The production of turbines for power stations is one of the flagships of Gasparin OMG's precision machining of large products. Gasparin OMG realises large components for turbines developing powers in hundreds of Megawatt. The larger product is shown in the image in the square: a single casing for 6000 mm wide and 4000 mm high, turbine. Mechanical constructions concern different energy sectors: the workshops work on gas turbines, steam turbines and wind turbines. Shown in the gallery images are the turbines foreign bodies, drive shafts for wind turbine and an example of loop machining. The steam turbine, and even more the gas turbine, is a mechanical element subjected to strong stresses, among which the mechanical and thermal stresses. Consider that the shaft of a turbine and the rotor elements (blades) turn at a speed of thousands of rpm, transmitting hundreds of Megawatt of power, with working temperatures around hundreds of degrees centigrades.

The steel used to realise said turbines is a special steel that also resists to machining. Precision must be centesimal. Only first-rate mechanical workshops and with equipment for managing heavy and large steel bodies, can handle this type of machining. Intrinsic machining difficulties like the extra-long drilling, require suitable and competent machines: errors are not admitted. Multinational companies in the electric energy sector, certify their suppliers, classifying them according to importance of the products to be machined. Different are the considered parameters and a subsequent level of certification is normally obtained only after having supplied products falling within the current certification, for a certain period of time. In time, Gasparin OMG has gained the maximum certification level available (not nuclear), on different supplies. The following example prove the ability and qualifications of the Gasparin OMG mechanical workshops.