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At our West Bromwich headquarters, we have a dedicated cold temperature testing facility. This enables the engineers to put our products through its paces in sub-zero temperatures, ensuring maximum reliability.

Sakhalin Island Air Start 2

Two CAT 3608 emergency generator sets located on a jetty required separate compressed air secondary starting systems.

Sakhalin Island Air Start 1

Environmental operating conditions with extreme temperature ranges of –36°C to +35°C were a major consideration in the selection of appropriate materials and components.

Sakhalin Island Hydraulic 1

The hydraulic start system was designed for primary starting of a CAT 3516HD emergency power generator located on an offshore platform.

Sakhalin Island Hydraulic 2

This hydraulic solution was designed as a secondary start unit for a CAT 3512 engine installed at the Russian mainland export terminal.

Ice Challenger

Ice Challenger ‘Snowbird 6’, was an amphibious vehicle designed and built by Steve Brooks with the aim of setting a new world record by crossing them frozen wastes of the Bering Strait. The vehicle was powered by a 6-cylinder diesel engine, which incorporated an IPU hydraulic starting system. IPU Starting designed the system so that the team could start the engine at -40ºC and if for any reason the first attempt to start failed, the system could be manually recharged for further start attempts. Previous attempts by Ice Challenger to cross the Strait had been hampered by the use of conventional battery starting, which were totally unsuitable for immersion in seawater and the sub zero…