Posted Date: 02/11/2011
There have been some very interesting developments in the Oil and Gas Industry in recent months not least the demand to improve the quality, integrity and compliance of nut supplies.
Beck Prosper Ltd (BPL) has been serving the petrochemical and energy industries as a high integrity bolting manufacturer for over forty years but has previously never had the need to manufacture its own nuts by the forging process.
BPL has always machined nuts in-house where higher quality is required and purchased commercially produced forged nuts for most petrochemical and general fastener requirements since this is a significantly more cost effective method for volume manufacture. Product selection by the clients has usually been dictated by commercial constraints.
BPL historically enjoyed close relations with many European suppliers who manufactured high quality forged nuts to ASTM standards however most of these sources have subsequently either closed or become distributors for Far Eastern products due to the commercial demands of the industry.
BPL decided in 2001 that it should deal directly with these Far Eastern sources and subsequently set up testing facilities in China to test products throughout manufacture and prior to despatch. BPL developed close relationships with carefully selected manufacturers who were willing to work to our stringent testing regime and with sources capable of producing quality products for our downstream markets, such as ASTM A194 2H, so that our supply chain for these items is not compromised. Around two years ago the Subsea sector started to ask for a higher integrity fastener with more demanding properties and an improved …
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