Case Studies

Coltraco Limited prides itself on conducting all of our relations professionally and with integrity. As an example of how we work, please find below some brief examples:

Ship Management Company evaluates the benefits of the Portascanner II

First contact was made on one of Coltraco’s numerous foreign trips to visit our existing and future customers. From here we introduced the Portascanner II with all of the strengths that in can offer to an operator. Confidence was gained in both the company and the equipment by the customer until the decision was taken to trial some of the equipment onboard the vessels in their real environment. 2 units were subsequently purchased and placed in use within the fleet. After a 3 month trial period, the Scanner proved that it offers the crew a more accurate, quick and efficient method of checking the Hatch cover Watertight Integrity than alternative methods such as Hose or Chalk testing. Over the next few months the rest of the fleet was equipped with a unit per Bulk Carrier and to this day, the units are in use and working well, providing the vessel operators and owners with confidence that there will be no problems with water damage claims.

Nuclear Power Station requires specialist monitoring equipment.

Coltraco Limited was contacted by on of the UK’s leading provider of Nuclear Power. Their problem, a specialist monitoring system was required and no such equipment existed in the market place. Our in house Design team evaluated the requirement and the specifications for such equipment, and in conjunction with the customer, we began to design the equipment and application to fit their requirements. As specialists in Ultrasonic’s, we were able to develop a unit to retrofit onto their existing tank infrastructure which was in turn linked to an alarm, alerting the on duty personnel if the tank content ever fell below a safe level. To this day the equipment is still in use with no defects, replacement or breakages entailed. Indeed this programme has been so successful that a second batch is now being ordered.

Fire Servicing Company equips multiple locations with Portalevel

A well-known Fire Servicing company in the USA recently enquired for our Portalevel, Ultrasonic Liquid Level Indicator having been recommended our equipment by an associated company. Their interest in the equipment was to see if Ultrasonic Liquid Level Indication was a viable, accurate and cost effective alternative to testing cylinders by weighing. Two units were purchased for an extensive trial and the Portalevel was put into operation from their Head Office for a period of 6 months with 2 of their Engineers trained by Coltraco free of charge.

After the trial period, the results were clear. The Portalevel had successfully reduced the time, manpower and cost that the company had to commit in order to carry out a survey of a customers Fire Suppression systems. Smaller teams had to be sent in order to carry out testing with testing only taking around 25% of the time when compared to the methods they were using previously. These cost benefits they were able to pass onto their customers in offering more attractive tender propositions and now the Portalevel is in use in every one of their 14 locations.