Your Partner in Precision Machining Services

Goodfellow specializes in providing precision machining solutions for exotic, hard to process and ceramics materials. Our expert team will review your drawing and look to provide a quote to match your requirements.

In any instance where we feel this is not possible or our engineers have an alternative solution for you, we will make these recommendations to you for your consideration. 

We can offer:

  • Specialist Machinable Ceramics Machining
  • Specialist Exotic and Hard Materials Machining
  • 5 axis CNC, turning, drilling, grinding and milling
  • Full inspection and certification to your request

Goodfellow also offers a variety of polishing and lapping services dependent on your product requirements and specification:

  • Polishing to a surface roughness less than 1micron
  • Diamond Grinding
  • Lapping
  • Surface roughness measurements

75+

Years of facilitating scientific innovation
 

170K

Huge range of advanced materials

111

Countries served globally

ISO9001

Quality assured products

Machined Materials (not limited to)

Zirconia Toughened Alumina (ZTA)

Aluminum Nitride

Tungsten Carbide

Silicon Carbide

Molybdenum* 

Why Goodfellow?

  • No minimum order
  • Over 175,000 advanced materials
  • Supply Chain Management:
    • sourcing custom materials for your needs
  • Dispatched globally within 48 hours
  • Materials customization:
    • Custom parts for prototyping | Full product modification | Micro-machining | Microfabrication | Rolling
  • Free and fast delivery: Worldwide shipping and customs clearance, to your door. All orders are dispatched within 48 hours
  • Commercial arrangements: 
    • Call off orders | Buffer stock | Fixed and contract pricing | Discounts for increased volumes
  • We help you innovate into the future.

*Conditions apply

Contact us today for a quote and advice

We will attempt to provide you with an offer quickly meeting all your specification and drawing requirements. We can also make recommendations and suggest design considerations that may improve function and reduce the complexity of manufacture (and therefore cost!).

Our team of materials scientists and engineers are also on hand to recommend materials and review required properties.

When you submit your inquiry to us, please tell us about the operating conditions of your component (temperature, environment, mechanical stress), this can help us better pinpoint suitability.

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A Direct Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Comparison of the Plasma- and Thermally-Driven Reaction of CO2 at Macor, P. A. Christensen, Abd Halim Bin Md Ali, Z. T. A. W. Mashhadani, P. A. Martin, Plasma Chem Plasma Process (2018) 38:293–310, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-018-9874-6 

Active Metal Brazing of Machinable Aluminum Nitride-Based Ceramic to Stainless Steel, Aníbal Guedes, Ana M.P. Pinto, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, (2012) 21:671–677