Critical components for the civil nuclear power program in South Korea have been completed by Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited.

The engineering specialist, which is the only UK company carrying ASME certification to manufacture civil nuclear castings and forgings, has supplied forgings for the reactor coolant pumps in South Korea’s new wave of nuclear power plants.

The seven figure sum contract provided safety critical components and highlights the Sheffield based company’s increasing profile as a key manufacturer for the international civil nuclear supply chain.

Ms Jenna Graseley, Nuclear Forgings sales manager at Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Limited, a subsidiary of SFIL, said that "The order was for forgings for seal housings and covers for Westinghouse designed reactor coolant pumps at the Shin Kori project, part of the South Korean nuclear power program. There was a lot of pressure to deliver this contract on time and we even exceeded expectations by early completion."

The contract was to create eight sets of components, each set made up of two forgings weighing in at three and a half tonnes. This is one of a series of orders that SFIL has produced for the Korean program and the components are designed for a new 1400MW power plant.

Mr Graham Honeyman CEO at SFIL said that "Sheffield Forgemasters is servicing a global nuclear power market, which is expanding to feed a significant shortfall in power generation capacity across the globe. There are less than ten companies in the world capable of this type of civil nuclear power manufacturing. Forgemasters has a long and proven history in supplying to the nuclear industries and it is important that the UK retains an option to manufacture for new power plants as this demand increases."