Manufacturing & Testing

Manufacturing

Hydra-Capsule have the facility to meet a number of applications including manufacturing standard and bespoke flat jacks, hydraulic jacks and hydraulic cylinders. Ranging from plain ram, screw ram and hollow ram cylinders with the option of single-acting to double-acting cylinders with load capacity from 1 tonne to over 2000 tonnes. Please contact us for your requirements.

All our hydraulic cylinders are fully designed by calculations and built to BS EN ISO 9001:2008 quality standards. Manufactured fully within the United Kingdom.

We have extensive experience within the sector and can provide the below services:

• Hydraulic Cylinders from customer drawings
• Bespoke Hydraulic Cylinders
• Hydraulic Cylinder Repairs
• Hydraulic Seal Kits
• Refurbishment Service
• Maintenance and Inspection facility

Testing

Hydra-Capsule has the ability, in-house facility, to carry out load testing of hydraulic cylinders, pressurising of hydraulic equipment and calibration of hydraulic equipment through our hydraulic test-press.

Our purpose-built allows for monitoring to be carried out for a period of time and applications such as hydraulic jacks load testing, hydraulic pressure circuit testing and vertical bridge bearings. With all information data-logged through our computer monitoring system.

Advantages of Load Testing and Manufacturing Services:

• Bespoke design and manufacturing of all hydraulic jacks and cylinder upto 2,000 tonnes capacity
• With the largest comprehensive hydraulic jacks and associated jacking equipment we are more likely to stock a temporary solution during repair, servicing and manufacturing of other hydraulic jacks.
• We can manufacture one-off specials or bulk purchases with low lead-in and short turnaround duration
• Range of monitoring services from real-time to remote access can be included into all systems set-ups for load-testing
• Our expertise ranges from over 30 years of industry experience within the propping and jacking sector
• All cylinders are LOLER tested and UKAS traceable