Meeting your changing needs
Our plate profiling centre's unique combination of oxy-gas, high-definition plasma and laser steel plate profiling capabilities, combined with state-of-the-art flattening presses, machining centres, edge finishing and press brakes, provide an integrated offering you can rely on.
Under a single roof, the centre offers:
• the latest plate profiling technologies
• comprehensive finishing facilities
• access to the widest range of steel grades
We can combine selections of parts into kits. This ensures the exact required parts are presented to a fabrication or assembly process - removing the need for you to sort and aggregate parts from stocks.
As part of our commitment to meeting customers’ changing needs, we recently invested over £3m to ensure our profiling centre remains a centre of excellence for profiling steel plate, including the latest plasma profiling units and machining centres that extend both our capability and capacity.
Processing capability
The plate profiling centre provides a full-service capability to plate-consuming customers.
The configuration of profiling and finishing operations under a single roof ensures the most appropriate and cost-effective process route is employed for each customer’s requirements.
- Plate width
Max
(mm) Plate length Max
(mm) Plate Thickness Max
(mm) - Comments
| Oxy-Gas Profiling | 5700 | 20000 | 170 | Best suited to profiling thicker plates |
| High-Definition Plasma Profiling | 5000 | 20000 | 55 | Outstanding capability from five machines capable of cutting ‘bolt-ready’ holes |
| Laser Profiling | 2500 | 8000 | 20 | High precision cutting of lighter plate or sheet from two machines |
| Flattening Press | - | - | 60 | Flattening down to 2mm / m deviation from three machines |
| Machining Centres | 970 | 2300 | 170 | High precision finishing of profiled components from five machines |
| Edge finishing | - | - | 150 | Off-line mechanical bevelling from nine machines |
| Press Brakes | 3600 | 800 | 300 | 300t capacity press braking from two machines |
- Plate width
Max
(mm) Plate length Max
(mm) Plate Thickness Max
(mm) - Comments
| Oxy-Gas Profiling | 5700 | 20000 | 170 | Best suited to profiling thicker plates |
| High-Definition Plasma Profiling | 5000 | 20000 | 55 | Outstanding capability from five machines capable of cutting ‘bolt-ready’ holes |
| Laser Profiling | 2500 | 8000 | 20 | High precision cutting of lighter plate or sheet from two machines |
| Flattening Press | - | - | 60 | Flattening down to 2mm / m deviation from three machines |
| Machining Centres | 970 | 2300 | 170 | High precision finishing of profiled components from five machines |
| Edge finishing | - | - | 150 | Off-line mechanical bevelling from nine machines |
| Press Brakes | 3600 | 800 | 300 | 300t capacity press braking from two machines |
Designed to undertake primary plate processing for renewable energy applications, our Wind Tower Hub capability complements the Plate Profiling Centre.
- Plate width
Max
(mm) Plate length Max
(mm) Plate Thickness Max
(mm) - Comments
| Oxy-Gas Profiling | 5700 | 20000 | 170 | Large size plate processing inc. direct edge bevelling,, from three machines |
| Edge finishing | - | - | 60 | Detailed edge finishing from one slag grinder and five edge bevellers |
- Plate width
Max
(mm) Plate length Max
(mm) Plate Thickness Max
(mm) - Comments
| Oxy-Gas Profiling | 5700 | 20000 | 170 | Large size plate processing inc. direct edge bevelling,, from three machines |
| Edge finishing | 5000 | 20000 | 55 | Detailed edge finishing from one slag grinder and five edge bevellers |
- Oxy-Gas Profiling
- Plate width: 5700 Max (mm) Plate length: 20000 Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 170 Max (mm)
- Comments
- Best suited to profiling thicker plates
- High-Definition Plasma Profiling
- Plate width: 5000 Max (mm) Plate length: 20000 Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 55 Max (mm)
- Comments
- Outstanding capability from five machines capable of cutting ‘bolt-ready’ holes
- Laser Profiling
- Plate width: 2500 Max (mm) Plate length: 8000 Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 20 Max (mm)
- Comments
- High precision cutting of lighter plate or sheet from two machines
- Flattening Press
- Plate width: --Max (mm) Plate length: -- Max (mm) Plate Thickness:60 Max (mm)
- Comments
- Flattening down to 2mm / m deviation from three machines
- Machining Centres
- Plate width: 970Max (mm) Plate length: 2300 Max (mm) Plate Thickness:170 Max (mm)
- Comments
- High precision finishing of profiled components from five machines
- Edge finishing
- Plate width: 2500 Max (mm) Plate length: 8000 Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 20 Max (mm)
- Comments
- Off-line mechanical bevelling from nine machines
- Press Brakes
- Plate width: 3600 Max (mm) Plate length: 800 Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 30 Max (mm)
- Comments
- 300t capacity press braking from two machines
- Oxy-Gas Profiling
- Plate width: 8500 Max (mm) Plate length: 24000 Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 170 Max (mm)
- Comments
- Large size plate processing inc. direct edge bevelling,, from three machines
- Edge finishing
- Plate width:--Max (mm) Plate length: -- Max (mm) Plate Thickness: 150 Max (mm)
- Comments
- Detailed edge finishing from one slag grinder and five edge bevellers
Further processing can be undertaken either by Tata Steel, or with our partners, including shotblasting/priming and heat treatment.
Efficient processing service
The plate profiling centre is a centre of excellence for the profiling of steel plate. It is located at Steelpark near Wolverhampton, one of Europe’s largest steel service centres.
When customers share their part specifications, we are able to interpret the design and tolerances to ensure the most appropriate processing routes and part nesting. It means you benefit from the most efficient use of material and processing time. Utilising our economy of scale and scope can ensure customers receive the most efficient processing service.
By supplying parts on a ‘just in time’ or Kanban basis we can greatly simplify customer supply chains - and help you limit the resources tied up in stock and floor space.
