The business, run by two brothers, undertakes work on historic steam railway locomotive boilers and associated specialist engineering work. They undertake a complete service – from the smallest repair to the design, manufacture and assembly of an entire steam boiler.
The £3,680 Business Adaptation Grant enabled the purchase of an industrial plasma cutter. This is a machine which uses electricity and compressed air to cut metal plates - including materials such as copper and stainless steel which cannot be cut by tradition oxy-propane cutting torches.The new equipment thus enables the cutting of thick copper boiler plates and saves labour and carbon emissions when cutting steel boiler plates.
John Eastwood (Managing Director) says:
This machine saves us time and effort almost every day and has allowed us to venture into a new business area, supplying bespoke formed copper boiler plates alongside our standard steel boiler plates. This sort of support is invaluable to support our growth as a small business.
