Huge Investment In Precision Machining

The Ellon based company has taken delivery of three, state-of-the-art Doosan CNC (computer numerical control) machine tools to address customer needs for both its core products and precision machining services.

Power Jacks specialises in producing world-class industrial lifting and positioning equipment including screw jacks, actuators & lead screws.

Bruce Bultitude, chairman and managing director at Power Jacks, said:
"The machines will be particularly pivotal to servicing the oil and gas sector where we are experiencing an increasingly growing demand for our core electro-mechanical products. What we are seeing is a sharp shift in the industry moving away from hydraulic methods of lifting and positioning of high loads. We believe this is because the end users are recognising the benefits of electro-mechanical solutions which can offer safer, maintenance free and more environmentally-friendly solutions."

Power Jacks' new Doosan cell includes a large vertical turning centre, a large capacity lathe and a new machining centre to compliment Power Jacks' already extensive manufacturing machining capability. Power Jacks' improved capability allows the company to engineer even larger industrial worm gear screw jacks and actuators for lifting and positioning applications and also perform larger products for its oil and gas customers, such as valve bodies, tubing hangers, bonnets and flange faces up to 10 tonnes and 2 metre diameter.

Power Jacks' market activity spans more than 70 countries and a diverse range of industries from aerospace, defence and industrial auto-motion solutions to civil engineering and energy including renewables, and oil & gas.