Howco

Howco is a Glasgow-headquartered distributor and processor of high-performance alloys and a manufacturer of precision machined components. Its corporate offices are on Woodside Crescent in Glasgow, and its Scottish operations include a processing and machining site at Drybridge Park in Irvine.

The company stocks low-alloy steels, stainless, duplex and super duplex steels, and nickel and super alloys. Its services include sawing, forging, heat treatment, deep hole boring, CNC machining, testing, and additive manufacturing, allowing it to supply anything from raw material to finished components. Much of its work is for oil and gas equipment used downhole, subsea, and at the surface, with further customers in chemical processing, energy, and aerospace, where it has gained AS9100D accreditation.

Howco was founded in Scotland in 1982 by Malcolm Howat and John McDonald Ferguson and is now part of the Sumitomo Corporation group. Beyond Scotland it has sites in Sheffield, Stockport, and Warrington, along with operations in Norway, the United States, Singapore, and the UAE.