Tuesday, 14 April 2015
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Recent moves away from strong steel slides to lightweight aluminium profiles have been necessary to reduce vehicle payloads and increase corrosion resistance. This is particularly evident in the fire truck market, where increasing demand for space has lead to more drawers to store ever increasing amounts of specialist kit. More drawers mean more weight and that's [...]
Thursday, 02 April 2015
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One of the markets that our engineers work within is camper van conversions. Whether it's a double bed , rock and roll seat, kitchen unit or rear storage drawer, they all need extracting for use or maintenance.This puts us in direct contact with the growing number of VW T5/6 enthusiasts who like to know they [...]
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
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Extreme duty drawer slides are what Sliding Systems do best. Here are DTS150 slides with a massive 150mm profile and an upper load capability of 2,500kgs on an extended pair.*These are part of a 64 pair consignment destined for access platforms in France. The customer looked at several alternative products before deciding on our milled [...]
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
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Sliding Systems are involved in many aerospace and military projects around the world, however the pinnacle of any engineer's career has to be working directly with NASA and design for the International Space Station. Meeting exact requirements with specific materials is something our engineers relish.*The final challenge had to go to our despatching dept who [...]
Wednesday, 04 March 2015
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Sliding
Systems were approached by a global market leader in emergency vehicle builds
with very exacting requirements, which they were unable to source locally. We
have the widest range of extreme duty slides available anywhere, so our
Technical Director Jon Lye saw this as a personal challenge -*''We
were tasked with providing ten drawer sets per vehicle using four different
types [...]
Thursday, 19 February 2015
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Sliding Systems are pleased to announce that the first ULTIO slide is available to buy online. Using high strength aluminium sections and all stainless steel components, this is a heavy duty slide designed for use in humid and wet conditions. Especially suited to fire truck lockers where routine wash down can corrode all steel slides. ''Weight [...]