William Cook Cast Products

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1 William Cook Cast Products a World Class Company

2 World Class principles I am proud of William Cook. I built it up almost from scratch. To me the letters WC stand for World Class. I believe we are, and we can prove it to our customers. Andrew Cook CBE Chairman Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The Cook guiding principles. William Cook is a large UK-based engineering company. It started as a steel casting manufacturer and steel castings still form the basis of 99% of William Cook s products. But William Cook has advanced far beyond the classic low-tech metal basher. The bulk of William Cook s products now are sophisticated components, assemblies and systems for a huge range of applications. William Cook prefers to design and manufacture its products in-house. This retains control, and reduces reliance on sub-contractors. To assist this, William Cook has substantial design and R&D resources to support its factories, which themselves include large and modern machine shops and testing establishments.

3 World Class service to industry William Cook products are used worldwide in industries where performance, reliability and quality are paramount. Crown Copyright

4 World Class products for Rail Two pictures on this spread summarise the breadth of William Cook s capability in the rail sector. The innovative Combination Coupler (2), which allows rail vehicles with different types of coupler to be coupled together, was designed and manufactured from cast and machined components, all 100% in-house. The transverse bolster (6) comprises five steel castings, all individually machined before being welded together into the finished assembly. That assembly is then finish machined, pressure tested and painted, again 100% in-house. 1. Traction motor flask 2. Multi-role Combination Coupler 3. Tilting bolster for Pendolino high-speed train 4. Axlebox including bush + flexible articulation 5. Series 3 bogie frame 6. Transverse bolster 7. Automatic Tightlock Coupler 8. Bogie frame end for Turbostar train 9. Brake disc 10. Fabricating bolster assemblies in William Cook s Leeds plant 5 2

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6 World Class products for Energy The term energy covers many sectors but with one common feature - a requirement for extreme specification, heavy duty safety critical components. Whether they be for wellhead or down-hole equipment, high pressure sour fluid pumps, nuclear reactor circuits, steam turbine generators or a host of other energy related purposes, William Cook cast products are often the customers preferred choice tonne valve assembly for thermal power station 2. 4 tonne duplex impeller for hydro power plant 3. Super duplex multi-stage pump casing tonne steam chest assembly for 500 Mw turbine generator 5. High volume slurry pump upper casing 6. The same pump; 7 tonne lower casing 8 4

7 Centrifugal pumps at assembly stage 8. Detail of super duplex multi-stage pump casing 9. 2 tonne wellhead collar assembly 9 5

8 World Class products for Defence C D A B BAE Systems 2014 A. Track, running gear associated tools B. Final drives and sprocket assemblies C. Turrets, hatches and other structural parts D. Ground engaging tools and towing gear 6

9 4 5 William Cook is a global leader in the design and manufacture of track and running gear for armoured vehicles, and the main supplier of armoured vehicle track to the British Army. William Cook is also a trusted supplier of cast armour and structural parts for military platforms, and an expert manufacturer of extreme specification components for military aircraft and missiles. 1. Warrior power drive transmission 2. Missile fuel system filter body 3. Strain testing a track section 4. TR40 track for FRES SV 5. Missile guidance system gyroscope chassis 6. TR20 track for M113 armoured personnel carrier 6 7

10 World Class products for Structures and Construction Structural roof supports for leisure complex 2. Hydraulic excavator bucket lip 3. Suspension bridge cable clamp 4. Heathrow Terminal 5 Torso Node 5. Ground engaging tools for excavators 6. Cable band 8

11 World Class products for World Class Engineers These two pages illustrate the breadth of William Cook s design and manufacturing capabilities across a broad spectrum of engineering from tiny precision parts weighing a few grammes to huge castings and assemblies weighing many tonnes. 7. Lost wax components for precision applications 8. 4 tonne nuclear waste flask 9. Plug headers for petrochemical plants 10. Powerplant pump impeller 11. Interconnector for Intermodal freight 12. Corner casting for Intermodal freight 13. MAFI twistlock for Intermodal freight

12 World Class design and control

13 &2. CAD drawing and CNC patternmaking 3. 4 CAD programmed CNC universal milling machines manufacture patterns and other tooling at William Cook Master Patterns 4. Solidification modelling 5. CAD and FEA 6. Linear accelerator radiography at William Cook NDT 7. CMM measurement is standard practice 8. Programming room at the Precision plant 8 11

