Founded by three Sarginsons brothers in 1933, Sarginsons Industries is an aluminium foundry, with a global reputation, that has been innovating at the heart of British industry for over 80 years, working alongside engineering greats, such as Sir H Ricardo, and leading technologies, with the first copy milling machine in the UK.
After being bombed twice in WW2, whilst making aircraft engine components, the company moved to the current Torrington Rd site in 1950, previously a 10,000sq ft old trouser factory with company pond at the back. It was soon involved in almost every aspect of the post war British car industry, as well as making the dancing taps for Norman Wisdom.
The foundry was launched in 1953 which boomed in the 1960's before making all the, non-engine, castings for the DeLorean DMC 12 in 1983, a time which also saw the company become a leader in safety critical thin wall castings, which it still is?
Sarginsons is the principal amongst four companies that comprise the Nudation Group. All companies work seamlessly, to ensure their specialist area of casting expertise helps push every boundary of the casting process. All of which can be best seen in Sarginsons uniquely exhaustive Design for Manufacture service.
Sarginsons vision is to be 'the world's most advanced, most trusted and most collaborative gateway for complex aluminium castings'. Effectively, to be a pathway for clients to design and produce better castings by exploiting the very latest in liquid metal engineering.
Sarginsons seek to dominate all aspects of the technology of aluminium casting, as a means of producing stronger, greener, and lighter cast components. The massive economies and significant performance improvements this offers, make us an essential gateway and first port of call for all new aluminium components, assemblies and structures.
Sarginsons constantly work with Universities and OEMs, across the world, to further the immense possibilities that advanced casting promises. The dream is total liquid metal engineering, where any shape liquid metal can take becomes castable.
Sarginsons most recent breakthroughs includes the world's only true digital twin simulations, high strength recycled aluminium, controlled TYE performance, and the ability to create sand cast prototypes with the same mechanical performance as production components.
Sarginsons has been an aluminium foundry and pattern maker since 1936 quickly establishing a reputation for innovation, which has been most frequently seen over a 70 year involvement with the UK automotive industry.
Today Sarginsons specialises in low porosity castings from Low Pressure, Gravity and Sand casting facilities, particularly in the automotive and aerospace industries, but it's real skill is in finding solutions, usually through its technology, to otherwise insurmountable problems.
Sarginsons is not your everyday foundry. It specialises in advancing casting technology as a means of solving complex and challenging casting dilemmas, like lightweighting, the merging of components and enhanced TYE performance.
The CNC machining of castings is a specialist skill. It requires a detailed knowledge of tooling, datum strategies, and fixturing, as well as an in depth understanding of casting, heat treatment, and coating options.
Sarginsons view CNC machining as an integral part of the casting design process, with well planned tolerances and optimised CNC pathways being critical to finding the perfect casting design.
Numachine is one of the best. With capacities up to 1.6m it is capable of handling the largest of castings, whilst its years of solving the most complex of machining problems positions it ideally to solve the next impossible challenge.
Having an internal pattern maker is critical to a responsive and innovative casting service. It's not only about being able to produce original, solution driven, patterns, it's also about being able to do so immediately.
Pattern Solutions provides a rapid turnaround service that perfectly complements Sarginsons iterative approach to casting design. The numerous tweaks and modifications required to refine, test and explore optimum design solutions demand in house production - particularly when seeking perfect production prototypes.
Pattern Solutions produces all of Sarginsons sand patterns but also its CNC, X-Ray and heat treatment fixturing, utilising 3D printing as well as traditional fabrication techniques.
The excitement may be all about the technology, but the reality is all about our people.
Challenges are the lifeblood of Sarginsons. They're the kernel of our R&D, the reason for our existence, the essence of who we are. From the foundation of the company we have been solving problems, realising ambitions, smashing assumptions and changing the possible. Problems are our doorways to progress.
In being able to accurately simulate and predict TYE mechanical strength, at any point across a components form, Sarginsons can really exploit the extraordinary ability of topological optimisation to shed mass or to enhance mechanical performance.
Sarginsons technology is world leading. Its amazingly accurate digital twin simulations and its technical cousin, topological optimisation, mesh perfectly with a range of production technologies and near zero carbon alloys, to create a whole new world of opportunities.
Casting entire sections of cars in one piece makes sound economic sense. With the development of several casting technologies, many pioneered by Sarginsons, they can also be lighter greener and cheaper.
