Case Studies
“Safety Above All” and on the roads with Hoist UK
Hoist UK have provided design assistance and manufacturing facilities to the global leader in roadside safety systems, for a revolutionary new product that has an innovative design and has already been nominated for three international traffic industry awards. The roadsid...
Hoist UK provides fast winch for electronic guidance system experiments
Hoist UK have supplied a leading UK air defence company with an electric rope winch and control system for experimental work which involve a controlled drop of a electronic sensor towards the ground to enable a set of readings to be taken before it is brought to a halt just above...
Keeping a Clean Room with Hoist UK
Hoist UK are able to provide specialist blondin cranes for use within clean room environments using Verlinde belt hoist technology with the hoist having seven patents granted against it. Normal cranes are fitted with chain hoists or wire rope hoists which require the lifting medium, in th...
Hoist UK fly Bollywood stars in India
Hoist UK have recently finished an installation of four travelling bridges in collaboration with flying effects specialists Kirby’s AFX, in the spectacular new theatre Kingdom of Dreams, New Delhi, India. Kirby’s Andy Sutton was approached by the Indian theatre company and ask...
Regent Street store shops for Hoist UK’s expertise
Hoist UK were contacted by CBL Projects Installations & Maintenance to provide a solution for a descrete lighting and banner rig utilising their pilewind winches and radio control system in a very high profile launch of an exciting new fashion outlet in Regent Street, London. Working ...
Hoist UK take Boyzone & X Factor “Over The Top”
Hoist UK have recently supplied a custom performer flying winch system to rigging specialists Over The Top for the recent Boyzone and X Factor tours. The winch was used during the tour to fly dancers above the stage, then used for the encore to fly all members of Boyzone to the “B&r...
Hoist UK helps out with particle acceleration experiments
Hoist UK have provided a series of lightweight 250kg, 500kg and 1000kg manual overhead cranes to a specialist company who manufactures shielded chambers for synchrotron’s, which are cyclic particle accelerators used for experimental purposes. The systems provi...
Royal Opera House sets the scene with Hoist UK
Hoist UK have supplied, installed and commissioned an overhead crane system for the Royal Opera House’s storage facility in South Wales. The facility is used by the Royal Opera House for storage, refurbishment and trial build of set...
Hoist UK on the Eiffel Tower
Hoist UK have supplied Verlinde SA in France, who are a leading manufacturer of lifting equipment, with a custom built aluminium jib crane for refurbishment work of the hydraulic systems, press cylinders and accumulator cylinders of the west elevator of the Eiffel Tower. The press and acc...
Hoist UK keeps the flag flying
Hoist UK has recently completed work on the flagpole of one of the country’s most famous royal residences and although this was not one of the largest jobs we have been involved with it is certainly one of the most unusual jobs we have been completed. During certain ceremonies and d...
Hoist UK “Do the Business” in the heart of London
Hoist UK were asked to provide a solution for the Chorus Group for the atrium lighting in the highly prestigious Thomas More Square Business Village on the edge of London’s famous “Square Mile”, which is owned and managed by Land Securites. The installation of a truss li...
RSC take Hoist UK variable speed BGV C1 chain hoists on Romeo and Juliet Tour
Hoist UK were approached by Eric Dixon head of Automation for the Royal Shakespeare Company after he had seen their variable speed chain hoist motion control system at the 2009 ABTT trade show. The hoists were required to raise and lower scenery safely, quickly, quietly and accurately dur...
Hanging artwork with Hoist UK
Manchester City Council commissioned Chrysalis Arts, an artist-led public art company, to provide the piece of unique artwork for the foyer of Saint Pauls Catholic High School in Wythenshawe. The artwork was produced using equipment from the schools old gymnasium and classroom’s in ...
“All the world’s a stage” with Hoist UK
Hoist UK have provided the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Scenic Workshops in Stratford upon Avon, with a system of lightweight aluminium cranes and monorail track. The systems provided are used in a fabrication facility, which constructs unique set pieces for forthcoming productions i...
Hoist UK is odds on favorite with Veterinary College
Hoist UK have supplied, installed and tested a hoist system for a veterinary college which will be used in their equine medical facility to move horses from their anaesthetic room into an operating theatre, and then out into the recovery room. The electric chain hoist pro...
Trains arrives on time with Hoist UK
Hoist UK have supplied, installed and commissioned a crane system in a production facility which manufactures and assembles components for trains. The system consists of a free standing steel structure containing 2 x 1000kg underslung cranes, which are fitted with dual sp...
Powered Theatre bridges for The New Belgrade Theatre
Hoist UK have successfully supplied and commissioned a theatre bridge installation at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry in their new fully flexible auditorium known as B2. Working for The ES Group who won the design and build contract to deliver the new theatre, Hoist UK supplied, installe...
Hoist UK give a high rise solution for legal team
Hoist UK have worked closely with bespoke architectural lighting design company to provide a truss mother grid from which the lighting company could safely and easily install the modern lighting arrangement into the recently renovated Riverside project in Dublin Ireland. The relatively st...
