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Process Projects Ltd – Customer Support by Abbott & Co.

PROCESS PROJECTS LTD (In Administration) http://www.processprojects.com We can assist in your enquiries for pressure vessels as built by Process Projects Limited.   Scope of supply Manufacture • Pressure Vessels • Pipework • Filter Vessels • Tanks • Fabrications • Skid Modules • Fabrications • Machining • Instrumentation Associated Manufacture • Machining • Instrumentation • Pressure […]

EN 286-3:1995 Air Braking Reservoirs for Trains

We design, and build air receivers to EN 286-3:1995  Air Braking Reservoirs for Rolling Stock . We also refurbish EN 286-3 Compressed Air Reservoirs for trains – This involves detailed inspection , shot blasting to SA2.5 to clean old paint off in and out and re-painting with specialised two pack paint systems such as  Axalta EP300 Railway Primer and Axalta […]

Great British Pressure Vessels

This week we have a few of these going out ! Large thermal stores #pressurevessels #british #manufacturing Built to PD5500 and only just fitting out of the door !

A Brief History of Steam – 150 Year Plans.

History PhD student required? Whilst we focus on our future & current capability to produce pressure vessels heat exchangers and air receivers for a variety of industries, it’s hard to ignore that we’ve got a bit of history behind us. In 2 years time we will have been trading for 150 years – and we […]

Call that Snow ?

This was INSIDE Abbotts pressure vessel factory IN 1978 when Snow was real snow ! Taken by one of our welders who is still welding for us today ! I would like to say conditions have much improved ..

Abbott Pressure Vessels on Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers.

Having built pressure vessels for the Navy for over 147 years we have been recognised by the MOD in their recent carrier launch publicity ! With our Lloyds Class 1 and Naval approvals our pressure vessels were used for  air receivers, diesel engine starting, diesl pumping and radar cooling etc. Here is a nice picture […]

New Rolls Anyone ?

No not the sort of Rolls you pull up outside Buckingham Palace in -we have bought Dennis a brand new set of bending rolls ! 4 roll double pinch, and 3 meters long they  are more precise, larger and faster which will improve our quality, speed, and capacity – rounder, thicker and longer ! – sounds […]

Darren’s Fame – and plating skills ..

Darren here is doing his utmost to look confident that he has correctly marked out this rather complicated flash vessel. This EN13445 pressure vessel extracts excess water from very high temperature steam (at a goodly pressure too). Since Darren’s excellent supporting role in our recent company video See http://www.air-receivers.co.uk – it will make you chuckle […]

Pressure Vessel with integral picnic table ?

Pressure vessels find themselves used in a wonderful mix of applications. The picture below is of a chilled water buffer vessel for an industrial cooling application  with a pump to be mounted on the plate (by our client) The opportunity however wasn’t missed by Terry our excellent maintenance engineer to take advantage of the picnic […]

SST Process Engineering Heat Exchangers from Abbotts

SST Process Engineering in  Grantham  – For over a year we have been working with the staff of SST Process Engineering with more than 70 years combined experience of making Heat Exchangers. Since then we have made a cracking job of a variety of Shell and Tube heat exchangers, Tube Bundle replacements, and heat exchanger repairs […]

Size isn’t everything !

These small pressure vessels may not be the biggest pressure vessels we have produced this week but at 18 litres should be more than enough to satisfy our customers needs  – this is because they are designed to ASME div 8 and CE Marked as PED compliant. They are to go Holmegaard in Denmark, so will […]

Tough Mudders for Charity

We are fund raising for Beaumond House Hospice any help would be appreciated. Abbotts is sponsoring a team (including our MD) to put themselves to the test on a 12 mile tough mudder assault course. Please donate at: https://www.justgiving.com/Henry-Price6/

Meanwhile, at Abbotts…

Henry is still away combating ferocious winds, torrential rain and broken bike chains, but back here at Abbotts work goes on as normal – here arrives our next job!