Celebrating 30 years!

Gresham Power Electronics has a history of retaining members of staff for long periods of their working lives by providing a friendly and rewarding working environment.

Lois Shering

This is certainly true for Lois Shering, their Power Supply Department Administrator, who has now worked for the company for thirty years. Lois has grown up with the company and has got engaged, married and had a child who is now 18 while working there.

“Gresham has not only supported me over the last 30 years but has also greatly helped my daughter Nicole by being her main sponsor for her passion of ski racing” says Lois.

Lois’ daughter Nicole holds a number of British Ski Academy GBR Series indoor and outdoor championships and currently holds the top prize on the dry slope circuit of being the female “Zero” point racer.

Lois continues, “I have met and worked with many lovely people on my journey, some have come and gone while others are enjoying long service at Gresham like myself. The technology of business has certainly moved on, when I first started here commerce was carried out by telex, then fax and now by email. Power supply design and development has changed greatly over the years with constantly evolving technology and we strive to meet customer’s ongoing demands for quality, competitive prices, shorter lead-times and great after sales service.”

Jake Moir, Managing Director of Gresham Power Electronics, comments, “Lois has developed great working relationships with key customer accounts and suppliers over the many years she has been with us. This level of continuous support and her deep knowledge of our products and customers is appreciated by all.”

• Gresham Power offers industrial, medical, CompactPCI, rail, transportation, test and laboratory power solutions from world-class manufacturers. The present market leading and cost competitive open frame power supplies, modular configurable and encapsulated power supplies, programmable power supplies, electronic loads and DC:DC converters are being rapidly expanded by leveraging the access to products of their new Coolisys Power Solutions Group partners.

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Keeping Lavender smelling like roses!

As a global provider of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) training, examination and consultancy services, Lavender International* utilises a large number of test and inspection instruments. This equipment is frequently transported to overseas locations to support the company’s work in every region of the world, but on this occasion, equipment returning from Australia was held up in customs.

Lavender’s Andrew Waller called Ashtead Technology, seeking urgent assistance. “It came as a shock to discover that our equipment had been detained for reasons unspecified, so we were faced with an emergency. We were delighted when, in response to our phone call, they promised to deliver the eddy current set on the Monday morning – in time for the training course.

“Happily, Ashtead delivered on their promise, and the required equipment arrived on time and in perfect condition, so the course was able to proceed as planned. We were extremely grateful for Ashtead’s fast and efficient service, and will look to use their rental equipment on future courses.”

Following his emergency Friday afternoon call, an Olympus Nortec 600 Eddy Current Flaw Detector from Ashtead Technology was rushed to Sheffield (GB) to support a Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) training course that was due to take place the following week. The equipment arrived just in time, and the two week course – Level 2 Eddy Current Testing of Welds - was able to proceed for the 13 registered trainees.

Most of the course participants passed Lavender’s NDT training course and the results will be passed to BINDT so that those with the appropriate industrial experience can be awarded NDT certification.

Steve Drake, Ashtead Technology’s NDT Market Manager says: “This is a good example of the benefits of renting NDT equipment, because we are able to deliver the latest technology, ready for work and often at very short notice. This means that our customers do not need to over-stock with equipment, because they are able to call upon our services during periods of high or urgent demand.”

*Details of Lavender's NDT courses in Britain. 

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