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EUROPEANHEATHYARDS
FIG. 00 / BROWNHILLS, WEST MIDLANDS

High-integrity steel fabrication.
Nuclear-grade, since 1974.

Weld overlay cladding, coded welding and tube manipulation for the nuclear, defence and power sectors. Built and proven across 270,000 sq ft in Brownhills.

270,000SQ FT100TONNE LIFTF4NCERTIFIEDEST. 197452 YRS
Discuss a contractSee the capability

/ ON CONTRACT FOR

Blue-chip primes across nuclear, defence, power and petrochemical.

  • Rolls-Royce logo
  • BAE Systems logo
  • EDF logo
  • GE logo
  • BP logo
  • Esso logo
  • E.ON logo
  • Doosan logo
  • Alstom logo
  • Bombardier logo
  • Veolia logo
  • Suez logo
  • JCB logo
  • Westinghouse logo
  • Sheffield Forgemasters logo
  • Goodwin logo
The sealed 10,000 sq ft nuclear workshop with overhead cranes.
EDF logoNuclear

Pre-qualified for EDF nuclear supply

Achilles UVDB pre-qualification and a sealed 10,000 sq ft nuclear workshop, built in 2016 with biometric access and regular atmospheric ferrite testing. The kind of standing that is earned over years, not bought.

/ CAPABILITY REGISTER
  1. FIG. 01
    0
    SQ FT

    Eight purpose-built manufacturing workshops under one site.

  2. FIG. 02
    0
    TONNES

    Overhead crane lift capacity, from 5 tonne up.

  3. FIG. 03
    0
    HRS / YR

    Capable annual fabrication hours across the floor.

  4. FIG. 04
    0
    YEARS

    Fabricating high-integrity steel since 1974.

  5. FIG. 05
    0+
    BEND TOOLS

    Bend-radius tooling across twelve bending machines.

  6. FIG. 06
    0+
    WORKFORCE

    Time-served welders and engineers, many past 25 years' service.

/ WHAT WE FABRICATE

Five processes, kept under one roof.

Material in one door, finished and inspected out the other. Nothing subbed out where integrity is on the line.

Twin-head Fronius spiral cladding machines applying Inconel overlay under a blue arc.FIG. 01

Twin-head, twin-feed spiral cladding rigs. CMT overlay, Brownhills.

PROCESS 01

Weld overlay cladding

Inconel 625 and 686 weld overlay on the 360 degree spiral-wound machines. Cold Metal Transfer holds surface ferrite dilution to 0.55 percent, so the corrosion-resistant layer stays metallurgically clean. Two heads run day and night shift, with same-day turnaround on small quantities.

MATERIALS
Inconel 625 / 686
RANGE
31 to 850mm OD
LENGTH
Up to 14m
DILUTION
0.55% surface ferrite (CMT)
PROCESS
CMT spiral wound
A coded welder laying a root run under a bright arc with sparks across the weld pool.FIG. 02

Coded manual welding to ASME and BS EN ISO 3834-2.

PROCESS 02

High-integrity welding

Coded welders working to procedure across the full process set. Carbon and stainless through to duplex, super duplex, titanium and the chrome-moly creep-resistant grades P11, P22, P91, P92 and P911. Every joint is traceable to a qualified procedure and inspected before it leaves the floor.

PROCESSES
MMA / MIG / TIG
SAW / FCAW / CMT
STANDARD
BS EN ISO 3834-2
GRADES
P91 / P92 / Inconel
NACE
MR0175 sour service
Rows of close-pitch U-bent tube coils stacked for a heat-exchanger bundle.FIG. 03

U-tube bundle, close-pitch mandrel bending.

PROCESS 03

Tube and pipe manipulation

The core capability since 1974. Twelve bending machines and more than three thousand bend-radius tools, mandrel-capable down to tight 0.5D radii. Hot and cold bending from 6mm to 219mm outer diameter, feeding heat-exchanger bundles, superheater pendants and pipework manifolds.

MACHINES
12 bending
TOOLS
3,000+ bend radii
RANGE
6 to 219mm OD
RADIUS
Tight 0.5D tooling
FORM
Hot and cold
Two fabricators cutting and dressing a thick drilled steel plate fabrication.FIG. 04

Heavy plate fabrication, bench to 100-tonne lift.

PROCESS 04

Plate fabrication and heavy lifts

Plate and structural fabrication from the bench up to single 100-tonne lifts. Shearing to 20mm, pressing and rolling to 30mm, thermal cutting to 100mm thick. Pressure vessels, steam drums, tanks, silos and structural steel base plates, built and dressed in one place.

LIFT
To 100 tonnes
SHEAR
To 20mm thick
FORM
Roll / press to 30mm
CUT
Thermal to 100mm
PRESS
300T press brake
A welder working a tight root run by hand in low light, chalk dimension marks above.FIG. 05

In-house inspection. Secure internal X-ray bay.

