Product range
Wire, Rigging & Lifting
Wire rope, chain, shackles, hooks, blocks, swivels and the fittings an assembly lands on.
Industries
Industrial & Rigging
We make the assembly and we prove it. A 500,000 lb horizontal bed sits in our own building at Paradise, and every item that goes on it comes back with a test certificate.
- Horizontal test bed
- 500,000 lbHorizontal test bed
- Certificate per item tested
- 1Certificate per item tested
- Intake counters
- 4Intake counters
Why us, for this
Anybody can sell you a sling. Very few can pull it to destruction.
A lifting assembly is only worth the number attached to it, and most suppliers get that number from a table. We have a 500,000 lb horizontal test bed running the length of a bay in our own building at Paradise — so an assembly we make can be proof tested here, by us, before it leaves, and the figure on the certificate is one we watched on the trace.
Around the bed sit the trades that make the thing in the first place: wire rope cut, spliced by hand or clamped in the press; fabrication in steel, aluminium and Hardox; and a hands-on inspection service that takes gear in at four counters. We are careful about what we claim — we issue a test certificate for each item we test, and we make no claim of external approval for the business itself.
- Custom assemblies
- Hand splicing
- Clamped in press
- Proof testing
- Certificate per item
- Steel, aluminium, Hardox
- Worksite supply
What we do for industry
Made here, proved here, recorded here.
Not a marine list. These are industrial trades that happen to sit beside a harbour.
Custom lifting and rigging assemblies
Wire rope and synthetic assemblies made to a length and a load — slings, stays, bridles and one-offs, built to your specification rather than picked from a size chart.
Terminations both ways
Hand splicing in all dimensions where an inspectable termination matters, and ferrules clamped in our own press where a mechanical one is right.
Proof testing to 500,000 lb
A horizontal bed running the length of the bay, with a controller that records the run — specimen, length and load limits entered, the load trace alongside.
Periodic inspection programmes
Gear taken in by the crate, inspected item by item, logged, tagged and returned — so lifting equipment can be managed as a programme with a record rather than a memory.
Fabrication in steel, aluminium and Hardox
Frames, brackets, guards, gratings, bins and wear parts — cut, welded and finished, from your drawing or from the worn-out original.
Repair and refurbishment
Steel that goes back to work: hardware refurbished, frames rebuilt, wear surfaces replaced — usually faster and cheaper than replacement.
Worksite supply
Wire rope, chain, shackles, hooks, blocks, swivels, slings and PPE off the counter at four branches, with assemblies made up alongside.
Industrial netting and canvas
Barrier and cargo netting, protective covers, tarps and enclosures — including customised canvas for industrial and scientific applications.
The numbers
What the bed will take, and what comes back with the item.
Inspection is hands-on first and the bed second. These are the boundaries of the service, stated plainly so you can tell whether it fits your programme.
| Capability | Detail | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Proof load testing | Horizontal bed, capacity to 500,000 lb, running the length of the bay at Paradise | Test certificate per item — what was tested, and to what load |
| Wire rope assemblies | Cut to length; hand-spliced or clamped in the press; thimbles, ferrules and fittings made up here | Certificate on request where the assembly is proof tested |
| Synthetic assemblies | HMPE 12-strand — DynIce, Dux, Prima and Robus — spliced by hand and sized with splice loss accounted for | Certificate on request where proof tested |
| Hands-on inspection | Rope, wire rope and lifting gear examined item by item, logged and tagged | Inspection records; gear returned tagged |
| Site inspection | Available for supported work, where gear is inspected in place | Reports or documentation as applicable |
| Fabrication | Steel, aluminium and Hardox — cut, welded, finished | Built to your drawing or to the original part |
Scroll the table sideways for all 3 columns.
We issue a test certificate for each item we test. That is a document about your item; it is not a claim of external approval of this company, and we do not make one.
The equipment
Proper nouns, not adjectives.
"In-house testing" is a claim. A 500,000 lb bed with a controller and a load trace is an argument. This is the equipment the service actually runs on.
Under load
A spliced assembly pulled on the bed, made off to a master link through a bow shackle. The bed is long enough to rig an assembly out straight, which is how it is loaded in service.
The controller
A run set up on screen — specimen, length and load limits entered, the load trace recorded alongside. The number on the certificate comes off this, not out of a table.
Back to work
A lifting frame repainted and re-rigged with a new bridle, an older one alongside it. Inspection is not only a pass or a fail — a good share of what comes in goes back into service rather than into a skip.
