Selection, Customization, Development

Goodfellow’s Custom Wire Manufacturing Service delivers tailored wire solutions for research, prototyping, and production environments where standard products just won’t do. From ultra-fine diameters to rare alloy compositions, every wire is designed to meet your exact performance needs.

Our capabilities include:

• Ultra-fine wires as small as 0.6 µm diameter for high-precision applications.
• High-purity materials up to 99.9999% (6N) for demanding scientific and industrial uses.
• Custom diameters, tempers, and alloys to achieve your target strength, flexibility, and conductivity.
• Insulated and plated options including polymer coatings and metal platings.
• Flexible supply formats: spools, coils, cut lengths, or custom packaging.

Discover Goodfellow’s custom single-crystal offering, designed for when standard material forms don’t meet the demands of your research or industrial application. With deep expertise and flexible manufacturing, we deliver single crystals that meet exacting size, orientation and surface-finish specifications.

Our capabilities include:

• Wide-ranging stock and frequent custom orders, covering different sizes, orientations & geometries.
• Custom shapes and surfaces such as polished curved crystal surfaces or bespoke cut geometries.
• Precision control, including alignment to ±0.1° and surface roughness better than 0.03 µm where needed.
• Exotic alloy and material choices beyond standard options.

Whether you’re working in R&D or full-scale production, Goodfellow’s Custom Ceramic Components service delivers tailor-made solutions in advanced ceramics, supported by decades of technical expertise.

Our capabilities include:

• Expert material-selection and design support: our team advises on the most appropriate ceramic for your environment, thermal loads, mechanical stresses and functionality.
• Full spectrum of manufacturing route, from traditional powder-formed ceramics to machinable types (e.g., Macor®, Shapal™) and high-precision CNC or laser cutting.
• Very tight tolerances and surface finishes: five-axis CNC, diamond grinding, specialist lapping and polishing (e.g., surface roughness < 1 µm, tolerances down to ±0.0025 mm) available.
• Wide material range: alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide, aluminum nitride, sapphire, machinable ceramics and more; plus assemblies, porous foams, spheres and metallised or bonded components.

Unlock the full potential of powder-based production with Goodfellow’s tailored metal alloy powder offering — ideal for additive manufacturing (AM), high-performance components and specialist research environments.

Our capabilities include:

• Bespoke alloy compositions including traditional metals, superalloys and high-entropy alloys (HEAs), tailored to your performance and manufacturing requirements.
• Precise control of powder attributes: particle size distribution, sphericity (highly spherical powders for better flow) and narrow batch variability.
• Low-volume and production-scale flexibility, from sample batches (as small as 100g) to full industrial orders.
• Supported for demanding applications such as aerospace, medical implants, hydrogen storage, and advanced production technologies.
• Expert technical support from our materials scientists to align powder properties with your AM or manufacturing process and optimise performance.

At Goodfellow, our Custom Polymer Components service delivers bespoke polymer solutions — ideal when off-the-shelf materials or forms won’t meet your research or industrial demands.

Our capabilities include:

• Assistance with material selection and design support from our team of materials-scientists and engineers.
• Full transformation service: from simple die-cutting of films to precision machining of high-performance plastics (e.g., PEEK) according to your drawings.
• Wide range of manufacturing processes: laser cutting, stamping, extrusion, machining and forming—supporting both prototyping and batch production.
• No minimum order volumes and a global supply chain for fast dispatch and delivery, helping you move from concept to production more easily

Goodfellow's microfabrication division delivers precision-engineered solutions for complex medical, life science, and advanced technology applications — ideal when conventional manufacturing methods cannot achieve the required feature sizes or tolerances.

Our capabilities include:

• Design for manufacturability support, working closely with your team to optimize geometry, materials, and processes for scalable production.

• Advanced laser micromachining and micro-CNC milling, enabling micron-scale features in polymers, metals, ceramics, and glass.

• Comprehensive microfabrication processes, including drilling, cutting, structuring, hot embossing, multilayer bonding, and precision assembly — supporting both rapid prototyping and production volumes.

• Integrated project management and quality control, ensuring repeatability, tight tolerances, and reliable performance from concept through manufacture.