Sectors and Applications

Sectors and Applications

SL Engineering is a class leading supplier of top-quality tubular fluid conveyance products to some of the world’s most regulated and demanding industry sectors. Our customers include many of the world’s largest international OEMs who rely on the high quality and integrity of our products and services to meet and exceed their own exacting standards.

We work with high-performance materials that can withstand extreme temperatures and pressures to create mission-critical fuel, hydraulic, cooling, pneumatic and other media conveyance systems, included in the following applications:

Fuel pipes and fuel assembly components

Hydraulic and pneumatic control systems

Cryogenic tube systems

Torque tube and control rods

Ducting systems

Control, monitoring and instrumentation tubing

Bulkhead fluid conveyance

High pressure systems, including double skinned pipes

Safety and electronic cable lines and cable carrying conduits

Air, Water and Gas system applications

Anti-icing systems, tubes and ducts

Environmental Control Systems

Aerospace (Civil & Military, Engine & Airframe)

The aerospace industry is one of our primary market sectors, where we have specialised in producing tube and pipe assemblies for both civil and military engine and airframe markets for over 40 years. We produce a diverse range of lightweight high strength tubular products in stainless steels, titanium and other exotic nickel alloys, which are used in extreme temperature and high-pressure flight critical applications.

Power Generation (Gas Turbine, Nuclear and Renewable Energy)

SL Engineering has a vast array of experience supplying tubular products into a diverse and rapidly evolving power generation market, from traditional gas turbine products, through to highly regulated industries such as nuclear, and the technologically advanced cutting-edge green energy sector.

Marine

SL Engineering’s pipe assemblies are used in a broad spectrum of fluid conveyance applications on marine and sub-marine vessels, including the power plants installed in the latest generation of Royal Navy destroyers, aircraft carriers and nuclear class submarines.

Defence

We manufacture a wide range of performance-critical components for a variety of defence applications on land, air and sea, from structural tube components through to critical tubular missile system components.

Space

SL Engineering fabricate tube and duct assemblies used in flight-critical applications for the space industry. Our high-quality components are manufactured to withstand the extreme pressures and temperatures experienced when travelling through the earth’s atmosphere, and beyond.

Medical

We supply the highly regulated medical industry with instrumentation and other tube and pipe products offering the highest levels of performance and reliability. Our experience with medical equipment puts us in the ideal position to supply fluid carrying components that provide the next generation of care.

Transportation, Rail and Motorsport

SL Engineering was originally established to provide products to the automotive and motorsport industries, where product applications can be varied and often extremely challenging in terms of complexity, prototyping, development and fast make lead times. Today the company continues to provide specialist tubular products to these sectors, as well as specialist applications in the rail transportation industries.

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