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Don't pour cold water on British Manufacturing
Winder Electrical have been in business for over 100 years now and based in Pudsey, Leeds have for some time been the electrical engineering supply partners of choice for large water companies in the Yorkshire, Thames and Severn Trent regions.
The company has recently been working alongside major utilities regionally and has participated in a series of upgrades to waste water sites seeking to ensure compliance with new freshwater directives.
Over the next four years, over £220 million will be invested throughout the region in order to comply with the new regulations.
The new directive protects and improves the quality of fresh water so it can protect fish life. The work involves upgrading some of the largest waste water treatment works across the region and will ultimately lead to a reduction of ammonia levels released from these works.
Winder Electrical has been involved in two phases of the new directive upgrades, including the installation of an Automatic Supply Restoration (ASR) system, which centralises the tripping and fault isolation in order to provide full control of one area on the site. This includes the installation of gas insulated switch gear that can be remote actuated.
When it comes down to the equipment used to improve this specification, ecological constraints are often also put on supply industries and it is the responsibility of those supply companies to look at their own manufacturing methods in order to achieve the correct standards. Winder Electrical are committed to modifying their own supply methods in order to achieve these criteria.
For example, part of the new directive has meant that all transformers have had temperature alarms fitted and are steel bunded to ensure leakage into the surrounding areas does not occur.
In conclusion, the combination of skills and new methods that have been utilised alongside the local in-house transformer production, all demonstrate that British produced products can still compete in the market, as long as the company embraces the ecological changes that are sweeping all sectors of utility supply.
