer cups, junctions and electrical housing, channel fasteners and dials, knobs and buttons.
Rapid Technologies for Energy, Oil and Gas
Streamlined prototyping
Shorten production times for revolutionary ideas and enhance quality with a suite of rapid validation prototyping and testing services. Our services, including 3D printing, vacuum casting, reaction injection moulding and silicone casting, enable highly accurate, production-representative parts produced quickly and cost-effectively using low-cost tooling capabilities. Our materials include V0-rated plastics and polyurethanes, as well as those designed for deep sea usage and exposure to harsh environments.
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Validation Prototyping
Large print or build areas enable design engineers to produce high detail, robust, superbly finished, finely detailed concept models for testing. Materials are robust, transparent if required and suitable for harsh environments
Production
Fast, cost-effective production highly detailed, highly accurate polyurethane components and products with similar properties to injection moulded parts. Parts can be flexible or rigid. A wide range of materials, some with appropriate flammability ratings.
Applications
Typical applications include housings, casings, lenses and filter systems. Cleaning pigs, buoys, floats, seals, weather-resistant parts.
CNC Technologies for Energy, Oil and Gas
Redefine your supply chain. Achieve efficiency. Increase productivity.
We offer an array of CNC technologies enabling fast turnaround of parts and prototypes. We also provide competitively priced support for manufacturing with precision-crafted parts and products in a variety of materials, including tool and mould production, jigs, fixtures and gauges. Through a contract management process, our mission is to help you shorten your supply chain and enable you to meet progressively tough design and production challenges. This can be achieved in isolation or in collaboration with our Additive Manufacturing and Prototyping capabilities
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Validation Prototyping
Scaled, tangible digital image visualisation of component parts through CNC milling in a variety of materials. Providing samples for validation for engineering.
Pre-production
Working with you within stringent quality standards for complete confidence in achieving durable, stable and repeatable parts. Our gauges, jigs and fixtures are all manufactured on short lead times and competitively priced. Full validation reporting with FAROArm technology.
Applications
Component parts contract manufacturing for umbilical protection, sub sea apparatuses including RoVs, solar and turbine apparatuses, on and off shore facilities.
Case studies, articles, white papers and infographics
Infographic: Polymer AM for Robotics
This infographic highlights the benefits of polymer AM for applications in the robotics industry.
The Paragon Texturing Portfolio: Look Better, Feel Better
Paragon Rapid Technologies offers a portfolio of standard textures for additive manufacturing processes. Simply choose your texture and stipulate which faces require the application. Our design engineers will do the rest.
Carbon DLS polymer additive manufacturing for medical devices
Designing for Polymer Additive Manufacturing: Some Considerations
Infographic: Six Steps to Unlock the Power of Additive Manufacturing
Download our infographic. By following these steps, you can unlock the power of additive manufacturing and leverage its unique capabilities to enhance your product development, manufacturing processes, and overall business success.
Case Studies: Using HP MJF Additive Manufacturing in Automotive Engineering
The use of MJF in automotive applications with HP and Production Partners
Vacuum casting: a perfect low production run solution for automotive engineering
There’s no need to tell automotive design and mechanical engineers just how vacuum casting can be used for prototyping and low-volume production of plastic parts for their vehicles…