Another Leading Brand For PES (UK) Ltd 20/12/04

PES (UK) Ltd are Proud to announce our sole UK agency for another leading German Product supplier. Illbruck have been successfully providing acoustic systems Worldwide in the following forms.

• Acoustical ceiling tiles, wall panels and baffles for the architectural and room acoustics markets.
• Noise control barriers, composites, wall panels, baffles, and enclosures for industrial facilities.
• Studio or Auditorium Design and installations.

PES (UK) Ltd can now offer complete Vibro Acoustic solutions to all industries enabling us to install comprehensive test facilities and machine locations from ground upwards.

Great Response at Mach 2004 Exhibition 11/10/04

The response at the 2004 Mach Exhibition was refreshing, although numbers were down the quality of the enquiries was a balancing factor. The exhibition is the beginning of a host of marketing campaigns by PES UK to re-communicate to all industries the quality of products and services under its company umbrella. Its time everyone in industry had the opportunity to make use of our solutions.

PES Goes King Sized at Buxton HSL.

PES UK Ltd are working alongside Shepherd Construction to provide the largest and most unique Universal Test Bed in the country at the Health & Safety Laboratory's new £56 million purpose-built facility, being constructed by Shepherd in Buxton, Derbyshire.

At 18 metres x 3 metres, the Universal Test Bed (UTB) is approximately three times the size of those typically used in industry, resulting in many key design characteristics affecting PES and Shepherd during the 6 month bed plate manufacture and the 2 month construction and installation programme.

The foundations of the UTB have to be immensely strong to resist the extreme forces exerted onto it by the test equipment. Shepherd formed these foundations by pouring a three metre deep reinforced concrete slab, into which 259 reaction anchors, each measuring 2½ metres in length and 42mm in diameter, have been installed by PES. Manufactured to strict measured tolerances, the anchors are used to hold five twenty-five tonne 500mm deep cast iron floor plates into position.

The installation of a moveable gantry is another particular challenge in construction of the UTB. This enables the safe movement of each 25 tonne plate and of proof test equipment involved in the final commissioning. The proof test exerts multiple forces of up to 100 tonnes onto the plate surface and its T-slots – this unique load requirement meant the T-slot depth was the largest ever cast by PES's German manufacturing and design facility.

When operational, a modular clamping element will fix tested equipment into position on the floor plates. Testing will then be monitored remotely from an adjacent control room so that the outcome can be monitored from a safe distance.

Upon completion of the UTB, a rigorous proof testing operation was completed to ensure the equipment is ready for use when the building is completed by Shepherd in Autumn 2004. The 2 week proof testing period produced maximum deflection figures far in excess of the requirements of the specification, in fact deflections of no greater than 0.03mm were recorded against a requirement of + - 0.25mm. All in all proving that this is a test area like no other.