Factory Facilities
Our fully-equipped factory and workshops contain the latest manufacturing technology to ensure that we deliver prime quality products on time and to individual specifications. With over 25,000 square feet of factory space, we also have two complete workshops with the ultimate in stainless steel fabrication machinery and testing.
This includes:
Five crane types
- Street 5 ton
- Street 10 /5ton
- Street 25 /10ton
- Matterson 5 ton
- Matterson 10 ton
Plasma System and Orbital Machinery
Our recent investment in an Orbital and Plasma-Arc Welding Unit has enabled us to improve our manufacturing process by introducing a fully-automated welding process. This has ensured improvements in both weld quality and work capacity, meaning that we continue to provide a cutting-edge, highly-competitive and effective manufacturing service.
- Orbital
- Automatic Plasma Arc
- Submerged Arc
- TIG
- MIG
- Manual Metal Arc (Stick)
Length: 20m
Available means of transport:
Length: 12.3m
| Horizontal Borers |
| Richards No 5 |
| Kearns No 3 |
| Kearns No 1 |
| Kearns No 0 |
| Vertical Borers | Table Size | Height Under Cross Rail |
| Richards Twin Ram | 2743 mm | 1800mm |
| Richards Twin Ram | 1422 mm | 900 mm |
| Webster Bennet | 1219 mm | 600 mm |
| Centre Lathes | |
| Colchester Mastiff |
370mm diameter swing x |
| Broadbent Schofield |
460mm diameter swing x |
| Capstan Lathes |
| Ward 2/7 & 10 |
| Slotter |
| Burdett 200 mm stroke |
| Planer |
| Stirk with side cutting 5181 mm long 1371 wide 1371 mm high |
| Radial Arm Drills | |
| Asquith N4 | 1600 mm arm |
| K&W | 1300 mm arm |
Hunt Drill Grinder
Milling Machines
Vertical Horizontal & Universal
Up Table size 400 mm x 1700 mm
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View Details"Poole Projects Ltd (Paper Making Engineers) have enjoyed a long standing relationship with Gilwood Fabricators.The quality of their work is outstanding, as is their willingness to assist and cooperate from enquiry stage through design, manufacture and delivery.The paper industry often puts demanding timescales on its suppliers and in these circumstances Gilwood have always been prepared to go the extra mile."
John Poole - Poole Projects Ltd