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If you visit the Advanced Materials Laboratory at Birmingham University you will find a number of special purpose test instruments we have built. Of particular note is our own ‘TriXR’ tribometer for friction and wear experimentation. Using industrial drives for cost efficiency married to custom developed load sensing beams and open plan design, this versatile machine has proved a great success. With both rotary and linear motion and a range of accessories all built in-house at Longshore.

A customer with a manufacturing laboratory required a way of containing small beakers of acetone to prevent spillage that could be quickly opened with one hand. They had to be aesthetically pleasing and within a tight budget. We designed and manufactured these 3 part billet aluminium flasks with engraved stainless steel flip lids within 4 weeks.

A Laminar flow manifold manufactured from 3 parts in 316 Stainless steel. The upper face shown consists of a 2.5mm thick insert through which we drill twenty 0.35mm holes - this is then laser welded into the larger component and then re-machined. Having helped our customer prototype them we are now pleased to have been awarded the manufacture of these together with the larger assembly which we build as a production item. We have worked closely with Surface Measurement Systems Ltd for many years and have been involved as a sub-contractor on many of their product lines: www.thesorptionsolution.com

We have over a decade of experience in thermal / humidity and process control instrumentation. Some

examples of recent work include:

We were approached by the worlds largest non-metallic mining company who’s search for an off-the -shelf solution had run dry. The process of drying china clay can give off Sulphur Dioxide which they wanted to monitor remotely. Whilst SO2 analysers are available they are not designed to be used in harsh environments. Our customer also wanted to monitor 8 different zones of the manufacturing site and had automated calibration. We deigned a complete instrument using a commercially available analyser and then integrated it with our own designed zero dead-volume valve manifold and process control, packaged up in a sturdy  IP rated enclosure - all built, machined, wired and tested in-house.