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A test house originally set up to support Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) internal work is now attracting more external customers than ever.  

The Vulcan SFM test house was established in January 2007, to service the testing requirements of the forge and the foundry at SFIL.

But in the last six months, a third of the test house’s work has been from outside SFIL with external customer spend increasing significantly in the four years to January 2011. The growth in the percentage of external contracts has grown steadily month by month.

Test house manager Ian Hunter, said: “We have been concentrating on our internal work to provide a good level of consistent service and this has then led to our external workload growing steadily because of our reputation for a quick and competent testing service.”

The Vulcan SFM test house is a modern and comprehensive facility where specific tests are carried out using state-of-the-art machinery for tensile, impact and hardness testing. It sits within the highly successful SFIL subsidiary company Vulcan SFM which offers bespoke design and manufacture of castings and forgings primarily for the offshore oil and gas sector.

The test house received its UKAS accreditation in March 2009 and the computer systems and certification software was updated in 2010.

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