This highly innovative project was undertaken for Ridgway Machines Ltd, in Anstey, Leicester, a leading UK manufacturer of taping machines for electrical conductors and large diameter tubes. Ridgway supplied the Taping Machine to a customer in China. The machine is used for wrapping continuous lengths of extruded plastic pipe with steel tape. The pipe is made in various diameters from 50mm to 150mm (2”-6”) bore, in lengths up to 1km. It is spirally wound with Read more
Peter Grant Papers, in Telford, is the UK’s largest independent soft tissue manufacturer, converting 15,000 tons of tissue paper per year produced by its Lancaster mill into toilet paper, hand and face towels, and wipes for the healthcare, catering and industrial sectors. At the heart of the company’s environmental policy is the maxim, “Being kind to the environment is at the core of everything we do.” As such, Peter Grant Papers endeavours to reduce waste, Read more
When AWE Newtech Limited, a leading manufacturer of resin impregnation machines for electric motors, realised that significant savings could be made in the cost of their flagship machines by introducing distributed control, they approached my company to develop a suitable process control board. Newtech’s machines are used for impregnating the windings of stators up to IEC 200/NEMA 320 frame (up to 100kg/220lb) with insulating resin. The machines use resins which must be cured at elevated Read more
This project for the Japanese life sciences company, Olympus Diagnostica, in Ireland, was to replace an existing machine that was unreliable with a new machine designed and built by for consistently screwing caps onto bottles to a precisely-controlled, repeatable torque. The machine is constructed primarily in stainless steel, with an aluminium alloy superstructure, for use in a clean room. My company was given just three days to install the new machine and get it working Read more
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