The CEA would like to welcome six new CEA members! Here’s a bit about what each company offer to the construction equipment sector.
Red Dot (pictured above) is a leading manufacturer of heaters and air conditioners for commercial vehicles, the company can design and build custom units against the specific needs and requirements of its customers. Red Dot supplies HVAC systems for compact equipment, dozers, graders, backhoes, skid steer loaders, telehandlers, excavators, off-highway trucks, and other construction machinery used worldwide, plus agriculture and military.
The company also supply vehicle owners with off-the-shelf ready-to-install HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) units and kits that can bring the value of climate control to nearly any existing cab environment.
Every project involves a dedicated team of specialists including engineering, quality, purchasing, manufacturing and marketing. Red Dot say it’s their specialists job to meet the customers’ unique requirements for performance, durability, and cab specifications – using the most sophisticated tools, research, and test facilities in the industry.
Its HVAC products include rooftop units, headliner units, backwall units, ductables, under-dash heaters, condensers and hydraulic compressors.
Michael Williams, Red Dot Europe business development director said, “Red Dot is looking forward to using the CEA network to expand in overseas markets, access trade leads and help in making the right contacts to develop its export business.”
Towergate Insurance: is a specialist in construction, plant and contractors Insurance – the company has clients ranging from small building enterprises to major civil engineering organisations and told Construction WorX that they currently manage over 12,000 individual construction risks.
As one of the UK’s largest insurance intermediaries and with strong insurer relationships, Towergate has the buying power to help negotiate bespoke insurance deals for its clients.
Ross Hayden, Towergate Insurance development executive said, “For many years we have been members of the Construction Plant Hire Association (CPA) giving their members access to tailored insurance solutions to suit their specific business needs. Through our association with the CPA we met Rob Oliver (CEO, CEA) whilst exhibiting at the CPA Plant Conference last November at Wyboston Lakes.”
Following that initial meeting, Towergate agreed to become a member of the CEA and an exhibitor at the recent Plantworx exhibition which turned out to be a huge success for both parties.
Ross added, “We are now looking to work more with the CEA to offer the same tailored insurance solutions to fellow members.
Starting with building a detailed understanding and analysis of your their business risks, our team will be able to tailor their policy and risk management programme to fit the specific needs of the business.”
Firefly’s latest Cygnus Solar Powered Generator.
Firefly Clean Energy is a UK market leading designer and manufacturer of Hybrid Power Generators (HPGs). Following commercial success within the events sector, the company now serves a rapidly growing client base spanning across the construction, infrastructure and industrial markets in the UK and Internationally.
When integrated with diesel generator fleets, Firefly’s completely silent running Hybrid Power Generators provide a significant reduction in diesel fuel consumption, carbon and NOx emissions, diesel generator run times.
As the pioneering experts in hybrid power, Firefly’s expanding international distributor network is representative of the company’s leading product engineering and in-depth market understanding.
The company told Construction WorX that it is proud to be championing innovation and providing cutting-edge technology and becoming a member of the CEA allows Firefly to further promote the benefits of hybrid power by sharing best practice with the industry. Andy Mead, CEO and founder of Firefly said, “We dedicate a great deal of time to product and market research, we see our CEA membership as an opportunity to learn from other leading manufacturers in their field whilst obtaining the latest insight first hand from those who operate in today’s construction industry. Great Britain has some fantastic manufacturers that are internationally recognised and it is great to see that the CEA are doing a great job of representing them.”
Wardle Storeys manufacture polymer films and coated fabrics.
Wardle Storeys is a long-established supplier into the global automotive industry. The company manufactures polymer films and coated fabrics. With a focus on surface design and technical product innovation, it supplies international markets in many sectors.
Wardle Storeys Mike Raines said, “We are delighted to become a member of the CEA and looking forward to the networking opportunities. We offer our ‘world famous’ vinyl PVC coated print and fabric cover-stock products to off-highway, transportation industries and automotive markets in the areas of interior trim and seat cover applications.”
Mike added, “New processes and formulations now give an unprecedented level of match to traditional leather like surfaces. Our bright and innovative technical fabric collections, which include geometric grain designs, with class leading seat wear and stain resistance is now being demanded more and more by our customers as they move into bright and funky machine and vehicle interior styling and design.”
Wheelwash is a keen overseas exhibitor!
Wheelwash has the largest range of automatically operated, high performance wheel cleaning equipment available in the UK. Since 1990, the company has been preventing site vehicles tracking out dirt and debris onto public roads in a range of diverse industries including Construction, Quarrying, Mining, Recycling and Waste Management, Power Generation and Ports, world-wide.
The company recently took part in Exponor 2015 which is the largest mining exhibition in Chile. With the support of CEA and UK Trade and Investment, Wheelwash enjoyed a successful show. Product manager for Wheelwash Chile, Jose Ignacio Avila was accompanied by managing director of Wheelwash, Ian Jolly and export coordinator Christina Duarte throughout the show in order to present its environmentally friendly wheel-cleaning solutions to customers. In addition, Wheelwash had the opportunity to discuss its solutions directly with the Chilean Mining Minister Aurora Williams who applauded Wheelwash on providing solutions to combat issues such as contamination in the local communities often caused by mining activities.
Wheelwash managing director, Ian Jolly said, “After working with the CEA on overseas projects it seemed the natural progression to look at the benefits it could offer in our home markets. We look forward to seeing what this will bring in the forthcoming year.”
Wheelwash has recently launched a new environmentally friendly range of wheel wash systems – aptly named the Rhino Ecowash range, the products offer the robustness of previous Rhino systems but now include design features to provide unrivalled performance whilst minimising power and water consumption. All of the spray wash systems in the range come with upgraded water recycling options that further enhance their efficiency.
Their green credentials are addressed through many design features throughout the wash and recycling sections. These include inverter driven pumps because they can deliver up to 50% operational cost savings due to the power being fully adjustable.
Hydrotechnik UK is one of the UK’s leading test and measurement equipment distributors and manufacturers, servicing a wide range of industries since 1990.
“Joining the CEA was seen as an important step to help communicate our product portfolio” Hydrotechnik.
Hydrotechnik has a large product portfolio with a huge range of Minimess™ test points, test point adaptors, high pressure microbore hose assemblies, pressure gauges and Minimess test kits for analogue testing, charging, bleeding or sampling of almost any fluid or gas.
The company offer a large range of Measurement Sensors and Datalogging Equipment for Digital hydraulic testing and analysis. Its measurement sensor range includes Pressure, Flow, Temperature and RPM to name just a few, with MultiHandy or MultiSystem portable Dataloggers for accurate high speed measurement and performance analysis of Hydraulic or process systems.
Chris Banks, Hydrotechnik’s commercial director commented on joining CEA he said, “Joining the CEA was seen as an important step to help communicate our product portfolio of hydraulic test and measurement equipment in to a core market sector for Hydrotechnik UK.”
