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We are please to give you the first peak at the front and back cover of our NEW brochure that will be rolling hot off the press!
The Business Development Team have worked with GEO-Graphics Design to produce a brochure that shows what we do here at Reekie Machining both out on site by the in situ machinist and the sub contract work carried out in the machine shop.
Engineering solutions to problems small and large is what we thrive on, so get in touch and challenge us!
Contact the Business Development Team:
Gordon Norman, gordonnorman@reekiemachining.co.uk or Steve Johnson, stevejohnson@reekiemachining.co.uk
PDF version available from our downloads section
This summer we are pleased to have taken on Gareth Mitchell, a 4th year student on a five year, MEng Aero-Mechanical Engineering Course at the University of Strathclyde, as an Intern. Reekie Machining believes this is a fantastic opportunity to support and build skills in the future generation of engineers.
Here is what Gareth has to say about his experience:
I was looking for an internship that was based around CAD Modeling in an industrial setting, to experience it out with a learning environment. Reekie’s delivers high quality products, so I felt the knowledge I would be able to gain would be of a high level of competency and the experience of a smaller company of this style could involve more dynamic roles.
My knowledge of engineering drawing has hugely increased, through creating drawings for actual parts, which is in line with what I wish to do for a career. Specifically, with making drawings easier to read, when sometime it contradicts some of what we have been taught. I’ve learnt a lot about tolerancing; how to decide on a tolerance and what is realistically achievable. In addition, I have also been able to get a better grasp on the actual manufacturing processes and the machines that are required.
If someone is hoping to improve their CAD skills in an industrial environment and looking to gain more experience in a professional engineering workplace, I would definitely recommend an Internship at Reekie Machining, and probably over a larger company in which sometimes you can just become “part of the crowd”.
One of the things that is good about Reekie’s is that they work in such a diverse plethora of sectors, so that you can gain knowledge and experience in any type of work.
Interested in a future Internship, contact charlotte@reekiemachining.co.uk
It has been a very busy couple of months at Reekie Machining and our Insitu Team are rapidly building up air miles to complete jobs Worldwide.
This is all on top of the work being carried out on site across the UK, from Plymouth in Devon to Wick in Caithness.
Prior to all these jobs key jigs and tooling was machined by the Subcontract Machine Shop, here in our workshop in Renfrew. This ensured that once on site the Insitu Team are fully prepped to carry out the job.
Where will Reekie Machining be needed next?
Photo: Macae, Brazil, taken by Tam McLardie
Along with upgrading machines for vertical boring we also continue to build the capacity within the work shop for turning, installing a Takisawa EX-110 CNC centre lathe. Pictured above is the lathe being manoeuvre into position in the Machine Shop.
It is equipped with:
Is this the answer to solve your problem? If so, contact one of our Machine Shop Project Engineers by emailing machineshop@reekiemachining.co.uk
At Reekie Machining we don’t like to sit around, so after the installation of the Giddings and Lewis, 5ft vertical borer last year we have already had it upgraded, through retro-fitting it with a new fanuc CNC system.
Picture above are two of Reekies’ finest Subcontract Machinist receiving training in the machine shop, to ensure that they are fully versed in what the system can achieve, broadening the range of work that we can offer our customers.
So come on, what are you waiting for, we’re ready for the next challenge!
After a lot of hard work and commitment, Ross Cameron completed his Level 2 Modern Apprenticeship in Industrial Applications: Performing Industrial Operations. He is pictured above receiving his certificate from Jared Reekie the Machine Shop Director at a tool box talk.
Ross will continue to develop and hone his skills on the wide range of machines in the workshop including boring, milling and turning and being a key part of the Reekie Team.
At Reekie Machining, our apprentices are distinguished by wearing a maroon boiler suits, moving into the blue boiler suits once qualified. Ross is now proudly wearing his new blue boiler suit, which has drawn comments from the Machine Shop and In Situ staff a like.
Congratulations Ross.
The footage shows our 6ft (1.22m) CNC GLF vertical boring machine, taking a cut on a stainless steel casting for pump components. This boring machine was bought to give us the ability to cover a wide scope of jobs, filling the gap between our two conventional vertical boring machines, 4ft (0.61m) and 8ft (1.82m) that Reekie Machining already had in operation. To further improve the capability of the 6ft (1.22m) CNC GLF vertical borer Reekie are investing an additional £50k to retrofit the control system of the machine.
This has widened the scope of jobs that we are able to offer our customers. If this is something you we can do for you or for any other enquires for the machine shop please contact:
Jared Reekie or Jim Richmond or email machineshop@reekiemachining.co.uk
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.
The Reekie Family are not just experts in, in situ and onsite machining; they are also very talented athletes. Jared Reekie, the Machine Shop Director has taken time off from the busy engineering firm to support his daughter Jemma Reekie, who is competing as part of the GB Senior Athletics squad at the European Games 2018 in Berlin.
In true Reekie style, Jemma’s determination and dedication to working hard and being the best she can be, will be on show today as she competes in the women’s 1500m heats. Good Luck Jemma!
At the beginning of April, a 10 ton forklift arrived in the car park at Reekie Machining, along with 30” to 48”, 12 meter carbon steel free issue pipes to be cut and manufactured into PUPs (partial unit of pipe)to be used on a gas pipe line.
Over the past four months, 383 PUPs have been manufactured; this has been a coordinated approach between the Insitu Machinists and those in the Machine Shop to carry out the work, keeping to the strict timetable to meet our customers needs. The pipes were initially cut using a split casing pipe cutter, a machine generally used on site but being utilised here in the production environment, then having an internal and external 50mm bead of weld ground back from the machined face before weld prepped using both CNC and conventional vertical boring machines, machining out around the clock.
A technical issue arose with the 48” pipes ovality being up to 10/15mm out of round. It was not possible with the standard equipment to machine a consistent root face as required. Being solution focused at Reekie, existing tooling was modifying to fit on our vertical borer to follow the ovality profile giving the required root face within the tolerance requirements.
Prior to being sent out to the site, each PUP under went a magnetic particle inspection, (MPI), carried out by Scot-Test Ltd to sign them off as having no defects. The last ones left the yard on 18thJuly 2018 and Reekie Machining Yard returned to normal, until the next time!
The picture shows a variety of sizes of the pups, some ready to be collected and those waiting to be weld prepped.
