Winch Drum for Offshore Application May 2004      

Angle Ring Company Ltd, working from their extensive production facility in the West Midlands, have completed two large Marine Winch Drum fabrications for a leading supplier to the industry.
 

Utilising it s considerable experience in heavy steel cylinders fabrication the cylinder was completed and shipped to schedule. The 2540mm diameter x 4650mm long drum was manufactured from 50mm thick steel plate in two parts. The fabrication weighed in at 16 tonnes.

The drum incorporated internal Tee stiffeners as part of the fabrication assembly. Submerged arc welding was used for the plate welds and involved full weld testing and certification. Fabrication was undertaken with Lloyds approved welders backed by first class quality assurance.

Angle Ring Company, who themselves are celebrating over 50 years of service to industry, are the counties leading bending engineering companies. With capabilities to bend the largest structural sections, hollow sections and tubes up to 914mm diameter, Angle Ring have added new Plate Rolling and Press Braking capacity to provide a significant extension to the range of metal forming capabilities.

Photography by Paul Middleton
  Winch Drum, showing rolled & welded plate into cylinder & internal fabrication  

 
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