JUNE 2010:
CONGRATULATIONS!!! RaSHCo has won a place as one of the top three finalists in the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce - Innovation Awards! The winner is to be announced at the forthcoming Manchester Innovation Summit, to be held at Manchester Airport on the 18th June 2010.
Thank you to all our customer's and supplier's who have supported The Reel and Shaft Handling Company's growth by innovation and we look forward to continuing to work with and for you in the future!
WISH US GOOD LUCK!
MAY 2010:
MANAGING DIRECTOR'S INVENTION IS 'DISCOVERED' BY TELEVISION CREW!
As Stephen Weston began crash testing of his Pregnancy Seatbelt Harness invention at Bolton University, he was visited by a film crew from "The Discovery Channel" programme, "Daily Planet". The producers wanted to witness first hand the initial testing of the invention, which could save 000's of lives of unborn babies, when their mother's are involved in even low speed crashes!
The producers, based in Canada, first contacted Stephen in November of last year, but with attending the ICE 2009 exhibition in Munich, it would not fit into the film crew's schedule. However when they heard that the crash tests were due to commence in May, complete with newly patented, "Willans" compact buckle fitted, they immediately arranged to take a full days filming of the crash tests at Bolton University and filming at The Reel and Shaft Handling Company's works, in Bury.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL FILMING CRASH TEST
MARCH 2010:
WOW! WE ARE UP FOR AN INNOVATION AWARD!
Four and a half years after starting-up to develop two inventions and a unique range of Reel & Shaft Handling equipment, The Reel and Shaft Handling Company, (RaSHCo), is in the running for The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, 'Innovation Award'.
The RaSHCo's inventive and innovative drive has been recognised many times and has been reported in trade press editorials, regional and national newspapers, Mother & Baby websites, international automotive publications and BBC radio, which in turn has led to recent approaches from the Discovery Channel and the BBC television networks!
You can read the "Masters of Invention" report on our Innovation Award entry, together with panel members comments in the March edition of the on-line version of the magazine, (pages 4 & 5), at: CLICK HERE TO VISIT: www.53degreesonline. (NB: After March, click on the Archive button of the magazine, (2nd button, bottom of page) and choose edition 40).
JANUARY 2010:
ALL AT The RaSHCo WISH ALL OUR CUSTOMERS, SUPPLIERS AND FRIENDS, A HAPPY, HEALTHY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
Also, we wish to introduce you to our latest employee, Mr Frosty, The Salesman. The post is a temporary one, in which Mr. Frosty will be promoting RaSHCo's new range of "LV" Reel Handling Trolleys. Mr Frosty was happy to prove himself up to the challenge and immediately started to familiarise himself with the new "LV" EM1000 model, which can lift and cradle reels up to 1000Kg x 1000mm diameter, from pallet height.
The "LV" represents a new thinking in Reel Handling trolleys with the reel cradle rotating from the "L" position for loading/unloading, to the "V" position for transporting the reel, which means reels of all diameters are cradled safely.
RaSHCo's Managing Director commented, "We are happy to welcome Mr. Frosty. He is a chilled out guy, with a universal appeal and like our new range of "LV" Reel Handling trolleys, (Which were appropriately first shown at ICE 2009, last November) and our "Reel Turner Mk3" Reel Turning trolleys, he is new, cool and brings pleasure to everyone that knows him!"
For more information on the new "LV" & "Reel Turner Mk3" ranges of Reel Handling trolleys, please e-mail Mr Frosty at:
DECEMBER 2009: INNOVATIVE NEW REELSTAND DESIGN LAUNCHED!
December saw the first of three Portable-Multiple-Cantilevered-Unwind Stands completed. Each of the three Reelstands will unwind four x 400Kg reels whilst constantly reporting the weight of each reel to remote readouts. To load the reels, two RaSHCo AF/E/500 Reel Handling trucks are supplied, each fitted with laser height guides and automatic speed control that slows the trucks as they approach the reelstand.
FROSTY THE SALESMAN
NOVEMBER 2009: OOOPS......WE'VE JUST MADE AN EXHIBITION OF OURSELVES!
ICE 2009 Is over and what a show we had! First, we have to thank everyone, customers, colleagues, suppliers and friends for making the show; a). Possible, b). a success, and c). great fun!
Second; At ICE 2009, we launched RaSHCo's new Reel Handling trolley, the "LV". So called because when the cradle is down for loading, it forms a an "L" shape and when holding the reel, it forms a "V" shape. With capacities up to 1600Kg, the "LV" Reel Handling range has something for every Reel Handling application!
The Blog's on hold! Because we are going to ICE!!!
