37 years founded on quality progressing through technology                       

A history of reliability                                                         Download Our Profile
With a proud tradition of excellence, which dates from its founding in 1969, Nigerian Foundries Limited (NFL) is West Africa's leading foundry. Located at Ilupeju Industrial Estate, Lagos, the Company originally served as a grey iron foundry, specializing in municipal castings, water fittings and general machined castings for the engineering industry.

In 1990, NFL expanded its industrial base and entered into a technological transfer agreement with Messrs. Bradley & Foster of the United Kingdom who were specialists in wear and heat resistant alloy castings for the cement industry.

The expansion continued in 1995/96 with the increase in its melting output and diversification into castings for the mining, quarrying and other solid minerals processing industries.

A pattern of success
Equipped with the latest facilities, NFL's experienced pattern makers get the right results by matching pattern equipment to the moulding process. Furthermore, the Methods department is equipped with the 3-dimensional drawing software,  Autodesk Inventor, while  all the necessary casting simulation is concluded on the MAVIS software.

Cast in mould of quality
Forming the nucleus of NFL's moulding facilities are horizontal moulding machines designed for the fast production of green sand moulds of consistently high quality. The moulds produce castings of international standard with weights of up to 100kg. NFL's jobbing moulding facilities are designed to produce iron and steel castings of up to 2200 kilograms; a versatility known only to a few foundries.

Melting to specifications
NFL's melting facilities encompass medium frequency induction furnaces of varying capacities from 500 to 1,000 kilograms. Monitoring of the material produced to the required metallurgical specifications is achieved by the use of the in-house Optical Emission Spectrometer. This ensures that specifications conform to all international standards, as required by the customer.

Perhaps NFL's greatest strength lies in her ability to produce a wide range of materials to the highest standard of quality and excellence.

Heat treatment: the cold hard facts
NFL operates the latest in electronically controlled heat treatment facilities complete with graphed recording instrumentation to monitor heat treatment cycles. Water, oil and air quenching facilities are also employed to ensure that optimum mechanical properties and grain structures are achieved so as to satisfy the exact specifications of our ever-expanding customer base.

Quality that stands the test of time
For 35 years we have built an international reputation that rests on our comprehensive quality testing procedures. Tests that include:

• Spectrographic testing of metallurgical compositions

• Metallographic testing with the use of a specialized microscope

• Hardness Testing

• Ultra-sonic Inspection

• Magnetic Particle and Dye Penetrant tests

• Dimensional testing of castings

• Visual casting inspection

NFL is serious about her commitment to and responsibility for quality.

Machining to excellence
NFL's machine shop deals with a variety of jobs from high chromium pump impellers to manganese steel concave rings. We have two machine shops and a fabrication unit that carry out a variety of jobs. These facilities are available to our customers for their specified machining and fabrication requirements.

Evolution through fabrication

NFL's fabrication shop is situated at the Otta Plant and is able to handle a variety of fabrication jobs such as construction of planetary cooler tubes, cylindrical vessels, silos, etc. The fabrication shop started  as an in-house unit and today handles a variety of jobs for a broad range of customers ranging from cement plants to the telecommunication industry.  For more on Otta Plant, click here...

Marketing to win
In addition to Nigeria, NFL produces and sells castings to other countries of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) region. Our services are offered to Mines, Quarries and Cement Plants in Republique du Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic. By the end of year 2004, NFL will be servicing the following additional countries in the region: Guinea, Mali and Cameroon. This bold move will definitely make NFL the leader in West Africa.

ISO 9001 certified Quality Management System
Our quality management system is certified by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to conform to the NIS ISO 9001:2000 standard. Our products are produced in batches and tested to conform to international standards. For each order supplied, we issue a Certificate of Quality Conformance.

Conquering the millennium with an attitude
After having expanded three times in the last decade with improved expertise, versatility, dedication to excellence and successful completion of an ultra modern factory at Otta, Ogun state of Nigeria; we are assured of a place at the forefront of West Africa's foundry industry, and this is paving the way for an even brighter future in the global economy. For more on Otta Plant, click here.....

We Cast To Last
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