C*Blade Forging & Manufacturing

• Turbine blades and vanes for thermal / nuclear steam turbines
• Compressor blades and vanes for gas turbines

The dimensions of the forgings can reach an overall length of 1,500mm (59in) and initial weights of 180kg (400lb).

C*Blade’s scope of supply includes:

• Ready for assembly blades
• Complete machined blades
• Airfoil machined blades
• Envelope forged blades

Turbine blades for a wide range of technology and materials

C*Blade produces turbine blades and vanes for a wide range of technologies:

• Alstom-ABB, GEC-Alsthom
• Ansaldo
• Doosan
• Franco Tosi
• GE
• Hitachi
• Man
• Mitsubishi
• Parsons
• Siemens, KWU, AEG
• Skoda
• Turboatom
• Ural
• Westinghouse
• Zamech

The materials are bought only from certified suppliers working in the power generation market and in compliance with the customer specifications and the most rigorous international standards.

• Stainless-steel (martensitic and precipitation hardening)
• Titanium alloys (α-near and α alloys, α-β alloys, β-near and β alloys)
• Nickel alloys (Udimet® 520, Inconel® X-750, Inconel® 718)

New equipment blades for OEMs

Thanks to its consolidated experience and complete range of stainless-steel blades, C*Blade serves all the major OEMs. C*Blade technicians are able to quickly analyse new projects and to integrate with the customer in the design of the forgings. Due to the fact that reliability in the deliveries is a must for customer satisfaction, C*Blade performs a detailed planning both over the medium / long-term period, in order to balance the workload of the plants and to guarantee materials availability, and daily to promptly react to any possible deviation from the production schedule.

C*Blade provides the following benefits:

• Capability to forge blades up to 1,500mm of length
• Fully integrated production process and supply chain
• Capability to supply ready-for-assembly blades
• Reliable deliveries
• Excellent quality

Turbine blades for turbine overhauling

C*Blade combines several years of technical expertise and efficient equipment to provide blades and vanes for turbine overhauling quickly and at competitive cost. In C*Blade’s warehouse there are a number of dies made during 50 years of presence in the power generation market. If the required die is not in stock, C*Blade is able within a few months to start from scratch and deliver a complete row of blades. Reverse engineering allows blades to be quickly rebuilt if documents are not available. C*Blade has a fully integrated production cycle and supply chain and is therefore able to act as a one-stop shop for the supply of service blades. C*Blade offers:

• Fully integrated production process and supply chain
• Capability to supply ready-for-assembly blades
• Reverse engineering capability
• Quick manufacturing
• Excellent quality