Forth and Tay members
Reekie Machining Ltd.
Business type: Engineering
Contact: Colin Turnbull, Business Development Manager
Address: Inchinnan Business Park, Renfrew PA4 9RL
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Countries worked in: We can operate our insitu service(s) globally
Reekie Machining Ltd is an insitu/on-site machining company based in Renfrew Scotland. The company has been in existence since 1947 and is now in 3rd generation owned/managed. We also have a fully equipped machine shop with both CNC & conventional equipment, this facility is used for manufacture of our own equipment and also serves as a sub-contract manufacturing unit for general industry.
The company is involved in the following sectors, Nuclear, Defence, Marine, Renewables & OIl & Gas and includes within its portfolio, EDF Energy, Babcock International & BAE Systems.
Capabilities
Established supplier with significant experience supplying the sector
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Onshore Surveys
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Front End Engineering & Design Studies
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: Project Management & Programme Management
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: Specialist tools, parts, PPE, lifesaving, chandlery
- CAPEX - Turbine Services: Shoreside Engineering Services
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Offshore Equipment Services
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Offshore Labour Services
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Turbine Maintenance & spare parts
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Wind turbine blade access, Inspection & Repair
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Training & provision of technicians to carry out BoP maintenance
Good capacity and some experience in supplying the sector
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: QS & Financial Management
- CAPEX - Turbine Services: Blade or Composite Services
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Vessel repairs and liftout services
- Decommissioning: Decommissioning
Capabilities to supply, but no/limited experience in the sector
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Testing and Certifications
Ambitions to diversify in the sector
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Civils support services including plant hire & QS services
Case studies
See below hyperlink which will take you directly to the case study page on our website, this gives full fetail/scope og the project. https://www.reekiemachining.co.uk/case_study/gwynt-y-mor-ventilation-retrofit-trepanning-200-and-100-dia-holes/
Value: £30000.00
Due to the unforeseen hazard of gas build up below the airtight platform in the offshore wind towers, the client required a ventilation system installed. This required several large penetrations through the deck and wall of the tower, the largest of which was 200 dia through 70mm thick. Drilling of service holes or tack welding location plates to secure equipment was prohibited. We were challenged to complete all machining within 2 days The equipment needed to man handle-able to make transfers from the supply vessel down into the machining location as easy as possible and had to run off 100V 16amp supply. Reekie used its own design of trepanning tool with our MFT machine driven by an electric motor. Following optimisation through trials we managed to get the machining of the 200 dia hole through 70mm think down to 45 mins, using a single man operation Each tower consisting of two 200 dia penetrations, two of 100 dia penetrations, were completed within a couple of shifts – including mob and demob of equipment onto tower, marking off hole positions and creating a post machining report. A total of 80 off towers have been modified to date
See below hyperlink https://www.reekiemachining.co.uk/gwynt-y-mor-offshore-wind-farm-project/
Value: £60000
20 wind towers of the 60, on Phase 2 of the Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm have successfully been machined by Reekie’s In Situ Machining Team. Reekie Machining are currently assisting with essential upgrade work to a further 60 out of the 160 wind turbines that sit off the North coast of Wales, after the successful completion of Phase 1, earlier this year. Reekie Machining have been challenged to machine various penetration holes, the largest of these is 200mm in diameter through the tower wall that is 65mm thick, to allow for a new ventilation system. Within the tight confinements of the wind tower this has required a specialist light weight but powerful trepanning machine tool to be developed to meet the challenge of machining each to ø 200mm x 65mm hole in under 60 minutes. Through engineering solutions, the on site machinists have a robust system in place to carry out this essential work. Gwynt y Mor is the fourth largest operating offshore windfarm in the work, producing 576-megawatts. The turbines tip height is 150 meters off mean sea level.
