Brooks Forgings Ltd

A specialist company for a specialist job, that’s what Brooks do best!

After several competitors had declined the job, we were asked to produce large 3” diameter U-bolts which had to be produced in a specially built furnace to achieve our clients exact requirements. Uniform heat was required throughout the whole bend area, and we did it!

Why not make Brooks the first company you turn to for your next project.

Speak to one of our team for details on how we could help you!

A client approached us armed with a photograph taken from a recent issue of the popular ‘Grand Designs’ magazine asking if we could reproduce a scroll and a leaf from the image for their fencing project.

We agreed to take on the project which took around 6-8 weeks in all. We produced 120 of each item all made by hand to their exact requirements.

We can replicate ironwork from photos and samples.

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It’s not every day you get approached to manufacture components used in the assembly of the latest supercars that grace our roads.

We were pleased to be given the opportunity to manufacture and supply bonnet catches for McLaren Motorsport.

Forged blanks were produced and further machined with 2 fixing holes and a mushroom head to prevent the bonnet from popping up whilst driving at speed.

You know you’re in safe hands when dealing with Brooks Forgings.

We were awarded the contract to fulfil the component supply element of the fencing project for a prestige residential development in London.

Being a grade 1 listed building, it was not practical for our client to alter the existing brick columns which were different distances apart. Working from detailed drawings, Brooks set about the task of producing horizontal bars ranging from 2676 to 3708mm in length, cold punched through 60 x 20mm section with up to 41 different fixing settings and up to 41 different punching patterns along their varying lengths. These bars were punched with a 22mm square hole.

Added to this, scrollwork with some 6 different templates and short railheads were required to finish the detail and all produced at the Brooks manufacturing centre in Cradley Heath in the West Midlands. Over 43 tons of steel was forged for phase 1 of the project…a great success!

Brooks Forgings is proud to announce that it is the first company to be issued with ISO 9001, EN1090 and EN15048 by Lloyds Register.

This is to comply with the Construction Products Regulation 305/2011. The combination of all three approvals means that our customers can purchase foundation bolting assemblies from one source with improved lead times and in full compliance with CE regulations. This gives us a greater scope of coverage than most other companies supplying the Construction and Civil Engineering sectors.

Compliance with EN1090-1 enables us to fabricate outer assemblies and the recent addition of EN15048 enables the hot forging and machining of non-preloaded structural foundation bolts. This demonstrates that we have undergone a rigorous audit, where our capability to comply with the current best practices employed in the Construction and Civil Engineering sector was reviewed in detail.

What is the Construction Products Regulation CPR 305/2011?

The Construction Products Regulation (CPR 305/2011) applies to manufacturers, distributors and fabricators of construction products within the European economic area.

To successfully comply with these regulations companies must undergo an assessment by a notified body such as Lloyd’s Register, and prove their systems and products are fully compliant with all aspects of these regulations. If the organisation is successful they are then awarded the CPR Certification. This enables them to mark their products with CE Marking indicating their processes and products are fully in compliance and can be marketed across the region without additional testing or barriers to trade.

Brooks Forgings Ltd was recently asked to produce a quanyity of special lifting assemblies, used to safely lift and relocate heavy industrial stillages.

The client was originally sourcing components from abroad and was let down on a critical delivery.

Brooks Forgings stepped in to provide an on time solution that was aided by the comprehensive on-site manufacturing capabilities available.

The assembly comprises of a chain link and eye bolt, produced from high tensile material. The M20 eye bolt was designed and manufactured to operate with a working load limit of 2 tonne. Drop forged, machined and threaded in-house. The chain link, manufactured from 20mm diameter material, was hot bent and flash butt welded which allows for heat treatment following the process.

Once assembled, each component was tensile tested to provide the necessary certification required by our customer.

The order was fulfilled on time and excess stock held in our warehouse for future call off orders.

Brooks Forgings Ltd have been approached to manufacture special arching horns that are used in overhead electrification applications for the rail industry.

Sawing, machining, hot bending and welding processes was used to manufacture the components used in the arching horn assembly. Brooks Forgings has all of these processes available at their manufacturing site in Stourbridge, West Midlands. This ensures the swift turnaround and quality tolerances required by the customer.

The components were produced from certified 316 stainless steel material of European origin. The profiles were manufactured from 6mm thick plate and required the machining of special chamfered edges prior to the hot bending process. The bending process required specially designed tooling and jigs to minimise deformation and meet strict tolerances. The profiles were fillet welded to a clamping block that was produced firstly as a one piece, drilled with two 10.5mm holes and a large 24mm hole, and then sawn in half to create a matching pair. The complete assembly was fully inspected for distortion following the welding process. Supplied complete with A2 stainless bolts, washers and stiff nuts.