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Industrial Clutch Parts are proud to be awarded the prestigious Distributor of the Year for 2022 for the second year in a row. In addition to that, ICP is #1 in Assemblies and is the second-largest reseller in Mechanical Sales.

WPT Power Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of a wide range of mechanical power transmission and winch products. The products are used in heavy-duty industrial applications and are used to operate, control and transfer power and torque. Industrial Clutch Parts distribute the full range of WPT products and are the major European distributor for Mechanical PTO units. Customers are served in a varied group of industries, including Energy, Agriculture, Forestry, Marine, Mining, and Off-Highway to name a few. The full WPT product portfolio includes Power Take-offs, hydraulic and pneumatic clutches and brakes, winches, and hoists.

Byron Baber, WPT Power General Sales Manager, said, “WPT congratulates Industrial Clutch parts on their exceptional performance over the last 12 months. ICP has contributed to the overall best results ever over the past year. The criteria for the awards include: sales performance, superior customer service and support, and a high level of commitment to the WPT partnership”

Mike Wallworth, ICP Sales Director, said, “ICP’s success has been achieved by getting WPT clutches and brakes installed in New machinery at OEMs and replacing competitor units in end users. WPTs high-quality products, customer service and application backup help us do this. Furthermore, ICP’s high level of WPT stock parts in our UK warehouse supports WPT products in our customers across Europe quickly and efficiently.”

“We are proud to partner with WPT and to have received these prestigious awards. It reinforces our position as market leaders of industrial clutches and brakes globally. WPT Power has

Industrial Clutch Parts (ICP) continue to build their strong partnership with WPT Power Corporation.

Last month, three members of ICP sales team attended training in Dallas, Wichita Falls, to develop their technical knowledge and understanding of WPT’s mechanical power transmission product line.

The team spent a week at WPT Power’s head office, undertaking both theoretical and hands-on training. Throughout the week, group sessions focused on Engine Driven Products, specifically power take-off clutches, Industrial Clutches and Industrial Brakes.

As WPT’s leading distributor, ICP understands the need to provide responsive and knowledgeable sales and technical support worldwide. The strong partnership between ICP and WPT provides a customer care approach to ensure product needs are met quickly and with minimum downtime.

View the full range of WPT Power mechanical power transmission products online.

Website: https://www.industrialclutch.com/manufacturers/wpt-power-corporation.html

Email: sales@industrialclutch.com

Telephone: +44 (0) 1663 734627

A large part of WPT’s success in the metal forming industry has been the ability to adapt to the many applications needed to arrive at a finished product. From shearing to stamping and bending to slitting, our clutches and brakes can be found performing to, and in some cases exceeding machine manufacturers’ expectations.

Recently, the applications team was called on to provide a solution for a tensioning brake application for a slitter line manufacturer. The customer needed a tensioning brake that was small but could still handle the heat generated by the application. After a thorough analysis of the data, it was decided that an air-cooled, Low Inertia Brake was the appropriate model for the job.

The WPT Low Inertia Brake is constructed of smaller, lighter parts that require less energy to turn, thereby generating less heat. This, coupled with the ventilated design of the housing, allows superior heat dissipation to be achieved. The WPT Low Inertia Brake makes an excellent choice for tensioning applications in both dragging, as well as holding operations.

If you are a manufacturer of metal forming equipment and need a clutch or brake in the design of your coil handling machine, contact Industrial Clutch Parts today.

We have sales application specialists who can work with you to help determine the correct clutch or brake for your application.

Contact: sales@industrialclutch.com or visit the website:www.industrialclutch.com

We are proud to be sponsoring the Whaley Bridge AFC U12’s boys kit for the next 2 seasons! We all look forward to supporting the local team and we wish them the best of luck for the forthcoming season competing in the Stockport Metro League.

Does the quality of products and processes matter to you and influence which companies you do business with?

It certainly does to us at Industrial Clutch Parts Ltd., which is why it’s important to demonstrate our commitment to quality through accreditations.

We are proud to announce that we have just retained and renewed the ISO9001 - 2015 which means our customers can be assured we operate a Quality Management System covering the scope of Supply, Storage, Distribution, Assembly of Clutch and Brake Systems, and Supply of Friction Materials to our chosen markets.

How are the certifications awarded? Renewed every three years, after a full audit of the company and its processes the standard is dedicated to guarantee safe, reliable, and good quality products and processes.

ISO9001- 2015 Quality Management demonstrates that our company and team are able to respond effectively to our customer’s expectations through a set of best practices and processes. Our customers can be assured that not only ICP Ltd but our suppliers are also upholding the level of good practice and process that we do.

To see our full certificate of accreditation please click here.

Girol Rotating unions

Girol rotating unions are used in a wide variety of applications, especially in steel, paper, rubber and plastic, chemical, food, glass, packaging industries, and many other sectors. Industrial Clutch Parts Ltd is proud to be the UK Distributor for this well-respected brand.

Available from single to multi-passage versions and with different sealing principles.

Girol rotating unions have the ability to transfer fluids such as water, hot oil, air, compressed air, and vacuum.  