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15 Finish fabricating a heavy-duty axle from cast components at the Leeds plant 2. Robotic moulding at the Stanhope plant 3. AOD steel refining at the Sheffield plant 4. Automatic coremaking at the Leeds plant 5. Friction welding of axles at the Leeds plant 6. Robotic coating of lost wax patterns at the Precision plant 7. CNC universal milling at the Leeds plant 8. Automated greensand moulding at the Stanhope plant 8 13

16 Without Compromise a brief history Originally from a family of Nottinghamshire farmers, William Cook, the great great grandfather of the present Chairman Andrew Cook, walked to Scotland and set up a saw factory in Glasgow in It survived a bank failure and in 1883 a small factory was started in Washford Road, Sheffield, making crucible steel castings for collieries. The Glasgow works was handed over to relatives by marriage in the early 20th century and from 1902 William Cook s two grandsons concentrated their attentions on the Washford Road works. Crucible melting in clay pots over coke fires continued until after World War Two. 14

17 1. William Cook senior ( ), the founder of the Company, shown with his father William (1786? and son, William Cook junior ( ). 2. Andrew Hanson Cook ( ) son of William Cook junior and father of Andrew McTurk Cook ( ). 3. Andrew Cook (1949 ) with his father Andrew McTurk Cook and son William (1988 ) outside Buckingham Palace having just been made Commander of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen in February A William Cook & Sons catalogue c In 1950 the first electric furnace was installed and in 1956 the Company, although still very small, floated on the London Stock Exchange. During the next ten years the Company outgrew its old fashioned premises in the Don Valley and between 1968 and 1974 a new works was built on an elevated, more out-of-town, site. This works grew considerably over the following 30 years and today it is one of the group s four main plants. Andrew Cook, the present Chairman, took control of the Company in 1981 and began a period of rapid expansion and refocusing on new markets. By 1986 sales exceeded 10 million and, following a series of acquisitions over the next five years, by 1991 they had grown to 120 million. During this period, many famous names in the steel casting industry were taken over by William Cook, including Weir Foundries, George Blair, Lake and Elliott and Lloyds Burton. However, the Company s stock market listing had become its Achilles heel and in 1996 a hostile takeover bid from a Midlands industrial group threatened the independence and very existence of the Company. After a long battle the bid was finally defeated by Andrew Cook, who took the Company private with venture capital assistance. In 2002, Andrew Cook began to shrink the group to a more manageable size which would be less vulnerable to market vagaries and over-extended management and in 2004 he bought out the venture capital shareholders. After nearly 50 years, William Cook was again back in family ownership. Since 2006 the group has been debt-free and cash rich, with its activities concentrated on its four main plants in Sheffield, Leeds and Weardale and its market focus on high specification, high-value added components and assemblies where engineering innovation, quality control and efficient, professional manufacturing are more important than mere price. 15

18 World Class resources Advanced mechanical testing AOD steel refining CAD and Magma design CMM metrology CNC pattern and toolmaking Extensive CNC machining Induction melting of all ferrous alloys Linear accelerator radiography No-bake, shell, lost wax, greensand and ceramic moulding Pieceweights from 10 grammes to 12 tonnes Specialist fabrication and assembly William Cook Cast Products Sheffield Plant Precision Plant Leeds Plant Stanhope Plant Integrity products in AOD steel Smaller specialist products Rail and other complex components Tank tracks, wearparts and intermodal fittings William Cook Integrity William Cook Master Patterns William Cook Precision William Cook NDT William Cook Leeds William Cook Rail William Cook Stanhope William Cook Intermodal Cook Defence Systems Parkway Avenue Sheffield S9 4WA England Phone +44 (0) Fax +44 (0) Station Road Halfway Sheffield S20 3GD England Phone +44 (0) Fax +44 (0) Cross Green Leeds LS9 ODX England Phone +44 (0) Fax +44 (0) Stanhope Co Durham DL13 2YR England Phone +44 (0) Fax +44 (0) Accreditations and Quality Standards Accreditations and Quality Standards Accreditations and Quality Standards Accreditations and Quality Standards ISO 9001 ISO OHSAS Lloyds Register of Shipping American Bureau of Shipping Norsok M-650 NQ1 DNV ISO 9001 ISO OHSAS Lloyds Register of Shipping Airbus Air Authority 237 BAE Aerospace AG/10871/MAA DNV RWTUV EN IRIS LINK-UP ISO 9001 ISO OHSAS DNV ISO 9001 ISO OHSAS Lloyds Register of Shipping DEFSTAN

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