Castell has appointed Paul Roberts as its new area sales manager for southern England. Paul has twenty years’ experience in the automation sector, working for large Japanese, American and Swiss organisations. He holds a Higher National Certificate in engineering and a National Vocational Qualification in engineering manufacture. “I am really looking forward to working at Castell,” said [...] [Read more]

Castell has launched a new control panel for its Salvo range of drive-away prevention products. Suitable for use with automatic and manual loading bay doors, Salvo Control Panel+ (SCP+) is easier both to use and install. Fast, safe access is an important issue in the loading bay environment. The Salvo system, as reported by existing users, [...] [Read more]

Entire Iso-Lok range now available to order online Castell Safety International Ltd has made its complete Iso-Lok range of lockout / tagout products available for purchase online. Customers can order padlocks, multi-clasps and accessories from a new website at http://porta.castell.com. This replaces the old website, which could be found at www.iso-lok.com. Aside from new locks, replacement padlocks [...] [Read more]

Entire Castell board now features qualified engineers Industrial safety specialist Castell Safety International Ltd has appointed Chris Webster as its new finance director. Unusually for a financial incumbent, Chris holds an engineering degree from Cambridge University in addition to his accountancy qualification. Chris joins Castell from Delice de France, where he spent five years as commercial manager [...] [Read more]

Industrial safety specialist Castell has developed a new Susie lock for its Salvo™ range of drive-away prevention products. The redesigned Salvo™ Susie features an ergonomic grip that enables the lock to be fitted to and removed from an articulated trailer’s emergency air line coupling more efficiently, especially in wet and cold conditions. This is in [...] [Read more]

Castell Safety International Ltd has appointed Ed Smith as its new area sales manager for central England. Ed joins Castell from industrial panel and partition systems manufacturer Troax UK, where he initially spent five years handling internal technical sales before being promoted to business development manager for the company’s automation and robotics division. Reflecting on his new [...] [Read more]

Castell Safety International Ltd has appointed Paul Marks as its new product development director. Castell has chosen to expand and strengthen the NPD team following a record year to April 2011. Paul joins Castell form SMAC Corporation, where he was director and general manager, Europe. He holds a first class degree in mechanical engineering and an [...] [Read more]

Leading food-to-go manufacturer Uniq Prepared Foods has virtually eliminated downtime from the bacon-slicing process at its facility in Northampton, thanks to a trapped key interlocking system from Castell. As part of its continuous improvement programme, Uniq replaced the electrical safety switches on its bacon slicer with a panel-mounted KSSE20 multi-key solenoid-controlled switch and four AI access [...] [Read more]

- Shanghai steel plant safeguarding electrostatic plating process - Baosteel, the largest steel manufacturer in China and the second largest in the world, is entrusting the safety of personnel at its Shanghai plant to trapped key interlocking systems from Castell. Many steel plants in China still rely on warning signs to remind employees of recommended operating procedures. [...] [Read more]

Castell, a provider of industrial safety components for over 90 years, has redesigned the electrical isolator to prevent component failure leading to malfunction. The KSD+ is a new trapped key interlock power isolator, suitable for 3-phase currents from 32 amps to 250 amps, which dramatically increases safety protection over conventional designs, preventing fail-to-danger. Designed to the [...] [Read more]