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Morris Line Engineering is pleased to announce it will be hosting stand number D150 at the upcoming Railtex '13 exhibition. The event will take place at Earls Court 2, London between Tuesday 30th April and Thursday 02nd May 2013.
The Morris Line Engineering exhibition stand will focus on displaying the development of our equipment to meet specific customers' needs. If you are interested in discussing our latest products and innovations please visit us on stand D150 at the exhibition, where one of our engineers will be happy to assist you.
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J.W. & E. Morris Ltd., parent company of Morris Line Engineering, with great sadness announces the death of its Chairman, Mr. D.J. Kearle, at the age of 85 and after 67 years distinguished service.
Mr. Kearle joined the company in 1945, aged 18, and quietly caught the eye of its founder, Mr. J.W. Morris. Working in association with the then Managing Director, Mr. J.R. "Jack" Morris, he oversaw the principle development of the company in the 1950's and 60's at the National Steel Company of Wales sites in Port Talbot and Llanwern and overseas projects in India and New Zealand. During the mid 1960's he established the Low Voltage Manufacturing Division, and in the early 1970's was appointed Managing Director. Morris Line Engineering was established as the company's High Voltage Manufacturing Division in the mid 1970's. Throughout the 1980's and 1990's Mr. Kearle oversaw the company's diversification by organic growth and acquisition, including the establishment of the Mechanical Division and the Total Electrical Distributors Wholesaling Division. The Morris McLellan Group was formed in 2004 with the acquisition of McLellan & Partners Consulting Engineer with whom he had a long and fruitful relationship. "DJK"'s last service to the company was to chair the Morris McLellan Annual General Meeting on 4th December 2012. He died peacefully at home on Sunday 16th December.
While his business achievements were considerable, of even greater importance was the respect and affection he was held in by all. His lasting legacy will be the highest standards of business ethics which he wove into the fabric of the company.
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After many months' hard work the new Morris Line Engineering manufacturing facility in the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone (JAFZA) near Dubai has commenced production.
M.L.E. JAFZA will assemble high voltage disconnectors and switches to a range of electricity distribution, petrochemical and railway electrification companies across the Gulf Cooperation Council region.
Staff pictured outside our new premises (from left to right): P.C. Lingam (Supervisor), Steve Davies (Director of International Operations), Chandra Sekar, Gomathy Nayagam (Assembly Fitters), and Juan Xu (Office Manager).
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Morris Line Engineering is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the globally recognised environmental standard of ISO 14001: 2004.
Mark Askins, Works Manager, and the rest of the team at M.L.E. worked hard to create documentation and implement strict management procedures in order to comply with the standards required for this prestigious accreditation.
Company Director, Brian Jones, is delighted with this outcome and believes that it was essential that the Company embraced this challenge as an environmentally aware and responsible manufacturing organisation.
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There are now more ways of keeping up to date with what is happening at Morris Line Engineering.
M.L.E. has introduced an RSS feed for the Company News page. Please click the link at the top of the page and follow the instructions for your chosen News Reader to add us to your list of RSS feeds. Most will work simply by clicking the links.
You can also follow us on the Morris Line Engineering LinkedIn page. Just click the link at the top of the page to add us to your list of followed companies.
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Morris Line Engineering (M.L.E.), part of the Morris McLellan Group of companies, has secured a substantial contract with a major Bahraini oil and gas company.
The United Kingdom-based company, which works with big name clients worldwide, has been successful in their bid for the significant order for 11kV load break switches for electrical projects, marking the company's first major trade in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Established in 1976, M.L.E. employs skilled workers at their manufacturing facility, and is considered a market leader within the specialist high voltage switchgear industry. All products are designed and manufactured at M.L.E.'s headquarters in Bridgend.
The contract is a significant boost to the company and is a major achievement for the team. Obtaining the contract to supply high voltage equipment to Bahrain has been a landmark accomplishment in the continued growth and ambition of M.L.E. on the whole.
The Company's success has been built on continued expansion into new areas and the company prides itself on delivering, on time, long-lasting, quality products tailored to suit each individual client's exacting requirements, along with the high standard, full technical back-up and aftersales service expected by today's clients.
The dedication and commitment of the highly skilled team of local workers is the key to continued expansion into new markets worldwide.
Contracts such as this one will ensure that M.L.E. continue to provide a strong local presence in the area.
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Morris Line Engineering are delighted to promote Mr. Steve Davies to Director of International Operations. The knowledge Steve has gained in his over thirty years with the Company is invaluable. Steve will operate out of Dubai (Jebel Ali) from January 2012.
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In line with customers' requests, Morris Line Engineering have developed the new "RX2L" range of 12/15kV Load Break Switches, complete with silicone insulators. Although the design is based on our very popular “RX” range, which we have been manufacturing for almost 30 years and has been highly successful worldwide, we have now incorporated an arc chute, which is the latest type of load breaking device.
The new range is simple to install and maintain, saving valuable time and labour costs over the lifetime of the product. Also included, for independent operation, is a spring operated opening and closing mechanism which is available for equipment mounted in both horizontal or vertical configurations.
The full series of type tests to IEC62271-102 and IEC60265-1 have been successfully performed in the KEMA test laboratory in Prague during 2011:
- Short time withstand current tests at 25kA/3sec.
- Short circuit fault making tests at 7.5kA peak (dependent operation).
- Short circuit fault making tests at 25kA peak (independent operation).
- Load breaking tests at 12kV, 630A.
- Load break tests at 15kV, 400A.
- Dielectric tests.
- Temperature rise tests.
- Mechanical endurance tests (Class M1 - 2000 operations).
This is proving an exciting period for MLE with extreme interest in this latest cost effective design.
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Brian Jones joins the Board of Directors of J.W. Morris. Brian was formerly the Divisional Director of M.L.E., a post he had held from July 2005. He has been directly involved with the division for over 30 years.
Under Brian's leadership, our first class engineering, production and commercial team at M.L.E. will continue to provide sector leading quality and service in the design and manufacture of high voltage overhead line switches and disconnectors.
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During March 2010, our Technical Manager, Steve Davies, gave a presentation describing our new 25kV, 1250A Track Switch.
A video of the presentation can be viewed here:
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We have successfully completed the full range of 145kV tests including Induced Current Earth switching using composite insulators.
- Bus Transfer
- Radio Interference/Corona
- Earth Switch Short Time
- Main Switch Short Time
- Withstand Current
- Temperature Rise
- Dielectric
- Mechanical
- Composite Insulators - Inductive Test
Please contact Steve Davies if you would like any further information on this equipment.
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As a forward thinking company, we are always alert to opportunities to co-operate with companies overseas to expand our customer base and so increase our share of the world-wide market.
To this end we have, for many years, operated through officially appointed agents in many territories, particularly in the Middle East.
A particular product in which we are acknowledged as world-leaders is isolators for use in railway electrification projects. To satisfy the growing demand for such equipment in one of the world's largest growing economies, we have an agreement with a Chinese manufacturer who produces, under licence, for the Chinese Market.
As future opportunities present themselves, further arrangements for local manufacture may be concluded.
Our main manufacturing base will remain in the United Kingdom, from where all design, manufacturing and commercial decisions will be made.
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