Senior Bird Bellows has worked predominantly in Aerospace over the last 4 decades, but our long-term strategy involves diversification into other sectors, including Defence, Energy, Pharmaceutical and more.
Aerospace 
With more than forty years of experience, we are uniquely placed to take the most complex of problems and engineer high quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions. We specialise in the design of bellows, bellows assemblies, gimbal bellows, flexible duct joints and pressured duct systems for the Aerospace industry. Our products are production standard for Airbus Aircraft, Embraer Regional Jets and Rolls-Royce Aero Engines.
Aircraft pneumatic duct systems must accommodate loads and movements arising from internal pressure, extreme temperatures and airframe movement. To avoid failure of the ducting, flexible solutions are required to absorb expansion and movements from tail to wingtips. Senior Bird Bellows have provided many solutions for these requirements.
Typical product applications include:
Defence 
Senior Bird Bellows is a market-leader in the supply of complex solutions for industries that require absolute reliability and safety. Our state-of-the-art equipment, which replicates operational environments, ensures the highest levels of performance. Testing parameters within the Defence industry can also be higher than civil applications; the leading technology within our testing and qualification facility ensures maximum performance and compliance.
We supply components in a variety of materials including nickel alloys titanium and stainless steel. This covers the full range of bleed air temperatures and pressures.
Defence solutions present a number of challenges, for which our engineers have the technical experience and artistry to continually overcome. Products must be maintenance-free and continually perform to high standards, along with withstanding higher loads and vibrations.
Our products are used on military platforms, including aero bleed air and anti ice systems, as well as with bellows assemblies for military jets. We have also supplied bespoke exhaust ducts for land-based military vehicles. We look forward to continuing our work within this exciting, high-stakes industry.
Energy 
Senior Bird Bellows is a market-leader in the supply of dynamic solutions for the Energy industry and beyond. Our products are used on platforms worldwide, serving markets including Energy, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, and more.
We’ve worked within the Energy industry for more than forty years, manufacturing precise components for critical applications with high lifecycle, zero downtime and zero leakage requirements. Our engineers are experts in their craft, consistently designing and delivering high performance, cost effective solutions. Meanwhile, our state-of-the-art testing facility enables us to meet global performance standards.
Our bespoke Energy components include bellows assemblies, with materials including stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium and more. Our solutions are safe and reliable, engineered with flexibility and durability to withstand the extremes of liquid and gaseous environments for the long term.
Challenges we frequently overcome within this industry include a combination of pressure, temperature and extreme process conditions. Fast track delivery requirements are also regularly met, along with our clients’ bespoke testing requirements. The tests we undertake for our Energy products include: Mass Spectrometer Helium Leak, Internal/External Hydraulic Pressure, Cyclic, Cryogenic, PMI Hardness and more.
Medical 
We are a market-leader in the design, engineer and testing of groundbreaking solutions for the Medical industry and beyond.
Renowned for our impeccable safety standards, Senior Bird Bellows is the perfect fit for an industry that requires the ultimate level of precision and reliability. Medical devices have no room for error, and safety and cleanliness remain of the utmost importance. Our experienced engineers create dynamic components for critical applications, all of which demand high lifecycle, zero leakage and zero downtime. Each solution is designed with the clients’ bespoke prerequisites in mind, ensuring timescales, budget and testing requirements are met time and time again.
We have the knowledge and ability to design state-of-the-art solutions for the Medical industry. Our bespoke components for Medical settings include bellows assemblies, which may be utilised in devices including X-ray machines, respirators and circulation pumps. Our range of materials including stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium and more. Every solution is engineered with the resilience and longevity to withstand high-stakes Medical environments. Our process is fast and flexible, with fast track delivery requirements regularly met, along with clients’ bespoke testing requirements to meet the highest Medical manufacturing standards.
Pharmaceutical 
Senior Bird Bellows is a highly successful market-leader focused on the delivery of engineered solutions for the Pharmaceutical industry, and beyond.
Our bellows assemblies are utilised in mechanical seals of pharmaceutical, hygienic and aseptic applications. Each product is designed in conjunction with our clients’ bespoke requirements. We are renowned for our impeccable safety standards, which perfectly aligns us with high-stakes industries that have no room for error. Our team of talented engineers create dynamic components for a range of critical applications with high lifecycles and zero leakage demands. Each engineered solution is designed to specification, making applications safe, efficient and long-running whilst meeting timescales and budget requirements.
Our team of experienced engineers design dynamic solutions for the Pharmaceutical device manufacturers. Our bespoke components include bellows assemblies, with materials including stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium and more. Every bellows solution is engineered with the resilience, precision and longevity required for this high-stakes industry, meeting strict regulations and the highest manufacturing standards. Our state-of-the-art testing facility also allows us to meet every clients’ bespoke demands regarding testing and qualification.
Valve Bellows 
Senior Bird Bellows specialises in the design and manufacture of bellow and bellow assembles for sealed valve applications across the globe. Our team of experts are renowned for engineering bespoke solutions for extreme conditions, regularly solving the problems associated with high pressure, high temperature environments.
We have 46 years’ experience in designing bespoke bellows for valve applications, with world-class manufacturing facilities and state-of-the-art testing equipment. Our designs are tailored to clients’ exact specifications, and we also offer a fast track service to meet tight deadlines.
Our products are designed in accordance with a number of qualifications as well as being Nadcap approved. We hold a wide range of approvals and certifications, demonstrating our commitment to being the best in class whilst supporting individual client requirements.
We supply high integrity bellows assemblies in diameters from 12mm upwards, complete with end fittings to suit customer requirements. Our bellows are used to improve valve performance and protect the application from corrosive fluids.
The materials utilised in our valve bellows include stainless steel, nickel alloys, inconel, hastelloy and titanium. Our processes involve cold roll forming, elastomeric forming, expanding, sheet metal working, laser profiling, CNC turning and more. Performance is guaranteed by quality-assured welded construction and bespoke designs, and by including bellows in the valve design, the client benefits from higher quality and lower costs.
