Furnace Construction Company was founded in 1966, assembling a team of furnace engineers, graduates from Britain’s major furnace builders, with extensive experience in every aspect of furnace design and control.
With a background deeply entrenched in engineering design, the Company’s ability to produce specialised furnaces for demanding applications was soon recognised, first of all in the United Kingdom and progressively across the world. Today the Company employs over 50 staff and is known as a leading furnace manufacturer with a combined turnover around £4mil. per annum, 20% of this exported. Presently the business split of the Company is 50% cremators and incinerators and 50% furnaces, kilns, spares and repairs.
Furnace Construction, a member of BIFCA (British Industrial Furnace Constructors' Association), produce a wide range of furnaces and high temperature kilns and are recognised world leaders in the specialised field of fire resistance testing. A list of installations carried out by Furnace Construction is shown at the end of this presentation. Various sizes of fire resistance test equipment have been produced over the years, the overall goal has been to standardize the design to produce uniform testing results at different laboratories.
Another field taking advantage of the Company’s expertise is the production of ceramics for the engineering and electronics industry. A number of large kilns operating at temperatures up to 1750°C have been installed throughout the world and the Company is a member of the British Ceramic Plant and Machinery Manufacturers' Association (BCPMMA).
The Company has worked closely with Rolls Royce Aero Engines and has installed 44 furnaces. The whole of Rolls Royce’ production of the wide chord, hollow, turbine fan blades for engines such as the RB211 and Trent used in the European Air Bus, Boeing Jumbo etc. are produced in these furnaces. They range from vacuum bonding equipment to forming of the blades using hydraulically operated equipment within the furnace atmosphere.
1975 saw the Company’s first involvement with the British Cremation Movement, which led to the introduction in 1980 of the “Newton” Cremator; the first in the world to feature fully computerised control. Since then over 350 “Newton” cremators have been installed and today the Company is seen as one of the world’s leading manufacturers. Its latest venture is the “Joule” cremator which has out-sold all its competitors over the past three years.
Furnace Construction’s previous experience and its continued thirst for new developments and business opportunities inevitably led to the establishment of “Incineration Combustion Technology”, specialising in the design and manufacture of a range of incinerators and allied equipment.
The Associate Company of Cremation Technology International Ltd. was established in 1992 to specialise in the repair and service of cremation equipment, and in 1998 acquired L. & P. Furnaces. Both Furnace Construction Co. Ltd. and Cremation Technology International Ltd. have the same controlling interests and are British owned and managed.
Looking into the future, the Company is continuing to expand its customer base throughout the U.K. and abroad, whilst its reputation for quality and reliability remains at the forefront.