PROCESS 05

NDT and radiography

Inspection kept in-house and under control. A secure internal X-ray bay for radiography, plus ultrasonic thickness checking, dye penetrant inspection, demagnetising and regular atmospheric ferrite testing in the nuclear facility. Proof of integrity travels with the part.

RADIOGRAPHY
Internal X-ray bay
ULTRASONIC
Thickness / weld
DPI
Dye penetrant
FERRITE
Atmospheric testing
DEMAG
On site
/ THE QUALITY DOSSIER

The stamps most fabricators never get.

Accreditation is the moat. Each of these took years to earn and is audited to keep. The rare ones sit at the top because almost no fabricator of this size holds them together.

RARE / 01
F4N
Fit For Nuclear

The UK nuclear industry's own readiness measure. Granted after a structured assessment of quality, capability and resilience. Few fabricators of this size hold it.

RARE / 02
ISO 19443
Nuclear Quality Management

The nuclear-specific quality standard built on ISO 9001. Required to supply items important to nuclear safety. A serious barrier to entry on its own.

RARE / 03
ASME
U / S / PP / R Stamps

American pressure-equipment code stamps for vessels, boilers, pressure piping and repairs. Rare for a UK fabricator to carry all four.

FULL REGISTER
  • ISO 9001Quality Management
  • ISO 14001Environmental Management
  • ISO 27001Information Security
  • ISO 45001Health & Safety
  • BS EN 1090-1Steel Structures, EXC 2
  • BS EN ISO 3834-2Welding Quality
  • JOSCARDefence Supply Chain
  • UVDB SilverAchilles Utilities
  • UVDB AuditAchilles Audit
  • Cyber EssentialsNCSC Baseline
  • Cyber Essentials PlusNCSC Certified
  • NACE MR0175Sour Service
  • CE PED Mod GPressure Equipment
/ SECTORS WE SERVE

Where the work cannot fail.

Wide clean-conditions nuclear fabrication workshop with overhead cranes.S1
LEAD SECTOR

Nuclear

F4N certified. A 10,000 sq ft sealed nuclear workshop, purpose-built in 2016, with biometric access and two 10-tonne cranes. Pre-qualified by Achilles UVDB for EDF.

Bright workshop bay with welding manipulator columns and crane rails.S2

Defence

JOSCAR-registered for the defence and aerospace supply chain. High-integrity work for blue-chip primes including BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce.

Tall membrane tube wall of a radiant chamber under scaffold.S3

Power Generation

Superheaters, membrane wall panels, headers, economisers and Inconel overlay panels for coal, oil, gas and waste-to-energy stations.

A large pressure vessel leaving the Heathyards facility on heavy haulage.S4

Petrochemical

More than 45 years on gas and oil feedstocks across subsea, surface and land. Heat exchangers, shell and tube, high-pressure pipework.

Low-NOx burner assembly in fabrication.S5

Environmental

Biomass plants, incinerators and waste-to-energy recycling across the UK and Europe. Inconel-overlaid membrane panels and biomass silos.

Heavy pipe section under hydraulic test in the workshop.S6

Offshore

Over 45 years of high-integrity welded pressurised pipework and structural steel base plates for offshore oil and gas.

Bored and dressed pipe section ready for high-integrity water pipework.S7

Water

Water treatment silos and water tube boilers, fabricated and pressure-tested. Tanks, silos and high-integrity pressurised pipework for the water sector.

/ PROCESS FILM, FIG. 06

Watch the cladding bay run.

Spiral-wound weld overlay, applied live. Two heads, twin feed, day and night shift. This is Inconel going down at 0.55 percent dilution.

/ PROJECT RECORD

The floor, documented.

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ESTABLISHED
1974
52 years on the same floor

Engineering high-integrity steel fabrication in the West Midlands since 1974.

Heathyards started as a tube manipulation shop and grew into one of the few UK fabricators trusted with nuclear-grade work. The capability was built the slow way: people, plant and accreditation, added over decades rather than bought in.

In 2016 the sealed nuclear workshop went up. In 2017 the Fit For Nuclear assessment was passed. The ASME code stamps, ISO 19443 and JOSCAR registration sit alongside it. A number of the welders on the floor today have served the company more than 25 years.

That continuity is the point. When the work cannot fail, the people who built it last time are still here to build it again.

2016
Nuclear workshop built
2017
Fit For Nuclear passed
25+ YRS
Typical welder service
/ START A CONTRACT

Send us the drawing.

Tell us the material, the process and the tolerance. You will get a straight answer from someone who works the floor, not a sales script.

EMAIL
sales@heathyards.com
PHONE
+44 (0)1543 376 754+44 (0)1543 452 645
WORKS
31-32 Maybrook Road
Brownhills, West Midlands
WS8 7DG, United Kingdom
SHIFTS
Cladding bay runs day and night shift