Biomass Screw Feeder Upgrade
We recently supplied a new Motovario gearmotor and Invertek inverter drive. These items were selected as part of a biomass screw feeder upgrade project to replace an existing mechanical speed variator unit. The customer was having to frequently stop and start the old mechanical variator unit as it was feeding too fast even at its […]
Hospital Heating Pumps
We recently supplied 3 new twinset Armstrong heating pumps for one of our hospital clients. These were to replace some very old pumps that had come to the end of their useful life. Twinset pumps have 2 rotating heads built into the one single casting to enable a duty & standby arrangement where one pump […]
Dynamic Balancing Machine Calibration
It’s that time of year again. Time for our CEMB Hofmann dynamic balancing machine to have its annual service and calibration. A reliable workhorse, it has enabled us to support a large number of customers this past year with a complete in-house dynamic balancing service. We have balanced pump impellers, fan impellers, flywheels, drums, rotors […]
Fan Unit Rebuild
We received a motorised impeller driven fan unit rebuild recently from a local hospital. The unit was somewhat bespoke and the customer insisted it was repaired due to where it was sited and the physical differences and lead time on a new replacement. The impeller of this unit is driven by it’s own built-in external […]
Forklift DC Motor Replacement
A forklift DC motor next to it’s replacement. After a very tough life, the motor on the left came in to us for some TLC. Our repair team was ready to carry out a Baker & surge test to the windings then stove & fully re-insulate them with anti-tracking varnish. They would then machine and […]
Replacement DC Motor
We recently received a Siemens DC motor from a customer that had failed in service. Upon dismantling and fully inspecting the motor we found that it had failed in a catastrophic manner. We did not need to use any test meters or our Baker tester as the damage was obvious with a large hole in […]
Our Site Team Saves the Big Day!
Recently on a Monday morning we were tasked with carrying out a very urgent pump repair. We received a phone call from a hotel and the concerned manager informed us that they had no incoming water supply. He had located the problem to a pump that had failed and told us that they had wedding […]
Grundfos Pump Installation
This week our site team attended our customer’s premises to carry out a Grundfos pump installation where they removed a faulty twin headed Grundfos pump and replaced it with a new modern and more efficient Grundfos Magna 1 pump unit. Adhering to Covid safe practices we attended site, disconnected and removed the faulty pump and […]
Introducing our new Operations Manager
We’re really pleased to announce the appointment of our new Operations Manager Dave Cooper. Dave started with the company way back when he was 16 years old and trained as a winder. He then progressed through the company, training in other departments as a fitter and site engineer and finally joined the office team as […]
Flail Dynamic Balancing
We had a new customer contact us recently with a flail dynamic balancing requirement. They were a company that processed straw into animal bedding and periodically had to repair the flails from their machinery as they literally took quite a battering. These would have the arms repaired by the customer and welded and subsequently needed […]