Metals for Marine

Today's shipping vessels are far more diverse, just as the types of goods that now travel by sea vary enormously, with products ranging from gas and oil through to children's toys. To accommodate such a wide variety of cargo, ships now come in all shapes and sizes. From massive supertankers, containerships and bulk carriers to the small sail powered off shore fishing and trading vessels.

While commercial vessels still dominate the seas by their sheer weight of numbers there are also a significant numbers of naval ships sailing around the globe, incorporating aircraft carriers and submarines. In addition, the leisure boat industry comprises luxury yachts', powerboats and sailing craft for racing or simply messing about on the river.

With such a range of vessels and applications the variety of castings required is immense. Castings range from small, intricate precision castings weighing a few grammes, produced by investment casters, through to large submarine pressure hull castings bodies. There are also numerous pump and valve bodies giving us a full range of metals and alloys required in their manufacture. Meanwhile alloys cast also comprise a variety of stainless steel grades, brass and gun metal.

Much like the marine industry, which is one of the world's oldest and by nature one of the most international, William Rowland Limited is one of the most long-established metals supply companies in the world.

As an international company, William Rowland Ltd source and supply metals for customers worldwide, who are responsible for producing stainless steel and non-ferrous castings. Today these castings are widely used in marine applications ranging from small castings for yachting right through to pressure hatches on submarines.

Metals for Marine

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