A fourth-generation family-run business
Harry Stephenson & Sons Ltd was founded in 1908, supplying collieries with wire ropes, timber chocks and coal cutters. In 1958 – renamed as Arthur Stephenson Engineers – the company started to focus on engineering, and for the next 30 years produced machined fabrications for the mining, valve, boiler-maker and construction industries. When the market shifted to sub-sea oil and gas, Stephenson Engineering shifted with it, to serve key participants in a rapidly expanding sector.
Early beginnings
Moving to Atherton in 1995 gave Stephenson Engineering the opportunity to build new workshops and move into the CNC age. Over the past 30 years, we have invested heavily in our plant and machinery to give us the World class manufacturing facility we have today.
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Arthur Stephenson Engineers Ltd. today is a fourth generation family run business, specializing in the batch production of medium to large sized, machined components and fabrications.
Over the past 60 years, we’ve developed a broad and loyal customer base, through offering general engineering services and specialist support to power-generation, mining, civil, and oil & gas companies.
We offer a ‘build to print’ subcontract service, or a full turnkey package depending on customer needs, and our obsession with engineering quality is matched only by our reputation for flawless customer service.
Today
Our Sectors
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Mining
Our unparalleled sector knowledge and experience is combined with modern engineering techniques and processes to produce an unbeatable range of products and specialist services.
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Renewables
Keen to play our role in ensuring a sustainable future, Stephenson Engineering is increasingly active in the renewable energy sector. We’ve been manufacturing components for offshore wind platforms for many years, creating fabrications that are precise, tolerant and reliable.
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Nuclear
Stephenson Engineering works across both the civil and defence nuclear sectors, producing machined steel fabrications including Class 1 nuclear components.
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Rail
Stephenson Engineering has worked within the rail industry for many years, producing a variety of components, from bridge bearings and shear plates to steam locomotive motion.
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Defence
Our engineering facilities are ideally suited to manufacturing large steel machined fabrications, and in this respect we deliver a variety of components to the defence sector.
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Civil Engineering
Civil engineering projects have always formed an interesting and challenging part of our work. We have manufactured components for many UK and overseas projects, concentrating mainly on large and complex engineered nodes and fittings.
