Senior Bird Bellows the Specialist in Bespoke, precision engineered metallic bellows
Engineering bespoke bellows, flexible joints, and pressure duct systems for high temperature and high-pressure applications working within strictly regulated industries across the globe.
Our core strength lies in engineering complex solutions for unique challenges
We place great emphasis upon understanding the customer requirements and the application to ensure every project is delivered to the highest standards. We consider ourselves inventors; if an engineer faces an unusual problem, we can solve it. Our dedicated design team enhance and optimise solutions for your application, often overcoming the toughest challenges with our wealth of experience and expertise.
Our Product Mix
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High Pressure air/gas Duct systems
- Flexible Joints
- Ball Joints
- Gimbal joints
- Braided Bellows
- Instrument Bellows
- Vi-breakers Elastomer Sealed joints
- Valve Bellows and Bellows assemblies
- Specialist exhaust systems
- Expansion joints
- Specialised bellows for mechanical seals, axial, angular and lateral deflection
- Light weight construction from sheet material including Titanium, Nickel Alloys and Stainless Steel
We are bespoke fabrication, manufacture and assembly specialists
Senior Bird Bellows offer extensive manufacturing capabilities in a state-of-the-art facility with a production area of 60,000 square feet. Our fully equipped site houses a wide range of production machinery including a CNC tube bender, various CNC lathes and machine centres, and robotic spot welding and polishing.
Our Manufacturing Capabilities
- Tube Manufacture
- Bellows Manufacture
- Mechanical Roll Forming
- Elastomeric Forming
- Diameter 12mm to 650mm in thicknesses from 0.1mm
- Bellows Membrane only or as a complete assembly with end fittings
- Manufactured as thin wall convolutions, can be single or multi-ply
- World class inhouse welding capabilities
- Tig
- Plasma
- Robotic resistance welding
- Hot forming of Ball joints
- Hot and cold press forming
Our internal process covers the activities required to make our full range of parts. This is complemented by the wider group and long-term relationships with our trusted partners.
Our Test capabilities
- High Temperature
- Up to 700°C
- Pressure testing capabilities (pulse pressure up to 35bar and static air pressure up to 100 bar)
- Endurance testing to RTCA industry Standard
- Proof/Burst rupture and test
- Sub zero & Icing testing with further cryogenic capabilities
