Movement for Commerce and Industry

COMMERCE

A wide range of commercial facilities such as visitor and heritage centres, museums, theatres, conference venues, entertainment centres, restaurants and bars, exhibition contractors and TV and film companies, use BTI’s engineering expertise to:

• Enhance the visitor and customer experience
• Control visitor flow
• Optimise available space
• Add impact and value
• Create a unique selling proposition (USP)

Whether the requirement is for a revolving bar or dance floor, an observation platform, a revolving stage, revolving auditorium or seating platform, or other purpose-engineered equipment – to move scenery or re-position seating blocks, for instance - BTI can provide a solution.

This is achieved by taking a multifaceted approach to designing and building to specific requirements, whatever the size or capacity of the equipment.

BTI will, where appropriate, combine control and positioning equipment with an interface to show control, working with others to ensure current Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) regulations are maintained.

Typical projects have included an 8 metre diameter revolving auditorium for the Theatr Botanica in the National Garden of Wales, where the theatre was built around the audience revolve itself; a stunning revolving bar for the prestigious Crewe Hall in Cheshire to add exclusivity and an individual feel to the bar and create an attractive and contemporary focal point for visitors; and a 28 metre diameter revolving seating platform for the Home Planet area of the Millennium Dome, the attraction’s only ‘ride’.

INDUSTRY

Industrial concerns such as foundries, repair work shops, fabrication and assembly halls, process plants, steel mills, paper mills, power generation facilities, order picking and packing facilities, automotive production line facilities and general manufacturers use BTI’s expertise to:

• Automate processes
• Improve ergonomics
• Minimise operator effort
• Optimise use of space
• Increase throughput
• Improve efficiency
• Reduce reliance on forklift replenishment

BTI designs and builds a range of equipment for industrial applications to almost any size and capacity, manual or powered, using a multifaceted engineering approach to design and build to suit the process.

From manual manipulator devices with simple forward and backward movement to automated positioning systems, BTI offers efficient, flexible and cost-effective mechanical handling solutions that will present equipment to the production line, or product to the operator, while improving ergonomics, minimising operator effort and reducing reliance on forklift replenishment.

Typical applications include: simple bench-mounted assembly turntables; product accumulators to assist in order processing; manual and powered turntables to improve loading efficiency; large revolves to support and turn paper reels; high capacity foundry turntables with automatic control to turn large castings for fettling; traversers and rail-mounted revolves to alter the direction of railed or wheeled vehicles; production line feeder turntables to minimise use of forklift trucks; and equipment to present goods to a production facility in the correct orientation.

The above information is available on an A4 printable PDF brochure along with actual case studies on our Downloads page.