The Reel and Shaft Handling Company will be exhibiting their new range of "LV" Reel Trucks, Reel Turners and Shaft Lifters at the ICE-X in Munich, from the 24th-26th November 2009. Come and visit us and you will receive a reward!
We are pleased to announce our new blog, to visit the Reel and Shaft Handling blog please CLICK HERE or to visit the Pregnancy Seatbelt Harness blog please CLICK HERE.
ICE 2009 STAND
SEPTEMBER 2009: STEPHEN WESTON LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN!
Development of the Seatbelt Harness for Pregnant Women continues as final aesthetic design refinements are made following consultation with leading Mother & Baby retailers, prior to rigourous crash testing.
The new website is up & running and feedback from mothers and expectant mothers on the invention and any concerns they may have when fastening a standard car seatbelt across their tummies.
JULY 2009: THE REEL & SHAFT HANDLING COMPANY WINS A PRESTIGIOUS ORDER TO DESIGN, BUILD AND INSTALL THREE MULTIPLE UNWIND STANDS, EACH CAPABLE OF UNWINDING FOUR REELS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
The Reelstands also have each unwind shaft mounted on a Load Cell, allowing the amount of material unwound to be accurately measured. In addition, Reel & Shaft will also be supplying two Reel Handling trucks fitted with automatic speed control when in proximity of the Reelstands, as well as laser alignment of the reels. The Reelstands are due for completion in November 2009.
MAY 2009: NEW MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENT!
The Reel and Shaft Handling Company is pleased to welcome Tamara Skillin to the role of its new Operations Manager. Tamara come with a wealth of experience of growing businesses from start-up to SME's. Tamara will be responsible for liaising with both customers and suppliers and for managing the day-to-day running of the company. Feel free to give her a call, introduce yourself and wish her good luck! E-mail Tamara at:
WE ARE SHOWING OFF OUR STUFF!
MARCH 2009: Best Ever Results!
The Reel and Shaft Handling Company Ltd grossed it's highest ever monthly sales with bouyant sales of Reel Turners, both truck & Hoist mounted types and orders coming in from as far afield as Mexico & New Zealand. Thanks to all our customers.
MARCH 2009: WOW! NEW REEL UPENDER & PALLETISING SYSTEM FOR SLITTER/REWINDER DEVELOPED!
The Reel & Shaft Handling Company was asked to develop a Reel Handling system to assist operators to take Reels off a high speed, twin shaft, slitter rewinder where reels of up to 95Kg needed to be lifted off, turned to vertical and stacked on a pallet.
The solution required the integration of a Trolley based Reel Upender with a Reel Handling system that could offload and stack the reels on pallets, quickly & without physical effort. The system comnbines quick offloading of the two Slitter/Rewinders-safe Upending of the reels to vertical and easy,quick palletising of the reels.
FEBRUARY 2009: BLOG OFF!
COMING SOON....! THIS NEWS PAGE IS BEING REPLACED WITH A BLOG!
Work started in late January on a new blog page that will archive & organise News articles, but also allow greater use of Video & Photo presentations, without slowing the 'load-up' speed of the website. More document downloads will be available and again, easier to access. WATCH THIS SPACE!
OCTOBER 2008: Stephen Weston presents at the Business Show 2008!
TAMARA SKILLIN-OPERATIONS MANAGER
The Reel and Shaft Handling Company's Managing Director, Stephen Weston, presented his Pregnancy Safety Harness to a panel of investors at the ‘Investor’s Chest’ event at the Business Show 2008, held in the Bolton Arena at the Reebok stadium.
This was a Dragon’s Den type event and the panel included Rachel Elnaugh, (Dragon's den), Imran Hakim, (iTeddy Dragon's den winner, invested in by Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones) and Ben Way, (TV’s ‘Secret millionaire’). Stephen Weston impressed the panel and was made an offer by Imran Hakim and Ben Way jointly. Details have yet to be worked out, but Stephen Weston commented after the event: "It's great to get investors of such high calibre interested in your products. These guys understand how difficult it is to get a new product, no matter how good it is, or how big the potential market is, into the market place and their experience and contacts alone will be invaluable to us."
OCTOBER 2008: Local MP Visits The Reel and Shaft Handling Company:
REEL UPENDER AND REEL TRANSFER SYSTEM
Bury North MP David Chaytor, recently visited The Reel and Shaft Handling Company Ltd to meet Stephen Weston and discuss his proposals for a government sponsored charter to "Name-and-Shame" large companies that deliberately withhold payments to smaller companies.
OCTOBER 2008: Reel and Shaft Handling Company move to bigger premises!
