McQuillan Boilers Part of the McQuillan group
24 hour breakdown service
Work began by electrically isolating the whole plant, disconnecting the Burners/control panels and marking up all electrical connections to ensure Interpac had easy commissioning in Egypt.
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Electrical Disconnection
In May 2016 it was announced that Polestar, one of the UK's leading printers, was heading into liquidation. This quickly alerted our attention and the attention of one of our engineers who helped first commission the Hamworthy burners.
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Due to the rare opportunity that Boilers of this size come on to the market we knew we had to act fast in order to secure these Boilers before anyone else.
On the 25th may 2016 we first began to contact PWC, who was in charge of the liquidation of Polestar. By the 27th may 2016 we had already a date agreed with PWC that we would meet them on site to view the plant.
On Monday 6th of June 2016 we made our way to Sheffield to meet with Tom our PWC contact to view the Boilers, take any necessary details down and to look at the best and safest way to remove the plant from inside the Boiler House.
After viewing the plant the hard work began in working out a suitable offer for the plant and finding a new home. After speaking to a few of our agents, they began to advertise the boilers to potential customers, while in the background working hard to agree a deal with PWC. After coming close to agreeing a deal with PWC we received a phone call stating that PWC was leaving site in 7 days and if we wanted the Boilers we had 5 days to remove the entire Boiler house or the Boilers would return to the Landlord. This was impossible as the size of the job to remove was HUGE. After what felt like a massive set back and made any potential deal feel a million miles away we began to enter into negotiations with Lambert Smith Hampton. After long negotiations we came to an agreement with Lambert Smith Hampton.
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Interpac
By the time we had finally purchased the Plant our American Agent had already lined up two potential customers, one been Interpac. On Thursday 4th August 2016 Interpac organised for two Boiler specialist to fly over to inspect the Boiler plant and issue a full report. Aswell as Interpac another potential customer came to site to inspect the boiler plant on 29th august 2016. After both parties inspecting the boilers both parties was willing to make an offer for the boilers. On Tuesday 20th September 2016 we began commercial discussions with Interpac Egypt via an online conference call. During this meeting we came to a verbal agreement over the sale of the entire Boiler Plant, all that was left was for contracts to be drawn up and signed by both parties.
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Removal of the boiler
On Monday 3rd October 2016 the hard work began. What was already a huge task in removing the boilers the task was made harder due to the fact we had to be off site by Friday 4th Novembers.
After everything electrically was disconnected we moved on to marking every component up again to ensure easy installment over in Egypt.
Marking up
Once we had marked everything up the removal of all the steam lines began. Most companies would usually cut through these steam, but to ensure Interpac could reuse as much as possible we un-tightened every Nut and Bolt.
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As well as all the steam lines the Burners and valves also had to be stripped off the boilers in order to make the Boilers small enough for transport.
Removing the Boilerhouse walls
After some consideration it was decided that it would be best to skate the Boilers out of the Boilerhouse rather than lift them out. This involved removing the front of the boiler house.
Stripping of the Boilers
Removal of the Boilers
After weeks of planning and two very tense days