At this year’s Offshore Energy exhibition, a leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, is pleased to announce a new 500te Linear Winch to its range of specialised deck equipment. The company will be showcasing its extensive range of products and services supplied to European clients operating within Marine, Renewables and Oil & Gas sectors.
In recent months ACE Winches has delivered equipment and services for a number of key projects for European based companies, worth over £1.4m. These projects have varied in type, including deck machinery maintenance and inspection, spooling and re-spooling operations, installing and managing a 4-point mooring system and the manufacture of a bespoke twin chain winch package.
The new 500te Linear Winch has been designed, engineered and manufactured at ACE Winches facilities in Aberdeenshire, UK. The new product is now in its final stages of FAT testing, with mobilisation scheduled for mid-December 2016 for its first contract. The contract will conclude in early spring 2017 when the unit will be available for hire.
With more than 25 years of experience, ACE Winches routinely demonstrates its breadth and range of products and services available for hire or purchase. One recent project involved the maintenance and inspection of wire rope which required an ACE spooling winch, associated auxiliary equipment and four ACE Service personnel to undertake the full inspection, cleaning and re-spooling of wire rope prior to it being used for an offshore project. The rope, which had been in service, was inspected for damage, cleaned and re-greased before being re-spooled back onto a drum without torsion in the wire. An in-line NDE inspector was used during the spooling process to assess the wire rope’s usability for the project. A team of operational technicians and engineers from ACE Winches managed the operations whilst witnessed and approved by the client.
