We are a new company with investment in new machinery capable of balancing up to 6 metres in length and components weighing up to 3 tons. Fan units up to 2 metres diameter can be accommodated. Trained staff operated both belt and head driven balancing machines for greater flexibility. By creating a local service with easy access to the motorway network we can greatly reduce logistic costs previously incurred due to the necessity to travel out of the area to have components balanced.

Why is balancing so important?
Why are some machines noisier than others?
Why does the valve of a bicycle wheel settle at the lowest point if allowed to turn freely?
Why does the steering wheel of a car vibrate at certain speeds?
Almost everyday, we come across a phenomenon whose effects are often underestimated ­ unbalanced

The term ‘unbalanced’ has to do with ‘balance’. A pair of scales is in balance if the same weight is on both sides of the weight beam. The mass distribution of a rotor with reference to its axis of rotation may be looked at in the same way. An unevenly distributed mass is referred to as an unbalance. In case of rotation, it gives rise to centrifugal forces, vibrations and noises, the effects of which are increasingly harmful and undesirable with growing speed.

Dynamic unbalance
In reality, a rotor does not have a single unbalance, but ­ theoretically ­ an infinite number of unbalances arbitrarily distributed along the axis of rotation. These may be replaced by resulting unbalances (represented as arrows in the diagrams) in two arbitrary planes. As general rule, these resulting unbalances have different amounts and angular positions. Since this unbalance state can only be fully determined during rotation, this type of unbalance is referred to as dynamic unbalance. It may be split into a static and a couple unbalance. One of these two portions may be larger than the other.

Forces due to unbalance are eliminated by balancing
Forces due to unbalance, undesirable vibrations and noises, are eliminated by balancing. In this process, the mass distribution of a rotor is improved in such a way that the centrifugal forces acting in its bearings are reduced. In addition, the type of the unbalance must be taken into account when a rotor is to be balanced.