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- Renewal of BAE Systems Supply Certification.
- TUV SUD Annual production monitoring approval.
- CD Energy Initiative.
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BAE Systems - Quality Department, have renewed our supply approval, effective 1st September 2008 with
no expiry date. This means that Copely Developments Ltd are included on the BAE
Systems Units Register of Evaluated Suppliers for Military Programme activities. In
effect, this means that we can supply directly or indirectly, tubes developed for use
on specified aircraft including Eurofighter, currently supplied to the Royal Air
Force and other NATO air forces. Copely have been a supplier for various BAE
programmes in the past, including those for Tornado and Jaguar aircraft.
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TUV SUD Annual production monitoring - Quality engineers from TUV SUD in Germany
visited our plant in Leicester earlier this year, and following an extensive audit of our
manufacturing facilities have granted us continuing accreditation up to November 2009.
This approval allows us to surface mark specific hose ranges with the TUV logo, a symbol
of quality which receives international recognition. Many of our European clients have
discovered that the inclusion of this logo, alongside our own registered CD Trade Mark, has
enhanced the image of their merchandise and increased sales in their respective regions. This
is indeed good news, against a backdrop of low cost unapproved products from the Far East, some of
which is of dubious quality, noncompliant with RoHS - and with potential performance issues.
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| CD Energy Initiative |
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As large users of electrical power in our manufacturing process and following professional advice from consultants
such as PERA (Production Engineering Research Association) and The Carbon Trust, we initiated our Energy
efficiency programme during 2007. Since then, we have installed a completely new energy efficient water recycling
system for the factory in order to provide cooling water to all our processing machines. This has shown real savings
in consumption and whilst the costs imposed on us by the energy suppliers continue to rise sharply, our efficiency has
overall improved. We have also completely replaced 350 internal fluorescent lighting tubes in the works, warehouse
and office areas, for high efficiency ones and expect to effectively have payback of capital cost by reduced energy
bills in around one year. As makers of energy efficient strip doors, we naturally provide all our external doorways
with these screens too.
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Sophie Adcock, an engineering trainee, under the guidance of Doug Stafford, engineering manager
and team, has designed a fully automatic electronic shut off for our 'airwipe' system used
for removing excess water from product at the manufacturing stage. We are evaluating the potential
annual energy savings now being achieve if applied across the whole factory. Additional
benefits also include some reduction in noise pollution within the working area.
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| Our Energy Committee will report on progress and further initiatives are planned in all areas appertaining to utility management. |
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