Automotive

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From small repair shops to the world’s largest automotive manufacturers, we work with the automotive industry to achieve high quality, high productivity and lower costs.

Our Products and Services for the Automotive Industry

Our extensive range of products, equipment, services and solutions, offers our automotive clients all they need for their various applications, including:

• Heat treatment – our expertise in heat treatment enables automotive component manufacturers to achieve the desired microstructure, physical properties and surface properties with high furnace productivity.
• Welding and Cutting – to enable high weld quality, low defect rates and high productivity. We supply fabricators, from small auto-repair shops to the world’s leading automotive manufacturers with a range of welding and cutting products and services, including.
  • Gases – oxygen, helium, argon, shielding gas mixtures.
  • Equipment and consumables – including:
    • welding machines, torches, regulators.
    • welding electrodes, fillers, wires.
  • Outsourcing solutions –  we help our customers to focus on what they do best. By locating our staff on their site we provide inventory management, safety training and transaction management.  Our services are not restricted to managing the products we supply.  We can also manage second-tier suppliers to streamline their supply chain. 
    • For example, BOC has taken out substantial cost from the supply chain of a major automotive manufacturer. We manage their 45 second-tier vendors of non-production consumables who supply 10,000 individual part numbers across multiple plants. We manage ordering, supply the part directly to the correct plant and provide consolidated invoices. We also provide technical support, seek new products and source competitive suppliers

…we also supply gases for

• Air conditioning – our refrigerants are used in the installation and refill of air conditioning systems and for cold simulation. Our refrigerant recovery services reduce refrigerant losses and allow cost-effective compliance with environmental legislation.
• Emission testing – our calibration gases are used for accurate monitoring of air quality and in vehicle engine testing by automotive manufacturers, garages and UK MOT centres.
• Coating – gases and gaseous chemicals for advanced coatings.
• Insulation – gases and foam blowing agents,

Other products and services for industrial facilities

• Water treatment –  oxygen, carbon dioxide, chlorine, sulphur dioxide and ammonia for cost effective effluent treatment.
• Fire suppression – fire protection products and fire suppression gases for production premises.
• Health and safety – a large range of personal protective equipment and resuscitation packs.
• Customer safety audits – to identify unsafe work practices and recommend appropriate control measures.
• Safety training – staff training in safe handling of gases on the shop floor and in the laboratory.