Customer

Cavalier Bremworth, Jonel Hydraulics

Location

Auckland, Australia

Challenge

When a manufacturer boosts production to cope with burgeoning demand, efficiency-minded operations staff keenly seek out technologies to help them minimise costs and manual labour while maximising safety and ongoing returns.

That is what happened recently to the leading Australasian carpet and textiles producer Cavalier Bremworth, which has doubled its production over the last year of its quality wool carpets for domestic and commercial markets throughout the Asia-Pacific.

Products

XC-Series Cordless Pumps

Solution

The highly safety conscious company found exactly what it had been looking for when it replaced time-consuming manual pumping of hydraulic spool lifting machinery in its Auckland manufacturing operation with an Enerpac XC cordless electric pump that does the job in less than half the time with minimal physical effort.

“We have more than 300 spools – each weighing about 400 kg – that have to be continuously and precisely lifted from inventory and lowered into production positons,” said Cavalier Bremworth Plant Engineer Mr Chris Young.

“The hydraulic hand pumps we were using previously were excellent gear in themselves, but even strong men had to use 35-40 strokes to get the required lift and some of our ladies required up to 70 to do it comfortably and safely.

“We thought, ‘there has got to be a better way’ and that’s when we saw the XC Cordless pump at an EMEX engineering show where it was being presented by Jonel Hydraulics. It was perfect.”

Through its network of distributor and service centres – of which Jonels is a major Authorised Distribution and Service Centre – Enerpac is introducing to Australasia the versatility of either single or double-acting XC Series cordless pumps, which offer the performance capabilities of an electric pump with the convenient portability of a hand pump.

Enerpac XC-Series cordless pumps actuate hydraulic tools as fast as a basic electric powered pump and create up to 700 bar (10,000 psi) of pressure. This means that XC-Series cordless pumps are up to five times faster than manual hydraulic pumps and up to two times faster than popular pneumatic powered pumps.

Jonel Hydraulics Business Development Manager Shane Quigley was part of the service team that worked with Cavalier Bremworth’s production and OHS staff to introduce the cordless technology to its Auckland plant.

“Cavalier Bremworth wanted to achieve a high standard of OHS safety by reducing repetitive pumping operations, while also avoiding the need to have electric cords or pneumatic leads in places where they were vulnerable to tripping hazards or to forklift and wheeled vehicle damage in a busy production environment.

“Their need for reliable cordless power was answered by the light, durable and powerful XC series pumps, which are built to stand up to demanding operations both inside and outside, in applications ranging from workshop and production environments, to remote sites without power.”

Bremworth Cavalier’s pumps can manage typically 30-plus actuations of the twin Enerpac 10T RC cylinders on the spool cradle, with each pump being rapidly charged while another XC equipped cradle takes over to maintain a smooth and effortless production flow.

Chris Young says that in addition to contributing to speedy and effortless spools changeover, the XC pumps are firm favourites with the staff using them. “They make for a very happy workforce. The XC pumps are easy to operate and ensure the job is so much simpler and precise. And we know that Jonel Hydraulics are always there to provide the service and backup for which Enerpac is known globally.”