News
Editor’s Comment
This issue of Solids and Bulk Handling magazine has two exhibition previews - Powtech and Total. Exhibitions are very
productive, and
provide a rare opportunity to do some face-to-face business. To ensure you get the most out of your visit plan your day before you go. Know what you are looking for and decide what stands you want to see before you get there. At the very most, you will have an effective visit to a dozen stands. You could make appointments to ensure you see who you want.
Although wandering around the exhibition is a good way to stumble across a company you have never heard of, bump into some old faces, or watch a demonstration or two, this should be put off until the end of the day. Time at an exhibition goes really fast, so make sure you don’t waste any and pre-register before you get there. Armed with your visitor badge, you can walk straight in, rather than queueing up and filling in forms. Our previews start on page 46. Total Processing & Packaging takes place at the NEC from 25-27 May. We have a stand at Total, so please stop by stand 5200 and say hello.
Kelly Rose Editor
kellyrose@quartzltd.com
MoD contract cemented
Merseyside-based Nurock Limited, the UK’s only designer and manufacturer of specialist volumetric concrete mixers, has won a prestigious contract to supply new equipment and product support that will be used by the Ministry of Defence for the next 12 years. The first year’s deal worth £600,000 is for six highly specified mixers which will be used in the repair of airfield runways in the event of bomb damage and for rebuilding work.
Nurock fought off stiff competition from suppliers around the world to be awarded the contract by ALC (SPC), which is leasing construction equipment to the Ministry of Defence in an innovative PFI deal worth £600 million deal over 15 years. “The process was exhaustive, ALC and the MoD left no stone unturned in their analysis of each company’s equipment,” said Graham Jones, managing director of Nurock Mixers.
“The mixers are used with a specialised rapid hardening cement to produce concrete that is hard enough to land a fully armed Tornado fighter within three hours. Nurock’s mixer achieved the highest strengths of all the manufacturers during trials. Everyone at Nurock is enormously proud that our mixers will play a crucial role in allowing planes to land in emergency situations when every second counts. Other concrete mixing duties are planed by the MoD once the mixers come into service this year,” said Jones. Winning this prestigious contract has enabled Nurock to provide new jobs and opportunities for the local area. Nurock has also secured £75,000 worth of funding from the North West Development Agency for further investment in training and product development, including 100 per cent stocking of spare parts, which is required to support the mixers fully in operation.
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