Members’ News
22 Oct 2020
Hull-based safety expert relocates Industrial Hose Division to a new £2m purpose-built facility
UK Safety Expert and BFPDA member Arco has recently moved its Industrial Hose Division to a new larger facility of 17,500m3, next door to Arco’s National Distribution Centre (NDC), on the outskirts of Hull. As one of the UK’s biggest industrial hose distributors, the new facility contains a dedicated and comprehensive range of industrial hose solutions suitable for all types of industries and applications.
As part of Arco’s investment programme, the new £2m purpose-built facility provides increased storage capacity as well as improved efficiencies for working and more accessible machinery, allowing for quicker turn-around of customer orders, with the majority of stock lines orders processed in less than 24 hours.
The new facility also contains a dedicated workroom area, featuring an upstairs mezzanine for small hose assembly with bench top working and a new flexible working space downstairs to enable projects of different sizes and capacities to be accommodated. Significant investment in equipment has allowed the team to add a custom-made test container for pressure testing larger assemblies, alongside two smaller fully contained cabinets, creating a safer working environment for operatives whilst ensuring that all hoses are safe to use for their intended application. The facility also houses an office on-site for its specialist customer service team who offer customers expert guidance on choosing the right hose products, as well as advice on hose safety and relevant legislation.
Hoses are used in a wide variety of companies in many sectors, from workshops and light manufacturing businesses, to large utilities, heavy manufacturing and offshore drilling operations. The right hose products are essential for efficient operations, as well as for worker safety, so it is important to get the right products, at the right specifications, tested and fit for each application.
Providing customers with reliable equipment, Arco Industrial Hose Division offers customers access to over 3,000 product lines and over 600,000 meters of hose. Working each year with more than 4,000 trading accounts, the team has over 200 years of industry knowledge enabling them to deliver expert advice on an array of hose products and applications.
Daniel Frith, Product & Procurement Manager – Industrial Hose, said: “The move to this new facility will provide greater storage capacity for our products and a working environment that’s more flexible for the team, meaning that we can sustain and even improve upon our current customer service levels, as well as enable our future growth ambitions.”
For more information about Arco’s Industrial Hose provision, for technical support or expert advice, please contact Arco Industrial Hose or visit https://www.arco.co.uk/expert_advice_hose_ducting
For more information, visit www.arco.co.uk.
Delta Motion signs new distribution agreements in UK, Netherlands and Belgium
BFPA member and industrial motion control manufacturer Delta Motion Ltd has signed a new authorised distributor in the UK in Warwickshire: Computer Controlled Solutions Ltd (CCS). CCS serves customers requiring software control systems, test machines, production machines and data acquisition systems in the aerospace, automotive, rail, and renewable energy industries throughout the United Kingdom. CCS has been an Alliance Member of National Instruments for more than 25 years; they have the expertise and experience to successfully integrate a custom LabView program into a test system with superior results. Adding Delta’s products enables CCS to focus on engineering excellent software, while relying on Delta’s RMC motion controllers to produce fast, micron level accuracy.
CCS has a proven track record of customer service and support. CCS capabilities include expertly building test systems from the ground up, or retrofitting new, modern control systems based around an RMC controller into an existing test rig, extending the system’s service life. CCS brings their expertise in software control systems ensuring the best design and user experience.
Says Delta CEO Steve Nylund, “With their strong engineering skills, CCS helps us with our goal of providing lasting value and exceptional support to our European customers.” Nylund continues, “As Delta continues to expand our global presence, distributors that add value with their industry experience and content knowledge are critically important as our direct connection to the customer. We are pleased to have a strong engineering firm like CCS providing our products to the European market.”
In addition, a new distribution agreement has also been signed between Delta and tsb-bescom of Duiven, Netherlands. tsb-bescom offers customers in the Netherlands and Belgium a line of complementary industrial sensor and control technology. The company has expertise and product offerings for several specific markets and applications including marine and offshore, renewable energy, food, packaging, metals processing, and rail transportation.
States Delta CEO Steve Nylund, “A key component to Delta’s success are distributors who go beyond simply selling components and rather become an important resource to help the customer’s project succeed. Having distributors across the globe who can support the customer before, during, and after the sale is critical to Delta’s commitment to customer service and value.” Adds Nylund, “The addition of tsb-bescom is an example of Delta’s long-term commitment to developing new markets in the global marketplace.”
Click here for Delta Motion Ltd contact details.
