Case Histories
2 June 2008
As part of the extensive refurbishment of Rugeley Power Station, Wright Brothers were contracted by Lentjes UK to install all the major equipment associated with the Waste Water Treatment Plant on the Station.
Our Site Team installed all pumps, tanks, silos and additive dosing equipment as well as maintenance access and stairs into the purpose built building.
As with all these types of...
4 March 2008
In March 2008 we were invited to tender for a silo installation at Tate & Lyle’s Sugar Refinery at Silvertown, London. We were surprised on opening the tender documentation to find that the silo had a capacity of 12,500t of granulated sugar. All our staff were keen to take the challenge of working with a new client, in a new industrial sector, on such a large and unusual...
1 January 2008
Gyptech AB, the European subsidiary of Canada’s premier plasterboard manufacturing equipment supplier, were looking for a company to provide the installation capability and resources for a new mill installation at British Gypsum’s Sherburn-in-Elmet Works.
Wright Brothers quoted and won the contract, spending the next 2 years on site installing the new Mill, Drier and Gypsum...
1 October 2007
In October 2007, Lentjes UK awarded Wright Engineering the contract to install the Limestone and Gypsum Handling Conveyors for the Fluidised Gas Desulphurisation Installation at Ferrybridge Power station.
The contract required us to install the free issue pipe conveyors that take the limestone from the rail unloading station into the power station, and the gypsum from the power station...
1 December 2006
Wright Engineering have just successfully completed a large installation for Lafarge's Mountsorrel Quarry in Leicestershire. The project included the manufacture and installation of ten storage bunkers to relieve the increased demand on the existing storage facilities. The new storage bunkers are subdivided into twenty and were installed with six new conveyors with supporting trestles, a...
20 November 2006
Wright Engineering of Worksop, Nr Sheffield have recently completed a project for Lafarge Aggregates who are a major supplier of innovative asphalts and concretes, plus rock, sand and gravel, road surfacing solutions and waste management services. The project at their Whitwell Quarry, Nottinghamshire site involved the design and installation of all the civil works including the...
3 August 2006
Wright Engineering of Worksop, Nottinghamshire have recently supplied a new ship loader operating cabin for harbour operations at Foster Yeoman’s Glensanda Quarry at Oban, Scotland. Located on a 2,400 hectare estate on the remote West of Scotland, Glensanda is one of the largest hard rock quarry operations in Europe. It has in excess of 75 years of reserves at current production...
1 March 2006
Wright Engineering has just completed a project for Monier Lifetile LLC in Florida USA. Monier Lifetile LLC, Lafarge’s joint venture with Boral in North America, invited Wright Engineering to tender for the replacement of their aggregate feed system conveyors, and cement storage, and handling equipment for their roof tile manufacturing facility at Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Wright...
8 January 2006
Wright Engineering have recently been involved in the design, manufacture, supply and installation of a 500 tph metal recovery plant at the Corus Scunthorpe site. Working for Corus Northern Engineering Services, Wright Engineering were contracted to provide an overall plant layout design, including design and manufacture of conveyors, chute work, and support steelwork. Total installation of...
4 October 2005
British Gypsum Limited at East Leake Works, Leicestershire, have been a client of Wright Engineering for over 20 years. We have worked with BG Engineers during this period to understand the demands that the handling of raw gypsum makes on conveying equipment, the way the material flows, and the aggressive wear that poor design can produce on installed equipment. With this in mind, late in...
19 May 2004
Wright Brothers Industrial Services have just completed a major project for Monier Lifetile Inc at their facility at Lake Wales, Florida, USA. Primarily involved in concrete roof tile manufacture Monier Lifetile chose Worksop based company to completely modernise the existing plant and supply new aggregate storage and raw material feed conveyor systems for the three production lines of grey...
18 May 2004
Wright Engineering has recently completed a project to design, build and install a system of conveyors for Goonvean Ltd of St Austell to deliver china clay to kilns at a plant in Cornwall. Wright had previously supplied a 110 metre tripping conveyor to Goonvean which also entailed the design, build and installation of the new conveyor as well as the removal of the existing system. Wright had...
8 December 2003
In December 2003 Wright Brothers successfully completed the installation of a new Mill building at Lafarge Aluminates, West Thurrock Works. The Mill building, complete with all internally mounted material handling equipment, was fed by a new troughted belt conveyor, also designed, manufactured and installed as part of the project. The £930,000 contract was installed within the clients...
7 January 2002
Designed and developed to meet the needs of Britain’s foremost manufacturer in the field of Plasterboard Products. Wright Engineering designed, manufactured and installed this fully automated machine Tile Embossing Machine as a turnkey project.
Designed to meet the exacting standards required by British Gypsum Limited, and now running successfully at one of the company’s...
22 January 2001
When British Gypsum Ltd, Robertsbridge, lost the conveyors feeding their production plant due to a major landslip, they took the opportunity to introduce a new screen house into the replacement conveyor system.
Wright Engineering design staff were given the task of designing the new conveyor system, eliminating the unstable ground, and interweaving the conveyors between existing...
6 March 2000
Redland Roofing Systems Limited needed to replace an old Aggregate Handling Plant with a new fully automated system. Wright Engineering designed the PLC controlled system to allow the operators to blend two sands with accuracy and flexibility.
The plant is loaded by front end loader and then is controlled fully from the plant operators within the production building. The PLC system...
14 February 2000
Wright Engineering were able to supply the complete solution to the Mixing and Batching system requirements of Redland Roofing Systems Limited at their Shawell Works near Rugby.
The brief from the client was to install an Eirich mixer into an existing building with the facility to produce and deliver two distinct mortar feeds to the nearby tile production facility. We then designed,...
4 January 2000
Wright Engineering were approached by Redland PLC’s Projects Department to design and manufacture a new Raw Materials Input, Storage and Delivery System for one of their premier production plants in Japan. Our engineers worked closely with the clients representatives and the project was successfully installed at Himeji in Japan, by our own staff, during 1998. The equipment was...
