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Monday, 30 October 2017 09:12

New Mentor Drive Keeps Roberts Mart Going

Blackburn-based industrial automation spare parts and repair supplier Northern Industrial has retrofitted a Control Techniques Mentor MP DC drive for food packaging specialist Roberts Mart & Co Ltd.

2017 10 30 085859The new drive replaces the old drive on a plastic extrusion machine, making collation shrink wrap for the food industry, which had started to fail pulling excessive current.

Leeds-based Roberts Mart supplies all types of printed flexible packaging to a cross-section of industries including frozen and chilled food, home textiles and tissue paper manufacturers.

Northern Industrial is a multi-award-winning provider of new, reconditioned and obsolete parts and repair services, and a licensed seller of new products from Control Techniques, Danfoss and Beijer.  Sourcing from over 1,350 manufacturers, the company covers over 200,000 part numbers, holding approximately £7m in stock, and exports to customers in 132 countries worldwide.

Managing director David Lenehan said: “At Northern Industrial, our written mission statement is, ‘to save the world from downtime, one part at a time...’.  On the Roberts Mart production line, repair wasn’t an option because of production and downtime limits so the new MP was specified.  With it being a direct replacement, the conversion was made simpler and downtime minimised, ensuring reliability for years to come.”

Roberts Mart

Roberts Mart was founded by William Roberts in 1852 and from paper merchanting, commercial printing and producing paper bags it has now developed into one of the UK’s leading specialist producers of high performance packaging films used in a variety of industry sectors including food, beverage and household textiles like duvets.

Co-directors William and Ben are sixth generation of the Roberts family to run the firm, following in the footsteps of their father and chairman John, who has recently been given an Outstanding Contribution award by the British Printing Industries Federation after over 50 years’ service with the company.

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