BFPA welcomes new consultant member MGR Fluid Engineering Limited
06 Feb 2025
We are delighted to welcome MGR Fluid Engineering Limited as a BFPA consultant member in 2025.
MGR Fluid Engineering Limited was established by Mike Retford, an engineering consultant backed by 30 years of experience of designing, building, installing, commissioning, and maintaining hydraulic systems. Mike holds an MSC in Fluid Systems and has been a Chartered Mechanical Engineer for 30 years. His Fluid Power career started in the Steel Industry in Port Talbot and then worked for system manufacturers, solving machine problems, and designing new systems. He formed MGR Fluid Power in 2007 and had a great deal of success commissioning military vehicles and aero engine test cells. Mike is now back in business as an independent consultant. Having worked in variety of markets and systems, Mike is equally at home on site or in the office, having a practical capability to diagnose problems accurately. As MGR Fluid Engineering the focus is on providing the following services:
- Design services – designing new systems or assisting with the certification of existing systems.
- On site services – helping solve problems on new or existing hydraulic systems, providing reports and documentation to support the investigations.
- Training – specifically aimed at customers systems on their sites. Experienced in working out what the customer has got, even if they have no documentation.
- Project management – particularly the installation and commissioning phases of hydraulic systems projects, supported by technical competence in the management of these phases.
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