Interchangeable with leading manufactures on the market, including Deublin. Girol will compete with prices and improve lead times. 

Our technical office is always committed to experimenting and finding new solutions to adapt to a constantly changing market, which always requires high-performance products for lower prices. Girol quality has enabled us to grow each year and to acquire new customers all over the world.

Industrial Clutch Parts can offer a speedy turnaround on the majority of standard unions, and can quickly identify Deublin and other manufacturers' references offering the customer a timely solution to their potential machine downtime.

Contact sales@industrialclutch.com for more information, or visit our website: www.industrialclutch.com

Industrial Clutch Parts Ltd. recent success story involves the gate and latch systems at the River Foss Barrier in York. ICP engineers provided a number of fail-safe emergency brakes and hydraulic power units (HPU’s) to operate the River Foss Flood Barrier. ICP supplied a braking system that features a triple fail-safe system of torque-limited service brake with twin parallel e-brake systems as backup, for maximum safety & integrity.

After many years of flash flooding, the York Water Authority commissioned the River Foss Barrier. The main aim of the defense is to prevent backwash from the River Ouse into the River Foss causing flooding upstream of the River Foss. When in an open position the barrier is held horizontally above the river, barges and boats pass underneath while regular, and efficient maintenance can be performed.

The normal water level at York is established at 5m. Once the River Ouse reaches 7.8m the alarms sound and the barrier is lowered into the Foss. Pumps are activated, the silt from the bed is cleared and the barrier can drop into a tight fit. The electrically driven barrier takes 4 minutes to lower into position. Eight pumps have been upgraded to pump approximately 50 cubic meters per second.

If you would like to discuss solution-based options with ICP's technical engineers, please contact:

Email: website@industrialclutch.com or Call: +44 (0) 1663 734627

Dog clutches are specialised claw couplings available for static or rotating operations. Used to connect a motor to an output shaft or shaft-to-shaft where the user wants to occasionally, manually disengage the drive between the two.

Dog Clutch is a type of clutch that uses intervention to link two rotating shafts or other rotating components like gears. It is most commonly used in the constant mesh gearbox. It functions by mating a set of regularly spaced teeth or protrusions on one half of the clutch mechanism to a set of identical recesses on the other.

This type of clutch engages not by friction but by interference. It has the benefit of allowing both shafts to turn at the same speed without slipping and with minimal clutch wear. Dog clutches cannot be used to control torque as is the case with a friction clutch. The two parts of the clutch are designed in such a way that one will push the other and both will rotate at the same speed and will never slip.

This type of clutch is made of two round plates, one fixed to the drive shaft or the gear and the other on the shaft being driven. One of the plates has a series of evenly spaced protrusions machined into its face, similar to a battlement on top of a castle wall. The other plate has an identically spaced series of like-sized recesses cut into its face.

When the two plates are brought together, the protrusions mate or fit into the recesses, thereby effectively joining the shafts and transferring rotational motion from one to another. Dog clutches are used when slip and friction are undesirable and the clutch is not used to control torque.

Advantages:

1) No-slip or friction involved after the engagement of the clutch.

2) Heat generation is much less as no friction occurs.

3) Cost is less than friction clutch of similar torque capacity.

Disadvantages:

1) Shock is caused while engagement of clutch at any speed.

2) Cannot be engaged at high speeds.

3) When both the diving and the driven shaft is at rest, some relative motion is required to engage.

Applications:

Dog clutches are mainly used in stick shift automobile gearboxes, marine propeller drives, and on drives of heavy machinery.

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Email: website@industrialclutch.com or Call: +44 (0) 1663 734627

Exactly one year on from the publication of Manufacturing Outlook’s worst results in the survey’s history, the mood music has changed dramatically.

In what has recently been a dejected pattern of quarters for the industry, manufacturers are now finally able to look to the future with earnest confidence. The industry is certainly not without its challenges, both ongoing and new, but the sector has now demonstrated that it can generate growth despite the still perilous circumstance.

The first of these antagonising musketeers comes in the form of the novel Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the UK and the EU. The onus of new protocols and paperwork wreaked havoc for British exporters in the first quarter of the year, reflected in the 40% drop in exports to the EU in January. Since then, businesses have overcome many of the hurdles imposed on them by this new arrangement, with the Make UK report detailing significant export improvements compared to the start of the year.

The second dampener to the industry’s recovery is the ongoing uncertainty generated by unpredictable COVID-19 regulations both here and abroad. While the UK has come leaps and bounds in recent months in terms of the economy reopening, many events critical to the prosperity of UK manufacturing, such as trade shows, struggle to go ahead.

The third, and perhaps the most prolific of challenges facing the sector lies in supply-chain disruptions. As the international business community enjoys a sudden spike in demand as the economy has sped up faster than expected, so too the strain on these already delicate supply-chains increases. Of course, just prior to this demand spike supply-chains were already significantly stressed owing to COVID-19 related pressures, but now with demand outstripping supply, or rather, the ability to supply in many cases, UK manufacturers are finding that they cannot affordably source inputs for their product, or cannot source inputs at any rate.