A precision engineering business supplying premium-quality spare parts to the aviation sector wanted to reduce raw material costs while maintaining critical design requirements, including cleanliness and fatigue resistance.
Hillfoot’s metallurgists reviewed the application and worked with our specialist steel producers to develop an air-melted steel specification as an alternative to the more expensive remelted material.
The new specification was extensively tested to verify its quality and performance.
The customer benefited from:
Significant raw material cost savings
Required cleanliness and fatigue resistance maintained
A more cost-effective material specification
Technical validation before use
The outcome
By challenging the existing specification, Hillfoot enabled the customer to move from remelted to lower-cost air-melted steel without compromising the application’s design requirements.
