Hydraulic Cylinders

Our service capabilities extend to the design, manufacture and repair of hydraulic cylinders, from smaller options all the way up to large bore cylinders that can weigh upward of four tonnes.  

The ability to deal with customer requirements around hydraulic cylinders comes from years of hands-on experience in applications, design and fault-finding from initial assembly all the way through to installation.  

Hydraulic cylinder enquiries come from all manner of different key industries including Aerospace, Construction & Mining, Transport, Agriculture and Automotive. Applications are far-reaching but have included bridges, slurry gates, factories, crushing units and excavators, to name a few. 

Whether it’s stripping cylinders down and replacing seal kits, or building from scratch, our team of engineers are fully capable of handling your requirements from our Engineering Solution Centres across the UK, Ireland and the Benelux. 

What is a hydraulic cylinder?

A hydraulic cylinder, sometimes referred to as a ram, linear actuator, or rotary actuator, is driven by hydraulic fluid to pull, push, lift, hold or lower, or rotate, within an application.

They can vary in size of manufacture, depending on the system requirements, with rod lengths up to 6 metres in length and bore sizes from 25mm to 600mm. 

There are various examples of hydraulic cylinders across most industry sectors.  Some examples of use are the from lifting or rotating a bridge, lifting arms on a digger or excavator, hydraulic presses, compactors, and virtually any application that requires movement.

What is the Flowtech solution for hydraulic cylinders?

From bespoke custom built cylinders to reverse engineered and bespoke hydraulic cylinders, Flowtech engineers are available to create various types of constructed cylinders: 

  • Bolted construction
  • Welded construction
  • Tie-rod construction

We build cylinders to customer requirements and work with selected manufacturers to ensure that quality assurance is guaranteed, with bolted cylinders conforming to ISO 6022 and tie rod cylinders conforming to ISO 6020/2.

Manufacturing new or bespoke designed hydraulic cylinders

In many instances, a customer will require a brand new cylinder to be manufactured from scratch as part of a new industrial project, which will be passed on to our Technical Design team inside an Engineering Solutions Centre (ESC).

Bespoke or custom-built cylinders are designed utilising the latest 3D CAD packages, machined utilising CNC machinery and then hand built, tested, and certified at our Engineering Solution Centres to suit specific needs of the end use and application.

The process flow may resemble the following:

  • Enquiry
  • Design
  • Machining
  • Assembly
  • Tested & Certified

Consideration is made in material choice and components to provide exceptional life and reliability from your new cylinders.

If, however, you have an existing cylinder and would like a duplicate/replacement but do not have drawings for manufacture, we can reverse engineer a solution to meet your needs. 

Our Engineering Solution Centres will strip down your existing cylinder and capture all the key dimensions to replicate a new cylinder to meet your fit, form and functional requirements.

Repairing existing hydraulic cylinders

Our Engineering Solution Centres can also repair faulty or broken hydraulic cylinders, where they can be properly serviced and returned to previous functionality, rather than going to the expense of manufacturing a replacement from scratch.

The Engineering Solutions Centre will strip down and inspect your cylinders. Following this, a report will be compiled of the necessary repairs and a quote will be sent out for approval. 

Therefore, the process flow may resemble the following:

  • Disassembly
  • Inspection
  • Diagnosis report compiled
  • Repair

Once the purchase order has been received your cylinder will be repaired to operate as new.

Would you like to find out more?

Our Engineering Solution Centres that will be able to help with Hydraulic Cylinder enquiries include the following sites:

Exeter

Call 01626 831400 or

Liverpool

Call 0151 6329585 or

General Enquiries

Call +44 (0) 33 000 22 223 or