Your Partner for Materials Selection, Modification & Development
Our team of materials scientists and engineers are available to support you with your projects and provide options for the best materials for your application.
Our expertise will help you improve the properties relevant to your application, reduce costs and improve the effectiveness of the material and component.
Bespoke Wire Solutions for your toughest challenges
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.
Tailored Single Crystal Solutions for precision and performance
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.
Custom Ceramic Components to Your Exact Specification
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.
Custom Metal Alloy Powders for advanced manufacturing
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.
Tailored Polymer Components Precisely Engineered for Your Application
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
Technical Services
Materials Selection and Recommendations
Consultation and Advice
Specification Support and Testing
Analysis of Test Results
Supply Chain Risk Assessment
Drawing Review and Guidance
NDA and Confidentiality
Prototype to Production Manufacturing Considerations
Academic and Industry Backed Expertise
There are many factors that can affect the selection of a material for your application, and we understand getting this right from prototype stage can have many benefits, including not having to re-design later in the product lifecycle.
We understand the balance between technical and commercial drivers and will collaborate with you to understand your needs. With academic and industry knowledge, backed by innovative materials databases, we look forward to discussing how we can support you.
We of course treat every interaction with confidentiality. Lots of our work here is not shareable, however please see how we supported CERN to help solve their problem of radiation damage to light fittings in the LHC.
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.
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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