SFC Fasteners

SFC Dubai, along with its associate company SFC Europe, is a supplier of high-integrity, safety critical fastener products to the oil, gas, power generation, petrochemical and heavy engineering industries. With over 85 years of combined fastener experience and knowledge, SFC has the capability to meet the most demanding requirements.

High-integrity fasteners

SFC specialises in products manufactured from alloy, stainless, duplex and super-duplex steels, in addition to exotic materials, such as Inconel, Hastelloy and Monel. The company creates standard and speciality fasteners that are used in high-temperature, high-pressure and corrosive environments, such as subsea, oil, gas and power generation applications, as well as petroleum and petrochemical refineries.

A full range of petrochemical grade bolts and products, semi-finished products for quick conversion to non-standard sizes and raw materials for specialist stud bolts and fasteners are held in-stock. Raw materials are stocked in diameters from 6mm to 150mm. Products include:

SFC's brand new manufacturing facility in Dubai.
Safety critical fasteners for the oil and gas Industries.
SFC has extensive capabilities for machined components.
Over 1,000t in stock holding, ready for immediate dispatch.
In-house PTFE coatings on fasteners and special components are available.
In-house thread rolling up to 6in/150mm.
  • Stud bolts
  • Heavy hexagon nuts
  • Threaded bars
  • 12pt bolts
  • Socket cap screws

Specialist PTFE and ceramic coatings

Working with its partner Whitfords, SFC can provide a comprehensive range of specialist coatings, including Xylan and Xylar. Additional coatings offered are Everslik, Everlube and Sermaguard. SFC Dubai has its own in-house blasting and PTFE coating facility with a forced air recirculating oven, computer temperature control with data recorder for complete traceability and process verification. The oven has an internal working dimension of (L) 3m x (W) 2.5m x (H) 2.4m and a maximum temperature of 400°C. SFC can coat a wide range of fasteners, machined components and BOPs, and offers PTFE coating on a subcontract basis.

Components for heavy industries

A full range of fully traceable petrochemical and high-grade bolting products, valued at over $4m, are held in stock in Dubai and the UK. Our new modern manufacturing facility in Dubai has the latest in CNC, VMC, heat treatment, automatic high-capacity NC saws and thread rolling capabilities. Combined with our conventional machining equipment, we are able to offer a fast and responsive service of special, quality-critical fasteners and machined components.

Precision machined components

SFC uses the latest CNC lathes and vertical machining centre technologies to provide a complete solution for custom-made parts that match customer standards and specifications. The company’s Dubai facility has the capability to produce parts up to 300mm in diameter and 1,100mm long in a variety of materials and thread types, with on-site high-capacity thread roller of up to 6in/150mm in diameter.

SFC also provides:

  • Cutting
  • Drilling
  • Tapping
  • Heat treatment
  • Grinding
  • Slotting
  • Broaching
  • Protective coatings, including zinc plating and electroless nickel, HDG, phosphate and PTFE coatings

About SFC Fasteners

SFC is an ISO-9001: 2008-registered company supplying products for upstream, downstream and subsea environments throughout the MENA APAC region. The company has an extensive range of safety-critical fasteners, specialist coatings, precision machined parts and raw materials, which conform to a wide range of ASTM/ASME/ANSI/DIN/ISO-compliant bolting from stock for immediate dispatch.

Employing more than 50 people across its manufacturing and stockholding facilities in Dubai and the UK, SFC offers a logistical supply and product service to a wide range of industries that require quality and safety-critical products with full traceability. SFC is committed to continual investment in its manufacturing and technical capability.