AboutGilwood (Fabricators) Company Limited
Established in 1964 by Luke Gilmartin, Gilwood (Fabricators) Company Limited started out by producing high quality textile machinery for the local textile industry. On the decline of the industry, Gilwood expanded into the stainless-steel fabrication sector where we have built up an excellent reputation over 50 years trading as one of the leading pressure vessel and process plant equipment manufacturers in the UK.
Gilwood is a family-run business based in Heywood, Greater Manchester, within easy reach of the M62 motorway. Over the decades Gilwood has established its self as a leading fabricator of stainless steel and nickel alloys. We have a proven track record as technical experts in the mechanical design and fabrication of bespoke process plant and equipment to serving various industries including petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, chemicals, nuclear, paper, glass, and food industries.
Gilwood manufacture pressure vessels of low, medium, and high pressure with sizes ranging from 1 Litre capacity up to 200,000 Litre and design pressures ranging from 0.5 Bar G to 1000 Bar G with a wall thickness from 2mm to 150mm. We apply the same precision and engineering excellence throughout the whole of our extensive range of services. Our strengths lie in technically complex projects including the fabrication of pressure vessels and process plant equipment, as well as scrubber and skid packages. We regularly work with CuNi Pipework, Super Duplex, and Hastelloy and have a vast library of weld procedures in place to cover this type of work.
Our purpose-built factories are fully-equipped with a wide range of fabrication and machining equipment, and we have the capabilities to mechnically design, manufacture, test and inspect all products prior to dispatch. As an SME we are versatile and able to operate to technical standards up to and including grade 1 nuclear projects. We specialise in bespoke manufacture, but are capable of undertaking batch production. Our impressive portfolio of work is testimony to our commitment to high-quality value-added engineering.
At Gilwood our specialist team of welders are coded to ASME IX and BS EN 287 and 288 in TIG, MIG, and Manual Metal Arc, and are continuously engaged in work on pressure vessels to PD 5500, EN 13445, ASME VIII Div 1 and 2. We take enormous pride in our quality assurance and standards and hold formal independent approval of BS EN 9001:2015 from Lloyds Register. In addition, we hold independent approvals for ASME 'U' Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, as well as ASME VIII DIV 1 and other international manufacturing design codes including but not limited to ISPESL and Stoomwezen.
Gilwood maintain and update our software to enable us to design and implement bespoke quotation and project management programmes, making our turnaround of quotations efficient and competitive. Our highly-skilled team of design/project engineers use the latest technology and software to ensure we provide a quality service you can trust for the manufacture of specialised fabrications across a wide range of industries and sectors.
We are committed to providing customer satisfaction and maintain excellent relationships and formal and informal partnership agreements with several multi-national companies. Our highly-skilled team of craftsmen and engineers have the knowledge, experience and expertise to carry out a vast range of specialist fabrications to suit all industries and requirements.