Centrax Limited is a privately-owned company based in Newton Abbot, Devon in the South West of England. The company was founded in 1946 by Richard H H Barr OBE and the late Geoffrey R White after both worked with Sir Frank Whittle in the Power Jets Design Team during the Second World War - pioneering the use of the gas turbine for use in aircraft propulsion.

This background, together with over 60 years of experience in the industry, has given Centrax a worldwide reputation for quality and reliability in the power generation and complex component manufacture markets.

Today, Centrax comprises 2 manufacturing divisions - the Gas Turbine Division (GTD) and Turbine Components Limited (TCL), employing approximately 700 people across its Newton Abbot site and European depots. Centrax is approved to ISO9001:2000, AS9100 Rev A:2001 and ISO14001:2004 and is committed to Nadcap accreditation for special processes. With a £68m annual turnover in 2007, GTD and TCL combine to service diverse customers, products and markets.

Specialising in power generation, the Gas Turbine Division supplies gas turbine-driven generator sets - of their own design and exclusively incorporating Rolls Royce turbines - in the range 2.5 to 60 MW, for the power generation/cogeneration markets worldwide.

Turbine Components Limited is an approved supplier of high-quality complex machined components and assemblies to many of the major Original Equipment Gas Turbine engine manufacturing companies (OEM’s) world-wide, for Civil and Military Aerospace and Industrial gas turbines applications as well as for Military Auxiliary Power Units.