END-ON VIEW: REEL UPENDER
PREGNANT MUM IS SHOWN HOW TO WEAR THE PREGNANCY SAFETY HARNESS
David Chaytor MP, Meets Stephen Weston
The Reel and Shaft Handling Company has moved to new premises offering a much bigger workshop area, (Over 2,000 SqFt), fitted with a 3Tonne overhead crane. In addition the office space is large enough to accommodate an extra two staff, which is part of the planned expansion of the company.
OUR NEW ADDRESS IS: UNIT 8, ELANTIC PARK, VICTORIA STREET, BURY, LANCASHIRE, BL8 2QS, ENGLAND. Phone numbers remain the same!
JULY 2008: Congratulations!! New UK patent is awarded for Pregnancy Seat Belt attachment!
UNIT 8 ELANTIC PARK
The Reel and Shaft Handling Company Ltd were awarded the UK Patent for Stephen Weston's invention to reduce the risk to pregnant women and their unborn children from injuries whilst traveling in cars. It has taken over four year from the initial idea to obtaining the patent. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PRESS ARTICLE IN THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS.
MAY 2008: WOW! We have just exhibited our Stacker truck mounted "Reel Turner Mk3" at CEMAT 2008 in Hannover, Germany, with great success! We were exhibiting on the stand of our friends & colleagues at Armanni Stacker trucks. So we have to say a big Thank you to Armanni for putting together such a successful exhibition!
Armanni showed off their own uniquely designed Reel Handling truck for lifting large reels from the floor, built around their 4-Way stacker, which allows sideways, as well as forwards/backwards travel.(More details on the web pages).
The interest from both visitors and other exhibitors was at times, frantic! Even stacker truck manufacturers brought their customers to see and recommend the "Reel Turner MK3" for handling reels on their trucks! Watch this space for more information and photos soon.
APRIL 2008:Phew! Its been a few hectic months where we haven't found time to update the news pages, as our priority has been serving customers! Between September 2007 & January 2008, alongside numerous individual orders for Reel and Shaft Handling equipment, The Reel and Shaft Handling Company developed, tested and commissioned five new reel turners, designated, 'Reel' Turner Mk3', for fitting either to Fork Truck carriages or, directly onto the forks! Since then, confirmed orders have been received for a total of nine Reel Turners of mixed types. In addition to this, we have received scores of further enquiries from as far afield as Italy, Canada, USA, Australia & Brazil.
MARCH 2008: The Reel & Shaft Handling Company introduces a new interactive brochure, with video links to see a "Reel Turner Mk3" in action and more information on the new 'Weston' Reel Turning range!.
SEPTEMBER 2007: Following the sale of two RAMA 1T-1M Agility Trolleys to Polycello company of Nova Scotia, we received a glowing report following their introduction. The project Engineer concerned wrote;
"Everything is working out great. FYI, I received the following comment from the plant manager: “The whole setup is working quite nicely. The workforce is pleased, the trolley’s are very well built, and the safety elements of roll handling off the press is greatly improved. Nice work!”
Thanks for all the help and I guess the units work well."
Praise indeed! And we thank all at Polycello for their comments and confidence in us.
MAY 2007: The Reel & Shaft Handling Company proudly announce its first export sales to Canada! Polycello company of Nova Scotia has ordered two RAMA 1T-1M Agility Trolleys, modified with wider reel cradles and extended masts. The trucks are being shipped in June.
FEBRUARY 2007: In sales they say the best compliment a customer can give is repeat business. Well following on from the success of the installation of the Weston Mk5 Shaft Lifter, leading papermakers Tullis Russell have ordererd a second system, this time for handling heavy rotary knife barrels! The original Mk5 Shaft Lifter is used for handling up to 95Kg airshafts. For more details, see our "Shaft Handling" webpage.
DECEMBER 2006: The Reel and Shaft Handling Company is pleased to announce the commencement of their new agency for the Pedestrian Stacker truck manufacturer, Armanni. Armanni offer a very wide range of manual, Electric and semi-electric stacker trucks for loads upto 2 Tonnes and heights up to 4 metres. Specials include reel handling and manipulating attachments.(See "Pedestrian Stacker" web page).
NOVEMBER 2006: Reel & Shaft Handling Co. launches its new demonstration facility in Bury, Lancashire, featuring shaft and reel handling systems.
OCTOBER 2006: Reel & Shaft Handling Co. Commissions their latest Reel Lifter/Turner that features built in balance and hoist controls. Mounted on a Movomech lightweight Aluminium rail system, it gives effortless reel handling.