Clamped in the press
The swaging press, dies open, with wire waiting in front of it. Ferrules are pressed here rather than sent out, so an assembly is terminated in the same building it is tested in.
Made up to the load
Prima spliced around a steel thimble — the fitting on your gear decides the end we build. Assemblies are made to the job's length and load, then proved on the bed when the job calls for it.
Logged and tagged
Wire rope pullers laid out on the pallet after examination, hooks turned up and their ropes coiled clear — the part that turns inspection from an event into a programme.
Development
The bed is also how a prototype gets settled.
The same equipment that verifies a production assembly is what makes development possible: build the thing, load it, and find out. This company has a technical team working on applied research and commercial development, and consults for industry, government and academia on technical problems in rope, wire and the construction of prototypes.
New and emerging technology is sensitive by nature, and we are fully agreeable to working under non-disclosure and confidentiality terms.
Prototype construction
One-offs built in steel, rope, netting or canvas — from your drawing, a sketch, or the part that failed.
Verification on our own bed
A prototype termination or assembly pulled here, with the load trace recorded, rather than sent away and waited on.
Technical consultancy
Advice on ropes, wires and prototype construction for industry, government and academia.
Under non-disclosure
Confidentiality terms are normal for development work here, not an exception we have to be asked for.
Four shops
Four places to hand gear in. One bed to prove it on.
An inspection programme lives or dies on how easy it is to hand the gear over. Four counters take work in; the bed and the press do the part that has to happen in one place.
Intake at every counter
Gear can be handed in at any of the four branches and moved to the bed internally, rather than being freighted by you.
Worksite supply from stock
Wire rope, chain, shackles, hooks, blocks, swivels and PPE stocked at the counters, with assemblies made up alongside them.
Solutions
The gear we stock, and the trades that make and prove it.
Supplied off the counter, made up in the shop, tested on our own bed.
Gear we supply to worksites
All products
Product range
Rope & Cordage
Synthetic rope stock, including the HMPE constructions we splice into lifting and rigging assemblies.
Trades behind it
All services
Service
Inspection & Testing
Hands-on inspection, proof testing to 500,000 lb, and a test certificate for each item tested.
Service
Rope Splicing & Rigging
Assemblies made to a length and a load — hand-spliced, or clamped in our own press.
Service
Welding & Fabrication
Steel, aluminium and Hardox — fabrication, repair and refurbishment that goes back to work.
Service
Custom Marine & Industrial Solutions
One-offs and prototypes built to a drawing or to the part that failed, under non-disclosure where needed.
FAQ
What buyers ask us about Industrial & Rigging
We have a horizontal test bed with capacity to 500,000 lb, running the length of a bay at our Paradise building. It is long enough to rig a full assembly out straight, which is how the assembly is loaded in service. Inspection is hands-on first; the bed is used when the job earns it.
A test certificate for each item tested, stating what was tested and to what load, and gear returned tagged after inspection. Reports or documentation are available as applicable for site inspection. To be exact about what that is: it is our document about your item, not a claim of external approval of this company.
No, and we will not imply otherwise. What we have is our own equipment, our own inspectors and a document that records what we did. If your programme requires third-party approval, we will tell you plainly that this is not that, so you can plan around it.
Yes. Gear comes in by the crate, is inspected item by item, logged and tagged, and goes back. Any of the four branches can take it in, and it moves to the bed internally rather than being freighted by you.
To your specification. Wire rope and synthetic assemblies are cut to length and terminated by hand splice or clamped in our own press, with the fittings made up here. Splice loss is accounted for in the sizing, and the assembly can be proof tested before it leaves.
Yes. Lifting, rigging, fabrication and worksite supply are industrial trades; the harbour is just where our shops happen to be. Barrier and cargo netting, protective covers and customised canvas for industrial and scientific applications come from the same shops.
That is a line of work rather than a favour. One-offs and prototypes are built in steel, rope, netting or canvas — from your drawing, a sketch, or the part that failed — and verified on our own bed where that is what settles it. Non-disclosure terms are normal for this work.
Made-to-order assemblies are cut, terminated and tested in one building, which removes the usual wait for an outside test house. Tell us the date it has to be on site and we will plan back from it and tell you honestly whether it works.
Start a quote. We route it to the right branch.
Send specs, photos, drawings, or inspection and testing requests. Your reply comes from the branch that will do the work.