Commander - Company Profile

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	Commander Controls Limited is a UK based company and was formed on 26th November 1993. On 1st November 1995, the businesses of two associate companies, World Wide Technical Marketing Limited, operating since 1990, and Crane Safety Products Limited, formed in 1992, were merged with Commander Controls Limited. On 26th September 1996, the reformed company relocated to a new purpose built development in order to centralise all design, development, production, sales and administration functions. The company specialises in the design, development and manufacture of electrical and electronic industrial control systems, eddy current brakes and closed loop speed control, infra-red and radio remote control and collision avoidance systems. The company is also involved in the development of a light rail vehicle (LRV) for city and residential area passenger transportation. Product applications include material handling plant such as overhead factory cranes, power station cranes, process cranes (including nuclear industry), tower cranes, dockside and container cranes, access equipment, airport baggage handling schemes, forestry/logging winches, vehicle recovery winches, and any other electrically powered equipment requiring controls for safety, convenience or economy reasons.

	All COMMANDER products are as a minimum designed and manufactured to ISO 9001-2000 and are justifiably marked. Other demanding standards such as DEFSTAN and the Nuclear Inspectorate are also used for specific client contracts. COMMANDER motor control equipment is entirely designed and built in house to required and exacting contract specific standards and requirements. In applications involving high integrity lifting operations both conventional hard wired logic and plc's can be used.

	COMMANDER remote control and collision avoidance systems are software driven which means a very high level of integrity and product security whilst at the same time minimises considerably the hardware required for signal processing and interface. The prime data communication mediums are infra-red, radio, ultrasonic and microwave. In the UK and overseas, COMMANDER carry out major turnkey material handling projects, which include both new and major mechanical and electrical refurbishments for a wide range of clients.

	COMMANDER products are shipped world wide to many customers in diverse industries in many countries. Equipment is supplied to the aerospace industry, military, steel industry, motor manufacturing, docks, engineering, foundries, forestry/logging, construction, power generation, etc., and for applications as diverse as 300 tonne steel plant ladle cranes to 150 tonne nuclear flask carriers to ship loaders to security access to potato picking machines to recovery vehicles!