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blades which cut up the pulp bedpans at high speed. When a nurse places, say, four soiled pulp bedpans into the hopper, the machine’s interior will be clean, with nothing left, the next time they open it. He said: “The risk of blockage with these machines is extremely low. The particle size is less than six millimetres, so you end up with a fine slurry.”
In-house expertise
As Stuart Anderson had explained, all product design is undertaken in house, in 3D, using CAD systems. David Brown explained that the engineers in the machine shop then take the CAD models and ‘convert’ them in the computer-aided manufacturing system, which in turn provides the programs to upload directly to the factory’s CNC lathes. We looked at an impeller where the bore and keyways were being put in.” David Brown explained that while metal – mainly stainless steel, aluminium, and brass – was bought in – all machining was undertaken ‘in house’. Some of the equipment, such as the bar feeding machines, run ‘24 /7’ unattended, producing items such as the spring assembly for the Quattro. The business holds not only 14001 environmental accreditation, but also ISO 9001 and BS OHSAS 18001. One of the newer machines is a sliding head bar machine for making smaller components from continuously fed bar, which again runs 24/7.
Macerators in construction in Haigh’s factory. All aspects of design, manufacturing, sales, installation, and co-ordination of maintenance, are centred at Ross-on-Wye.
Complex shapes We moved to another walkway to view a CNC machine tool that was essentially two lathes with a milling machine in the centre, a combination David Brown explained was capable of producing ‘some extremely complex shapes’; for instance it had been used to make, from aluminium, the prototype handle on one of the Classic macerators. As we progressed
we saw a number of part-assembled Quattro, Classic+, and SOLO macerators. David Brown explained that which model was selected by a healthcare customer would depend on its throughput and functionality needs – a care home’s requirements would be quite different to those of an acute hospital. One noticeable thing was the considerable amount of sub-assembly of
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