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Wodan de Quick appointed as Crestchic’s new European Rental Director

Crestchic — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:57:30 +0000

Crestchic, the global leader in load bank manufacture, sales and rental, has appointed Wodan de Quick as its new European Rental Director. Wodan will be responsible for driving the company’s hire product range in key sectors, including focusing on data centres, generator and turbine operators and marine applications across Europe.

Chris Caldwell, Managing Director at Crestchic, said: “Wodan has an incredible track record of sales success across a multitude of industrial sectors. I’m therefore delighted to welcome him to our team and know that this is yet another positive step forward for the company’s ambitious expansion strategies.”

Wodan’s appointment follows news about the 2000 square metre expansion of Crestchic’s factory in Burton on Trent, allowing the company to meet and exceed the increased demand from the market.

Wodan de Quick added: “It’s an exciting time to be working at Crestchic and I’m already feeling the incredible buzz surrounding the future of the company. I have held management positions within Aggreko and Atlas Copco, especially in operations, production, maintenance, service, rental business and QHSE. I’m keen to bring all my experiences and knowledge to Crestchic, and as a forward thinking result orientated person, I love to exceed expectations through teamwork and collaboration. I truly believe nothing is impossible.”

Crestchic has been operating for over 30 years’ in the load testing arena, garnering an incredible reputation for delivering world leading products and services to some of the biggest industrial clients around the world.

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It’s plain sailing as Crestchic completes 20MVA loadtest at Finnish shipyard

Crestchic — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:30:37 +0000

Crestchic, the largest specialist loadbank manufacturer and supplier in the world, has recently completed its fifth cruise liner engine test at the Meyers shipyard in Turku, Finland; working alongside leading industry-established generator and turbine companies.

The work involved transportation and on-site management of a 20MVA loadtest operating at 11kV/60Hz utilising two 6MVA Resistive/Reactive and two 6MVA Resistive loadbanks. Completing the package, Crestchic also provided the associated multi-tap and fixed transformers, distribution equipment and over 100m of MV and LV cabling.

Simon Butler, Technical Support Manager at Crestchic, said: “We were contracted to test the turbines on the ‘Mien Shiff’, a TUI group luxury cruise liner, while it was at the Meyers shipyard in Finland.

“Our rental division worked tirelessly to ensure we met all customer deadlines, allowing us to boast a first-class service that we are very much renowned for across the marine and shipyards sectors.”

The UK rental team have successfully supplied loadbank packages to test all of the TUI group ships to-date on behalf of its industry partners.

Founded in 1983, Crestchic is one of the world’s leading specialist manufacturers of loadbanks which are used in the testing of power supplies in the most demanding climactic and environmental conditions across seven continents. Operating from locations in the UK, North America, Singapore, Netherlands, France, Germany, Brazil and Dubai, the company is at the forefront of innovation and design, with thriving sales and rental operations and a loyal and growing customer base worldwide.

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20MVA package for Finnish dockyard

Crestchic — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:07:04 +0000

For the last 35 years, Crestchic, the world leading load bank manufacturer, has been provisioning load test equipment to the oil, gas, aviation, managed facilities and marine industries. The in-depth knowledge and unparalleled customer service that Crestchic is renowned for, lead to the company recently hiring out a 20MVA load bank package operating at 11kV to a commercial dockyard in Finland. Paul Brickman, Crestchic’s Sales and Marketing Director, added: “We supply load banks to many of the world’s leading ship builders and dockyards, regularly provisioning load test packages of 20MVA and above, including step down transformers, to simulate the most stressing situations that may be experienced in the real environment.”

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Scottish dockyard gets ‘Fusion’ loadbank package

Crestchic — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:13:58 +0000

Crestchic Loadbanks has recently supplied a naval dockyard in Scotland with a DC load bank running Crestchic’s proprietary ‘Fusion’ software. The Fusion control system provides Crestchic’s range of DC load banks with a facility to perform constant-current or constant power discharge tests. The real-time data acquisition, which comes from the load bank through the microprocessor controlled fusion interface, allows operators finite control of the load bank and the battery discharge process.

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