Increasing TYE mechanical performance, even in sand cast prototypes, is a Sarginsons speciality. A whole range of novel technologies covering every aspect of the casting process can be deployed.
Sarginsons is a low porosity, aluminium foundry covering low pressure, sand and gravity casting techniques that has forged new frontiers in lightweight, complex and geometrically challenging castings.
Sarginsons five years of research into casting aerospace components has produced the technology, such as digital twin simulations, that can produce stronger, greener, and cheaper components through traditional casting techniques.
Casting has massive potential for cost reductions. It starts with great component design but there's a multitude of other avenues of attack. One thing is certain though, the best place to drive it, is the Sarginsons foundry.
Sarginsons uses its extraordinary technology to drive better casting solutions for clients.
Prototypes are not production representative as different manufacturing processes result in differing mechanical performance. Sarginsons can manipulate mechanical performance, particularly in sand castings, to create prototypes that exactly mimic production parts. A huge advantage.
Industrialising castings, whose prototypes are made using different processes, is challenging. Sarginsons makes the process easier by being able to cast prototypes with the same mechanical characteristics as production components. A real advantage.
Sarginsons has worked on research projects with Sheffield, Birmingham, Warwick, Imperial and several other universities, alongside many automotive and aerospace OEMs. We're always learning.
Casting TYE mechanically compliant prototypes from CAD, in under 24 hours is feasible, as 3D printed moulds and cores alongside digital twin simulations and Smart Cooling can bypass bottlenecks, whilst ensuring full mechanical integrity.
In being able to accurately simulate and predict TYE mechanical strength, at any point across a components form, Sarginsons can really exploit the extraordinary ability of topological optimisation to shed mass or to enhance mechanical performance.
Increasing TYE mechanical performance, even in sand cast prototypes, is a Sarginsons speciality. A whole range of novel technologies covering every aspect of the casting process can be deployed.
Casting has massive potential for cost reductions. It starts with great component design but there's a multitude of other avenues of attack. One thing is certain though, the best place to drive it, is the Sarginsons foundry.
Industrialising castings, whose prototypes are made using different processes, is challenging. Sarginsons makes the process easier by being able to cast prototypes with the same mechanical characteristics as production components. A real advantage.
Sarginsons remedies problems in existing castings, by using its unique digital twin technology to virtually test multiple design iterations without affecting production.
It is simply not possible to design a casting with optimum cost or performance characteristics, without Sarginsons unique Digital Twin Simulation, Topological Optimisation or Design for Manufacture services. So why not use it?
To address the issue of supply chain resilience, Sarginsons has developed a virtual solution that enables emergency, short run casting, without the administrative burden and costs of dual sourcing.
Merging components into a one-piece casting is common sense. Sarginsons unique ability to simulate mechanical performance allows it to lightweight larger castings, without any overengineering.
In only using hydroelectric aluminium, Sarginsons is a low carbon foundry, but it's ability to refine the grain structure of recycled aluminium using rare earths will make it the lowest carbon foundry in the world.
Sarginsons technology is world leading. Its amazingly accurate digital twin simulations and its technical cousin, topological optimisation, mesh perfectly with a range of production technologies and near zero carbon alloys, to create a whole new world of opportunities.
Sarginsons is a low porosity, aluminium foundry covering low pressure, sand and gravity casting techniques that has forged new frontiers in lightweight, complex and geometrically challenging castings.
Sarginsons has worked on research projects with Sheffield, Birmingham, Warwick, Imperial and several other universities, alongside many automotive and aerospace OEMs. We're always learning.
Sarginsons technology is world leading. Its amazingly accurate digital twin simulations and its technical cousin, topological optimisation, mesh perfectly with a range of production technologies and near zero carbon alloys, to create a whole new world of opportunities.
Sarginsons is a low porosity, aluminium foundry covering low pressure, sand and gravity casting techniques that has forged new frontiers in lightweight, complex and geometrically challenging castings.
Sarginsons has worked on research projects with Sheffield, Birmingham, Warwick, Imperial and several other universities, alongside many automotive and aerospace OEMs. We're always learning.
There's no such thing as failure, only another lesson learnt. It is this attitude that defines Sarginsons. We know there's a solution, it's just a little difficult to find sometimes. We know, because we've found plenty.