Angie Wallace, Product Line Director at Enerpac Tool Group, discusses how technician feedback, offshore working conditions and the growing demand for mobility shaped the development of the LU-Series hydraulic pump for wind installation and maintenance teams.
PES: Welcome to PES Wind, it’s great to have you with us. To start, can you set the scene for us? What were you hearing from wind installation and maintenance teams that sparked the development of the LU-Series?
Angie Wallace: What we consistently heard from wind technicians was that much of their day-to-day work didn’t require large, continuous-duty equipment. Instead, they were completing smaller, intermittent tasks, such as routine torque checks, maintenance work or servicing a limited number of bolts across multiple turbines. Existing solutions were often oversized, difficult to transport and not optimized for that type of work.
The LU-Series was developed to address that gap: a lightweight, portable pump designed specifically for intermittent-duty applications, delivering the performance crews need without the burden of larger systems.