Managing Director Brendan Wymbs founded Wymbs Engineering 30 years ago from a small fabrication workshop in Stockport, north-west England, servicing and upgrading ‘worn out’ machinery in the bakery and confectionery industries.
Today, the company manufactures a range of pressurised, manifold depositing systems, as well as customised processing lines for the chilled foods sector, such as cream doughnuts and chocolate éclairs, to name a few.
Wymbs Engineering has had a long relationship with Ewellix, and the ball screw used in some of its older machines needed to be upgraded with something longer lasting and with a higher load capacity.
“We installed a machine that was depositing 756,000 dough drops every hour on a travelling band, and this ran at up to 50 cycles per minute. We had good results, but the life of the Z-axis ball screw was approximately eight to 10 months,” explained Brendan Wymbs.
“So, we set Ewellix a challenge! We needed to upgrade an existing design depositor to go one-third faster than the previous one.”
Read the full article in DPA's December 2024 issue