A company has unveiled a unique bolting system for the offshore windfarm industry that it claims works up to 200% faster than other systems.
Gee-Force Hydraulics is stocking the latest SPX’s Infinite Stage Pump technology that it says cut construction time of an “average-sized” windfarm by days.
The Great Yarmouth firm said this could result in substantial savings in personnel, crane and access hire.
Managing director Graeme Cook said “Because of the restricted timescales for offshore wind turbine installation, greater bolting speed coupled with equipment reliability bring about significant cost benefits compared to standard systems.
“However, traditional design wrenches don’t have the capacity to accommodate the increased oil flows, hence SPX re-designing the internal components of its wrenches to work at these much faster speeds.”
The pump, used with a high cycle hydraulic torque wrench, increases productivity by providing continuous flow for up to twice the speed of typical 2-stage hydraulic torque pumps.