October 2020

Northern Ireland-based manufacturer of bespoke, precision-engineered hydraulic cylinders, Northern Hydraulics, has launched its brand new website. The newly revamped NorthernHydraulics.com offers customers more comprehensive details on the company’s high standard of industry- specific hydraulic cylinders, which Northern Hydraulics takes from concept and design stage all the way through to production and delivery. The Tyrone-based manufacturer has upgraded its entire digital platform. An improved Careers section highlights the many benefits of working with Northern Hydraulics, as well as offering prospective team members the ability view and apply for jobs via the website. Long-standing customers of Northern Hydraulics across multiple industries including materials processing, agriculture, waste & recycling, commercial vehicles and aerial work platforms, (including Metso, Terex, McCloskeys and Miller UK) are highlighted in the new Clients section. The Deloitte Best Managed Company (2019 and again in 2020) delivered the website in September this year, despite a very challenging summer nationwide. Safe return to business Following a period of closure during lockdown, Northern Hydraulics organised a staged, safe return to business in late NEWS Northern Hydraulics Ltd launches new website spring and is now back to capacity, manufacturing up to 125,000 cylinders every year, with capacity for up to 180,000. Northern Hydraulics credits its successful return to full capacity to its skilled and agile team, which is reported to have been working harder than ever to deliver an exceptionally high standard to customers worldwide. Northern Hydraulics’ managing director, Michael Ferran, comments: “Despite a very challenging summer, our highly skilled and agile team have been absolutely fantastic at getting to grips with and overcoming the challenges we’ve faced. We are extremely proud of what the team here at Northern Hydraulics Ltd has achieved, in spite of all the obstacles we’ve encountered. Our new website forms part of our next chapter. The remainder of 2020 and 2021 will bring fresh challenges, but we feel well equipped to deal with anything that comes our way.” The new website has been launched alongside a new plan for fresh content and increased engagement through the company’s three social media platforms; Linkedin.com, Facebook.com/NorthernHydraulicsCylind ers and Twitter.com/northernhydr. Gates, the global provider of application- specific fluid power and power transmission solutions, has unveiled a new series of technical and commercial webinars designed to increase support for its industrial product ranges throughout EMEA. The webinar sessions will allow Gates’ technical experts the opportunity to address specific topics, ranging from live product unveilings, a virtual tour of the testing facility to technical trainings on safety, and provide technical support and improved access to essential data. Gates recently released several fluid power and power transmission product-focused webinars to pilot the program which were met with great success, this included a live unveiling of the new MXG 4K hose. Contamination prevention The new webinar series will include additional product-focused offerings as well as technical training. Gates’ ‘Crimper Training’, for example, will review practicalities involved with hose assemblies, identify safety measures to consider and outline steps to prevent contamination. The ‘e-Crimp’ webinar will provide users with enhanced product information as well as tips and tricks as how to access the most appropriate data available to ensure the most effective and efficient crimping results. Subsequent webinars will also include in-depth technical case studies, as well as solutions to overcome common problems that may emerge in the field and additional subject areas identified by distributors, who are often the first call for technical support. Full details of the webinar schedule and details as how to register are available from: https://www.gates.com/gb/en/ knowledge-centre/ training/live- webinars.html Gates delivers new webinar series to meet market’s demand for increased online support 12 HYDRAULICS & PNEUMATICS October 2020 www.hpmag.co.uk