Gates delivers new webinar series to meet market’s demand for increased online support
BFPA member Gates, a leading global provider of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions, has unveiled a new series of short technical and commercial webinars designed to increase support for its industrial product ranges throughout EMEA. The webinar sessions will allow Gates’ technical experts the opportunity to address specific topics, ranging from live product unveilings, a virtual tour of the testing facility to technical trainings on safety, and provide technical support and improved access to essential data.
Gates recently released a number of fluid power and power transmission product-focused webinars to pilot the program which were met with great success, this included a live unveiling of the new MXG™ 4K hose.
The new webinar series will include additional product-focused offerings as well as technical trainings. Gates’ ‘Crimper Training’, for example, will review practicalities involved with hose assemblies, identify safety measures to consider and outline steps to prevent contamination. The ‘e-Crimp’ webinar will provide users with enhanced product information as well as tips and tricks as how to access the most appropriate data available to ensure the most effective and efficient crimping results. Subsequent webinars will also include in-depth technical case studies, as well as solutions to overcome common problems that may emerge in the field and additional subject areas identified by distributors, who are often the first call for technical support.
Full details of the webinar schedule (upto December 2020) and details as how to register are available from: https://www.gates.com/gb/en/knowledge-centre/training/live-webinars.html
BFPA Minimum Educational Recommendations (MERs) – HYDRAULICS – Gets LEP FINANCIAL Support
The National Fluid Power Centre has become a Skills Bank Training Provider and working closely with the Sheffield City Region Growth Hub, has secured a 60% discount price for all companies and organisation in the in the Sheffield City Region including Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham. This discount is for key staff to attend the NFPC to complete the BFPA MER in Hydraulics. This level of discount will greatly support the continued Staff Development within Companies at a time when the constraints of COVID-19 pushes their finances to the limit. This MER is delivered via Technical online Webinars via ZOOM and Follow-on Practical Skills Development days at the NFPC.
Feel contact John Savage for further details by email at jsavage@nfpc.co.uk and visit the SCR Skills Bank Directory – https://skillsbankscr.co.uk/product-category/all-courses/engineering/
Stockport Hydraulics Limited moves premises
BFPDA member and BFPA Approved Hose Assemblies Scheme member Stockport Hydraulics Ltd have relocated with their new address being:
Stockport Hydraulics Ltd
Gorsey Mount Street
Stockport
Cheshire
SK1 3BU
Telephone number remains the same: 0161 477 5825
University of Bath, Centre for Power Transmission & Motion Control
We would like to update you on how we are adapting the Centre’s course offerings to the current situation. Just last week, we successfully held our on-line course “FP1 Introduction to hydraulic circuits and components” and we will be running “FP2 Component selection for hydraulic systems”, 3-6 November 2020 before offering our unique “FPN Noise in hydraulic systems” course 27-29 January 2021. Due to the unclear development of Covid restrictions and the positive feedback from our first online course, we have decided to run all courses as online courses until summer 2021 and we also have a new date for the postponed Electrical Drives course: 20-23 April 2021.
If you sign up to our online courses, you will be given early access to pre-recorded lectures and notes. Then, during the scheduled dates, there will be a suggested order of lectures and exercises. At specific times throughout the week, we will conduct live sessions for those exercises as well as for general questions and answers. You will also have the opportunity to use the chat and email systems to send questions to staff. We believe that this allows the best mixture of flexibility and interactivity given the ongoing situation. Our upcoming courses are, in order of dates:
FP2 Component selection for hydraulic systems
3-6 November 2020 (online)
FPN Noise in hydraulic systems
27-29 January 2021 (online)
This is a great opportunity to participate in this specialist course which we do not offer on a regular basis. We have now had enough interest to confirm the dates. This course teaches the sources and propagation of noise in hydraulic systems, discusses how we can measure noise levels and introduces countermeasures.
FP1 Introduction to hydraulic circuits and components
16-19 February 2021 (online)
FP2 Component selection for hydraulic systems
9-12 March 2021 (online)
ED Electrical drives for mechanical engineers
20-23 April 2021 (online)
FP3 Hydraulic systems and efficiency
11-14 May 2021 (online)
FPC Control of electrohydraulic systems
8-11 June 2021 (online)
or choose the 2-day course:
C Introduction to control of mechatronic systems
8-9 June 2021 (online)
After this date, we hope to return to in-person courses. You can visit our website for the complete list of courses
University of Bath, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
Email: PTMC@Bath.ac.uk
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