15 June 2015, 08:00
Did you know that in June Penny Hydraulics are currently working on high profile mechanical handling projects with the likes of Buckingham Palace, GlaxoSmithKline, BEA Systems, British Telecom, Burberry, Airbus and Goldman Sachs?
With over 37 years’ experience in mechanical handling equipment, Penny Hydraulics are the lifting equipment supplier of choice throughout the UK with more and more big names and prestigious companies turning to the company for mechanical handling design, manufacture, installation and service work.
The projects at Buckingham Palace, Burberry and Goldman Sachs are with our Raising & Lowering Systems division of the Penny Hydraulics Group. R & L Systems supply and install raising and lowering equipment for lighting installations such as chandeliers and high mast lighting, allowing maintenance of otherwise inaccessible light fittings and installations from ground level. We offer manual, electric, remote controlled, interior and exterior winching systems. Our complete design package means that we work closely with architects and structural engineers through the commissioning, manufacture, installation and maintenance stages of a project.
The work in progress at BEA Systems and Airbus involves the design, manufacture and installation of mezzanine floor lift goods lifts. Our versatile and innovative MezzLift is designed specifically to customers requirements to move goods safely and efficiently between two (or more) floors in warehouses, retail outlets, stores and distribution centres throughout the UK. Both customers have also taken advantage of a Penny Hydraulics planned maintenance programme for mezzanine floor lifts to ensure that servicing and Statutory Examinations (LOLER tests) are carried out throughout the lifetime of the product.
British Telecom are one of Penny Hydraulics longest standing customers and to this day are still the chosen supplier of lifting equipment for BT fleets in the UK. One of the first ever vehicle mounted cranes designed by Penny Hydraulics was a 100kg capacity lightweight SwingLift crane for lifting telecommunications equipment in and out of the rear doors of BT vans. The bespoke crane stowed unobtrusively to one side when not in use but could, within seconds, be deployed to lift heavy loads in and out of the vehicle by one man via the safety and convenience of remote control. Today we have further hundreds of SwingLift electric cranes for vans for BT in manufacture, continuing this long standing relationship. With the introduction of the new range of hydraulic Maxilift PH hydraulic cranes for trucks and pickups, we are sure that BT will progress onto these new highly sophisticated and lightweight cranes in due course.