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Retail Giants move on Castors
In the cut throat and competitive environment of retailing, each store and retailer continues to attract more customers by spending millions of pounds each year on shop fittings and displays. More attractive displays, corresponding to either seasonal changes or promotions, attract more customers... |
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Castors going for Olympic Gold!
With just over 2 years until the London 2012 Olympic Games, castors are being utilised by many companies preparing for this enormous world class sporting event. Many experts quote that the 2012 Olympic Games will generate over twenty billion pounds for the British Economy... |
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Castors that Rock n’ Roll
Any touring rock and roll band transports with them a phenomenal amount of equipment, from staging, lighting and musical instruments to sound equipment, mixing and control decks. Touring bands and their roadies know the benefits of using heavy duty flight cases to transport the equipment from show to show.... |
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Castors keep Air Freight on the move!
Over two and a half million tonnes of air freight is moved through the United Kingdom every year. Here in the East Midlands our local airport is the second largest freight carrier in the country, after Heathrow. In 2008 just less than 300,000 tonnes of cargo has moved through this Midlands airport either within passenger planes or within dedicated cargo aircraft... |
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Medical Castors for Hospitals and Institutions
The last thing you want as a patient in hospital is a bed that is too high off the ground, making it extremely uncomfortable every time you move in and out of bed! You also need your hospital bed to manoeuvre smoothly through the wards and operating theatres, and not be a bone shaker!.. |
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Furniture Castors with a modern twist
Castors have been used on furniture for 100’s of years on sofa’s, beds, chairs and larger pieces of furniture. Traditionally castors were made of brass or metal, and attached via a cup over the furniture leg, or by a thread screwed into the leg. These traditional castors are still available today and one of the most well known versions of this furniture castor is a Shepherd castor... |
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Heavy Duty Castors take the weight!
Heavy duty castors, by indication from their name, are made to withstand hard wear, excessive loads, and in some instances extremes of weather. Heavy duty castors can be either swivel castors, fixed castors or lockable castors. Swivelling castors enable the wheel to move in a 360 degree rotation. Fixed castors, alternatively, do not allow rotation, ensuring the wheel moves unidirectionally... |
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Pneumatic Castors are pitch perfect!
Summer seems along way away as the snow falls over the UK and the big freeze continues to chill us. However now is the time that cricket clubs are ensuring their pitches are covered and their cricket screens are suitable to be manoeuvred around the cricket field. |
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Castors get conveyors moving!
What are Castors, the age old question? Are they stars in the Gemini galaxy, or small perforated shakers for sprinkling powdered sugar, or a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture and machinery to make them movable, or a type of American beaver? If you were to type castors, or casters, as our friends over the pond in America spell the term, into an internet search engine, the answer to the above question could be all four! |
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Jacking Castors take the weight!
A Jack is defined as a mechanical device to assist in the vertical adjustment of a product. Jacking castors have been developed for the added benefit of not only enabling vertical lift, but once jacked onto the castors the unit or product can then be manoeuvred horizontally as well as vertically. |
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CASTOR FIRM PUTS WHEELS IN MOTION TO GO GLOBAL
With 40 years under his belt supplying 2,600 product lines to everyone from hospitals and caterers to steel fabricators and energy companies, there isn’t a lot Frank Fitzpatrick doesn’t know about castors, industrial wheels and adjustable feet. |
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Stainless Steel castors make the grade!
Stainless steel castors are renowned world wide as castors that do not stain, rust or corrode in harsh environments. As a result of these properties, stainless steel castors have a wide range of applications from medical, manufacturing and construction to marine environments. Castors used in these applications have to be able to withstand extremes of conditions, without compromising |
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Office Chair Castors prove to be a survivor of the fittest!
The simplest and most common castors are fitted to office chairs. These small twin wheeled castors have revolutionised the office environment. For such a simple component its pedigree is rather impressive. It has been well reported that Darwin himself was one of the earliest known innovators and scientist to put castors on his chair in his laboratory, in order to get to his specimens more quickly! Darwin’s |
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Castors and Wheels put the World in motion!
Castors and wheels are everywhere on all our cars, planes, machines, trains, machinery, equipment, and even if you look down now, they may even be on your office chairs. It’s probably a component that you have never spent much time thinking about. Nor should you! Castors and wheels are a part of every day life, and experts agree that the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia...
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Castors made to make movements!
It’s the age old problem! There is something heavy to move at work, it’s got to be relocated, so do you stop and think about it or just get on with the job? In the United Kingdom nearly a third of all injuries reported in the work place, are from a direct result of incorrect manual handling, requiring days off work and costing the economy millions!
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No bright sparks with anti-static castors
Ever had that spark when you touch a door handle after walking across a carpet? Within the technological world of clean rooms this spark can be devastating. That’s why bright sparks in the industry are looking for anti static castors on all their moving machinery and equipment to prevent electrostatic discharge...
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Bakeries get hot for high temperature Castors!
From the freezing temperatures of -40 degrees to the burning oven temperatures of over +200 degrees, our bread manufacturers require the most advanced temperature resistant castors within the industry!
To deliver bread onto our tables requires sophisticated handling machinery, relying upon trolleys running on castors that don’t ice up... |
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