Spooner’s impressive Test and R&D Facility can support you in testing new equipment, processes and developing ideas, and it’s available to hire!

You can ensure your new product or existing process gives the optimum results in terms of efficiency, throughput and product quality before making a significant investment in new equipment.

Since 1932, Spooner Industries has led the way in forced air convection technology and continues to invest in the future of research and technology that can make a difference in so many diverse sectors. As a world leader in forced convection technology, Spooner design, engineer and manufacture industrial solutions for a diverse range of metal processing applications where uniform heat transfer and rapid cooling is required with even pressure distribution. Spooner ovens and dryers have been used across the metal processing industry for over 70 years because of their reliable and superior strip handling performance. 

Spooner’s test and development centre is based at Spooner’s headquarters in Ilkley, West Yorkshire and is available for both new and existing customers to hire. Whilst working in the Test Centre, customers are assured of confidentiality throughout, and Spooner’s highly skilled and experienced engineers are on hand to help.

A comprehensive and versatile range of equipment is available, allowing customers to reproduce hand sample material to help calculate curing times for paints and lacquers, as well as undertaking flotation tests to help customers develop new metal products.

With steel and aluminium sheet we can offer static flotation tests and occasionally specially built test rigs.

Spooner’s Test Centre also features various hand sample machines which can be used for the in-depth study of heating, drying, curing and cooling of a wide variety of metal substrates. These pilot machines are extremely versatile and can give invaluable insight into many production processes. Spooner uses these machines extensively for development purposes and the evaluation and characterisation of the process you require.

If you want to find out more about our Metal Strip Processing Equipment or Heat Recovery Systems, get in touch here or call +44 (0)1943 609 505.

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