Head Wrightson News August 1978
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Head Wrightson news August 1978 £15m ETL order for HWM stages of winning the Yugoslav Sales negotiations, started two order their site engineers were and a half years ago, bore fruit busy completing a similar last month when a six strong sales electrolytic line at the Ebbw Vale team flew into Teesside airport works of British Steel Corporation from Yugoslavia with an order for which has now been a £15m tinplate plant to be built at commissioned in record time. Sabac, Belgrade for Hemijska This line was ordered from HWM lndustrija Zorka and Jugometal. just over three years ago to meet This will be the first electrolytic the rising demand for tinplate both tinning plant to be built in at home and overseas. With its Yugoslavia and it includes coil completion BSC have increased preparation, shearing and their tinplate capacity by over inspection lines. It will have a 200,000 tons a year and some idea potential output of 150,000 tonnes of the new line's capacity can be of tinned strip per year for use in gained by the fact that in just one the manufacture of tin cans for the shift it is able to produce sufficient food and packaging industry. tinplate to make nine million beer HWM beat Japanese, French and Cans. Electrolytic Tinning Plant at BSC Ebbw Vale Works. View of exit end with finished tinplate coil in centre foreground. German competition to win the Ebbw Vale was also the site for order and a contributory factor to the first ETL to be built outside of ffi5Tr§uccess was their technical America. This was installed in extraction system to collect the expertise in the design and supply 1947, and designed to run at 600 PEL know-how iron and aluminium dust as well of this kind of plant. Similar lines feet per minute is still in working as the oil fume mist. have been supplied by HWM to Order. wins £1/4m This is the first plant of this type the British Steel Corporation and The Strip Mills division of BSC to be supplied by PEL London and to the F]ussians, now have twelve lines in their they were able to win the £%m While this welcome addition to the group five of which have been order order because of their wide HWM order book could lead to supplied by HWM. A new engine plant being built by experience and engineering more engineering staff being taken An indication of the tremendous the Ford Motor Company at capability in dust and fume on next year it also means more advances in design and Bridgend is to incorporate extraction. work for the machine and technology that have taken place machine shop dust extraction The order includes eight small wet '`Divansco" scrubbers which are fabrication shops. It is estimated in this field is given by the speed equipment supplied by HWPEL that orders over £5m could be of the latest HWM line which runs London. In the new plant Fords manufactured by Environmental placed with the Middlesbrough three times as fast as the first one will be machining cast iron Emission Control Ltd and is the and Thornaby works. installed at Ebbw Vale thirty years cylinder block castings and for the first phase of the project. PEL have While HWM were in the final ago. first time will be making eylinder also submitted a bid for the heads in aluminium. Both of these second phase which has a similar operations require a dust contract value. temporary gas by-pass duct. This meant that work could take place Cleaner without any interruption to the production of sinter, thus saving asft, BSC several thousands of pounds. plant for The second precipitator which completes the ffm order will be ¢ a I/ ifei brought into operation in about aldipr,ill BSC nine months time. * tlvyM Sales Te?in ba_C4 at_Jeesside airport after securing £15m order in Y.ugos!ayjg..Left_ tp right Jim Scott, Peter Llewellyn, Alah Hurst, David Renshaw, The first of two electrostatic Jean Griffiths, John Spence and Bob Olley. precipitators being supplied to the BSC Appleby Frodingham sinter over £'/2m for a 2500 ton forging plant by HWPEL London, came press and a 350 ton "Wide Ram" into operation ahead of schedule Massey trimming press for a Ford on 29 June. expansion programme in their It is designed to clean sinter plant Forge Division. gases to a standard which will success at Not only does this represent meet the requirements of the immediate work for Massey's Alkali Inspectorate and should shops, but the total Ford help to counteract recent Ford programme involves more presses complaints at Scunthorpe Borough and having gained the first order Council Meetings about Massey should be well placed jn atmospheric pollution from the After months of hard negotiation the negotiations when Ford steelworks. involving visits by lan Ford, Terry conti.nue their exercise. Already, A novel feature of the order which Nunnington, John Rhodes and talks have been held involving a PEL received in 1976 was their Alan Knott to Fords, Dagenham, 1000 ton forging press and design solution for shortening B_SC Scynthorpe Appleby Frodingham and Cologne, Massey have another 350 ton ``Wide Ram" plant down time during succeeded in gaining orders worth Sinter Plant main strand precipitator trimmihg press. installation by means of a nearing completion. Massey break Ravenscraig ``A Credit" into The new No 3 sinter plant at BSC USA market Ravenscraig Works, Scotland, designed and supplied by HWPEL Immediate results have been Thornaby was officially opened on achieved by the National Welding Thursday 23 May by the Right Hon Corporation of Michigan who have Gregor MacKenzie MP, Minister of recently concluded an agreement State, Scottish Office. to represent B&S Massey in the United States. In a special feature in the BSC newspaper, `'Steel News" the They have sold two Massey '`Wide Ram" trimming presses, one 250 Divisional Managing Director of ton and one 350 ton, to Sifco, BSC Scottish Division, was reported as having said that the Cleveland, USA. The value of this order totals £132,000. Of more plant was ''already highly successful and a credit to the importance than the value is the contractors Head Wrightson". fact that this is the first sale of Mas§ey forging plant in the United To celebrate the opening HWPEL States since the war, in spite of held a private dinner party for British Steel Management quests a: I.h9 .H_vypEL dinner party years of frustrated sales efforts by 4 Massey trimming press -this one is ir!_clyded (left). ryicholas Mey5son i!|_Sta!le_d at A J Vaughan 8i Co (Mitre members at the Bruce Hotel, East Massey sales staff and directors. (P_e_lattre Lavivier) and BOJ Allison Works) Itd. Kilbride on the evening of 23 May. Massey have in the past made (BSC Ravenscraig). good sales of forging and trimming presses to Sifco Do Brasil, a subsidiary company in Brazil and evidently the New products performance of these machines has had a good influence on the parent company in the States. for Massey Thank As part of their efforts to obtain a larger slice of the market for forging equipment B&S Massey You have recently made two additions to.their product range. On Tuesday evening, July 4, It was announced in June that HWPEL held a Cocktail Party in the they had been appointed sole UK Four Seasons Suite of the Swallow Hotel, Stockton in appreciation of selling agent for the forging the employees' efforts and to mark equipment supplied by the German firm Franz Berrenberg. a highly successful and profitable This is a range of fast striking year for PEL. forging presses which is The occasion coincided with the complementary to existing Massey departure of Mr Neil Cherrett to products. The presses which take up his appointment as incorporate friction screw drive T.h.e,O_!¥!a! SL:?FLU_P:Pf.Ptio.n at Bsf.R.?Yen.scr3_ig vy_arks No 3 sinter plant was Managing Director of Davy and electro pneumatic control are Ashmore International Ltd, and the p_emfp_rmed by The RI Hon. Gregor MCKenzie, MF, wi;-i-;t;;-of-§;;;;: 5;-;;i:.h used for die forging steel off-,ce. arrival from DAl of PEL's new components and hot pressing in Managing Director, Dr Keith Hoyle. non-ferrous metals. The buffet supper was enjoyed by They are also now able to provide all, and judging by the number of the ``Milwaukee Pow'r Arm" a enquirers wishing to know the device which, when attached to a Goodwill visit date of the next Cocktail Party, it press or hammer, enables one may be safely assumed that the man to easily lift or lower large evening was much appreciated by dies and tooling etc. This device the 260 plus members of staff who can handle a load of up to 2000 attended. lbs. 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