Case studies
Engineered lifting solutions in the field.
Selected projects delivered across UK rail depots, steel mills, aerospace fabrication halls, grid-scale power installations and civil nuclear decommissioning programmes.
- Aerospace
- Aluminium
- Specialist steels
- Steel
A family of billet lifting beams for a global aluminium leader
Coordinated range of purpose-built lifting beams covering the full variety of billets produced on one of the most advanced primary aluminium facilities in the Middle East.
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85-tonne motorised duplex slab tong for ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India
Heavy-duty motorised duplex slab tong designed to lift slabs up to 85 tonnes at temperatures approaching 1,000 °C across a demanding slab envelope — for one of India's leading integrated steel producers.
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A hydraulic billet tong built to outlast its predecessor
15-tonne hydraulic billet tong for a leading European specialist-steel mill — direct replacement for a Somers tong that ran reliably for 20+ years, Factory-Acceptance-Tested at Wednesbury under customer witness.
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Automatic duplex slab tong for the world's largest aluminium recycler
A purpose-designed 25-tonne automatic duplex slab tong, specified by name by an Indian aluminium recycler already operating Somers equipment — joining a fleet built on two decades of proven performance.
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Adjustable aircraft lifting beam — 35 tonne SWL, under five tonnes self-weight
Purpose-designed adjustable lifting beam for suspending a complete aircraft inside an anechoic chamber, engineered to maintain the aircraft's centre of gravity directly below the suspension point regardless of load configuration — and weighing under five tonnes despite a 35-tonne safe working load.
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