SEPTEMBER 2006: Reel & Shaft Handling Co. wins DTI GRAND award for prototyping new invention! The company has been awarded a grant for Research and Development by the North West Development Agency, (NWDA), to prototype their new safety system aimed protecting persons and goods throughout the supermarket distribution chain. Before being granted the award, the invention was first scrutinised by among others, The Patent Office, The National Engineering Laboratory and the innovation company, PERA.(More details to follow).
AUGUST 2006: Reel & Shaft Handling Co. Delivers different Airshafts! (See Newsflash)!
JULY 2006: Reel & Shaft Handling Co. wins order from leading UK Paper Mill! (See Newsflash)!
JULY 2006: Reel & Shaft Handling Co. wins order from leading UK Converter! (See Newsflash)!
JUNE 2006: THE LATEST ADDITION TO OUR DEMONSRATION AREA IS PUT THROUGH ITS PACES!(See Vacuum Lifters)
PRESS RELEASE...
April 2006
IPEX 2006
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VISITED OUR STAND AND MADE IPEX A GREAT SUCCESS!
It's fair to say that our colleagues from our principals were surprised with the size and scale of the IPEX 2006 exhibition and were delighted with the interest and enquiries The Reel & Shaft Handling Co's stand generated. The company and it's success at the exhibition was even featured in the IPEX Daily newspaper!
The stand was at various times, manned by Pekka Paloniemi of Done Logistics Oy, Helmut Graser of Genkinger-HUBTEX GmbH, Bengt Persson of Movomech Systems AB and Stephen Weston & Don Hammond of The Reel & Shaft Handling Company.Thanks to all for their help & support.
The stand featured a Genkinger narrow aisle reel lifting trolley, a RAMA Reel trolley. a Movomech Vacuum Reel lifter and Weston Mk4 shaft lifter, creating a fantastic amount of interest from a truly world-wide clientele. So much so that three major machine builders exhibiting in the same hall asked for quotations for Genkinger reel trucks to service their unwinds.
PRESS RELEASE – PR004
February 2006
This makes a total four reel and shaft handling equipment supplier contracts RSHC has won since starting up in business in 2005. Other companies under the RSHC banner include RAMA, Movomech and Genkinger.
According to managing director Steve Weston, this means that his company has one of the most extensive range of reel and shaft handling equipment available to industry, in particular to paper industry and the packaging industry.
“I know ‘one-stop shop’ is a bit of a cliché,” he says, ‘But we now have every niche reel, roll and shaft application covered for packaging and paper industry customers.”
15 November 2006
Reel & Shaft Handling Company Launches Range Of Versatile Reel Trucks
The Reel & Shaft Handling Co. announces two important additions to its range of reel and shaft handling equipment for the paper, film, converting & printing industries.
The first addition is the UK agency for RAMA Agility trolleys of Italy. RAMA trolleys are designed to transport reels of material up to 1.5 Tonne in weight. The Agility trolleys are designed to give excellent manoeuvrability in tight areas, with models fitted with powered traction and lift being ideal for transporting reels long distances in areas such as warehouses.
The second addition to the company’s handling portfolio is the addition of the narrow aisle ‘Pan Truck’. Managing Director, Stephen Weston explains, “The Pan Truck has been used in the textile industries for years, with great success, but until now its potential in the converting industries has not been seen. All we are doing really is transferring technology across industries”.
He continues, “The ‘Pan Truck’ has the ability to drive sideways into reels on the floor, lift them on top of the truck and then drive lengthways down narrow aisles to deposit the reel at floor level elsewhere. It really can drive, stop and then drive at 90 degrees to itself. Making it ideal for transporting large reels to or from converting equipment. Directional control of all four wheels is via the tiller at the end of the truck, from which the operator controls all the functions.” Pan Trucks’ have a capacity of up to 2 Tonnes.
Stephen Weston believes that the addition of the RAMA Agility Trolley range and the new ‘Pan Truck’ range to The Reel and Shaft Handling Company’s unique and patent applied for handling equipment, gives the company an important boost in the larger reel handling markets.
Contact: S. Weston
Tel/Fax: 0161 705 2211. Mobile: 07917 864802.
E-mail: mailto:
PREGNANCY SAFETY HARNESS
4-WAY LIFT FROM FLOOR REEL TRUCK
IPEX 2006 TEAM
REAL EASY, VERTICAL REEL HANDLING!
See more of our easy control vacuum lifters in the reel handling and vacuum lifting pages!
The Reel & Shaft Handling Company was asked to develop a Reel Handling system to assist operators to take Reels off a high speed, twin shaft, slitter rewinder where reels of up to 95Kg needed to be lifted off, turned to vertical and stacked on a pallet.
