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Bristol – Cleaning up

MAKING WAKES: Whirlpool’s Maintenance Manager, Matthew Wyatt; and Pirtek Bristol Sales Manager, Jason Greenwood

Explaining what Whirlpool makes at the Yate factory, Maintenance Manager Matthew Wyatt says, “We have multiple hydraulic machines running here, including drum manufacture lines, which are cutting, forming and seaming the drums.

the front, side and rear panels for the products. There are folding machines and a few things like that but most of it is drum, side and rear panel manufacture. “As with any factory now, there’s lots of componentry brought in but all the steelwork is manufactured on site, so we are manufacturing all of the primary

Since February 2018, Pirtek Bristol has been working at Whirlpool’s tumble dryer factory in Yate to improve the efficiency of its hydraulic systems through data-led preventative maintenance.

“There are four 600-tonne hydraulic multi-stage forming presses creating

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