Goodfellow's CEO Simon Kenny at the Advanced Materials ShowOne of the UK’s leading suppliers of advanced metals and materials is looking to build on strong double-digit international growth when it heads to the Advanced Materials Show 2026 being held next month (July 8th - 9th) at the NEC Birmingham.
Goodfellow, which has recorded significant increases in revenue in Europe and North America, will be tackling the ‘Scaling up Challenge’ when it delivers a keynote speech at the event on the opening day.
CEO Simon Kenney will explain why small variations matter when pushing the boundaries of innovation and how his company is increasingly working with global customers during the initial R&D phase and onwards to ensure continuity of production once the technology moves out of the lab and into real-world reality.
Having supplied small quantities of highly specialised advanced materials globally for many years, Goodfellow continues to expand its offer, whilst also providing customers with free technical support and continuity of supply and specification to help them scale up.
He will outline live examples from the semiconductor sector and an advanced medical alloy, both of which have overcome challenges around long-term performance, material parameters and, increasingly, geopolitical tensions.
This will be followed by a live Behind the Scenes: Closing the Gap Between Discovery and Production podcast from the show on July 9th, where a 30-minute discussion with sector experts will lead into a Q&A session.
Simon Kenney said: “Our business plays a critical role in innovation-led industries, where quality, precision, and reliability are critical. Increasingly, we are being involved in the earlier development of new technologies, especially when new grades of material or advanced alloys are brought into the equation.
“We are continually posed with the real-world problem of moving from small-batch development work in the lab to long-term operational performance in the field and that’s what we’ll be discussing at the Advanced Materials Show in July.”
He continued: “If we can work together to connect discovery to production properly, then scaling stops being the constraint - it becomes the advantage. This is really giving us a competitive USP, and this is leading to double-digit growth for us in what has been a hugely turbulent marketplace.”
Goodfellow, which supplies more than 170,000 different products, is entering the fifth year of its ambitious growth journey with the focus on a mix of strategic acquisitions and continued investment in its core capabilities.
This has seen the installation of new equipment and operational processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and responsiveness across its global operations, improving precision handling capabilities and streamlining order fulfilment to deliver faster lead times and world class quality.
In addition to the keynote address and sponsorship of the main stage, the firm will also be discussing specific engineering challenges at the Advanced Materials Show.
Visitors can talk to Goodfellow experts about sourcing rare, specialist or hard-to-find materials, selecting the right materials for demanding technical applications and custom components and microfabrication requirements.
Kevin Marceau, product marketing manager at Goodfellow, went on to add: “There have been several new product launches in the last twelve months, with more than 1200 new SKUs added to our high-purity foil range and nine new stainless steel grades serving applications where specific corrosion resistance, mechanical, or thermal properties are required.
“They have been joined by 172 new SKUs in MACOR machinable glass ceramics and four new grades of titanium alloys – used extensively in aerospace structures, biomedical implants, chemical processing equipment and marine engineering.”
He concluded: “We’re not stopping there and will shortly be adding 99.99% (4N) platinum crucibles to our range for high temperature laboratory and analytical applications and, excitingly, our own-brand polyimide film for flex PCB applications. The latter will target the rapidly expanding flexible and wearable electronics sector.”
You can visit Goodfellow on Stand 318 at the Advanced Materials Show, which is free to attend at the NEC, Birmingham 8-9 July 2026. To register visit the show website.