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THE DRIVE BEHIND THE CLIMB TO THE TOP -
Climbing Platform has smooth servodrive control
A radical new type of Climbing Platform powered by Control
Techniques servo-drives controlling long reach actuators has been
designed by Delta International, the UK’s leading chimney
contracting company.
When Delta could not find a proprietary modular Climbing
Platform to satisfy the high standards of their on-site engineers
strengthening the 94 metre refinery chimney at BP Coryton, their
solution was to design their own. The result was a fast-climbing,
ultra-safe modular system that can be adapted to suit most chimney
contracts.
The specification had to meet demanding criteria– a 3 tonne
uniformly distributed service load, ease of operator use,
anti-skewing features, automatic expansion and contracting to adapt
to different structures and compliance with all UK and European
codes of practice.
Knowing the importance of the BP Coryton contract and the scale
of the task involved, Delta’s Senior Engineer, Nigel Matthews,
spent six months planning, designing and fabricating the Electronic
Climbing Platform, the most advanced ever seen in the construction
industry.
“We realised that the success of this depended on the accuracy
and reliability of the drive / actuator combination,” says Nigel
Matthews, “so we took a lot of care in researching the market. We
chose linear actuators from Industrial Devices of Shrewsbury and
they recommended Control Techniques drives as being the best to
provide the level of control, communications and on-board
programming that we needed.”>>>>>>>
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