Major Markets

Firth Rixson Ltd. operates a wide range of forging, specialty rolling, melting, and fabricating plants. With sites in the United Kingdom, Hungary, China, and the United States, serving aerospace, power generation, commercial automotive, offshore / petrochemical, and general engineering. Products include open and closed die forgings, seamless and welded rolled rings, superalloys, rolled and welded sheet metal and wear resistant castings.

Aerospace

Aerospace makes up more than 50% of our annual sales. Customers include aero-engine and airframe OEMs and their subcontractors in more than 40 countries. Firth Rixson offers a multitude of products from ready-to-assemble components to raw materials for cast and wrought parts.

Commercial Automotive

Providing components such as gear boxes and transmissions for trucks and buses constitutes Firth Rixson’s second largest market segment. This market for on-highway vehicles is a fast growing segment for large, complex metal forgings from Firth Rixson.

Power Generation

Firth Rixson supplies components across the full range of power generation product categories. Customers, located in every market around the world, use Firth Rixson manufactured parts in small and large power-generation equipment.

Specialty Steels and Alloys

We are a leading producer of steels and superalloys for the aerospace, power generation, oil, and related industries. In addition, the company produces high-speed steels, and a broad selection of engineered materials for specialized applications.

General Engineering

Consumers of our general engineering forgings include suppliers of gears, rolled rings, shafts, and closed-die forgings that draw upon a wide spectrum of alloys for their manufacture.

Off-Highway

Manufacturers of off-highway vehicles that must take on the most demanding jobs in industry, turn to Firth Rixson for rugged, load-bearing and fatigue-resisting forged components, such as axels and structural parts for vehicles.

Petrochemical

Firth Rixson is a producer of an extensive variety of parts for the energy exploration, petroleum refining, and chemical processing industries.  These industries draw on our capabilities to manufacture pipes, fittings and extrusions in a broad range of shapes and sizes.

Railway

Railway OEMs call on Firth Rixson for the manufacture of precision forged and machined axles, shafts, rolled-ring products and other operationally vital components for the railway transportation industry.

Medical

Firth Rixson supplies biocompatible, corrosion-resistant materials to the manufacturers of medical implants, including rolled bar to machinists and forgers, and cast sticks for specialized applications.