R & D Consulting Ltd – Metal Tech Engineering

R&D was founded by Bob Redfern when the DSIR was disbanded in 1992. John Mitchell has taken over from Ian and comes from a manufacturing background. He has been involved at a technical level in making castings in steel, stainless steel, cast iron, ductile iron (SG), white irons (NiHard), austenitic irons (NiResist), aluminium alloys (601 & 401), bronze alloys (AB2), zinc alloys and lead. He also has experience in the supply of tool steels (D2, P20, H13, O1, A2, W1) and in the heat treatment industry. His knowledge on other materials is also extensive from surface coatings to space-age refractories. He has helped change enterprises based on the black arts of the past to today’s science of metals and materials behaviour. He can now help the wider industry understand their processes and their control. We can answer the What, How and Why questions. Get us to check so that you can trust with confidence.