The new, and unique, 40mm bearing polyurethane wheels arrived to us prior to the container departing so all the 25cm pot trolleys will be making the voyage over. We got 200+ of them in this container (Black, Grey, Anodised & Mill) so it should keep us going for a while. We should be in a position to sell in around 3 weeks now as the boat left last Friday.
In other related trolley news I have given up trying to find a retail outlet to take on our trolleys. One of the requirements is that we charge alot more for these on our online store and while I accept that we need to raise pricing so as not to step on resellers toes there was little enthusiasm from the retailers who can only double the price and I feel we would just be destroying the market we’ve spent years to nurture. In light of that I have started to look at retailers offshore and am currently testing out trolleys with some people in the US, hopefully that might pan out better. If the US market does work it would likely mean a further expansion of the range to cater to it.
Our latest project has been back in the mining field. We have an enquiry from a gold miner in north Africa that was looking to replace the Ridgid spanners with a purpose made pipe spanner to suit the NQ, HQ & PQ rods. The spanner we came up with uses curved teeth with a hefty SC50 head. We have had an internal 450kg load test and it’s all good and we’re just about to send out the 1st for field trials with a forward order for quite a few more presuming no other alterations are required. Each head gets replaced depending on the rod size so there is not adjustment required. These spanners can be custom altered to suit hydraulic outputs if needed as well. Please get in touch if you would like more info (sales@alcast.om.au)
