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The Doncasters Group is a leading international engineering group that manufactures precision components and assemblies for the aerospace, industrial gas turbines, specialist automotive fasteners and petrochemical markets. The group excels in working with alloys and metals that are difficult to shape and form.

Doncasters operates from sites in the UK, Continental Europe, USA, China and Mexico. The client base is genuinely global and comprises most of the industry leaders in its relevant areas of activity. The group currently employs just over 6,350 members of staff worldwide.

Doncasters has an illustrious history having been formed by Daniel Doncaster in 1778 in the city of Sheffield, UK. To this day the company still has manufacturing facilities in the city.

The company has adopted institutionalised 'lean manufacturing' and uses Six Sigma principles throughout its operations. In recent years this has resulted in a dramatic and sustained improvement in profitability. In 2006 group turnover was approximately US$940m.

For more details about the group please access the 'About Us' section of the website.

Doncasters possesses many unique industry leading technological and manufacturing skills that are very highly regarded by our customer base. We are in virtually every respect global leaders in aerospace, industrial gas turbines, automotive turbochargers, fasteners and superalloys. All are household names within their respective industries and highly demanding as regards problem solving, time to market delivery, costs and through life support.

Leveraging the synergies of our superalloy manufacturing, casting, forging, fabrication, machining and assembly capabilities, Doncasters is in a unique position of being able to offer an in house integrated Supply Chain solution for our customers.