Product category:
Hydraulics and Pneumatics
News Release from: Chronoflex
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 June 2003
On-site repair of hydraulic flexible
pipes
The number one repair network in France is setting up in England: this company has both a professional, innovative and proven technique to providing this efficient service, and seeks distributors
The number one network in France for on-site repair of hydraulic flexible pipes is setting up in England and is looking for a distributor Today, any company, whether in industry, agriculture, public works, equipment rental, transport or general handling of materials or merchandise, is subject to damage to flexible hydraulic pipes, which can bring work to a stop
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 9 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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You must act immediately to get the machines concerned working again.
To do this, getting a technician to come to the site is the quickest and most efficient solution.
Our response: an emergency service: ChronoFlex has a complete structure allowing it to repair each flexible pipe breakage within the shortest deadlines.
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The client calls a nation-wide number; calls are processed 7 days a week and 24 hours a day by an operator who immediately transfers the repair demand to the nearest technician, thanks to the national network in place.
The technician gives notice of when he will be there and arrives on the site with his workshop vehicle.
He removes the defective pipe, produces the same model (cutting, stripping, assembly of skirts and connectors, crimping) and reassembles.
Levels are checked and the machine is tested in the presence of the work supervisor.
A service report is made using the onboard computer system.
The principal figures for France are: average length of time for arrival on site - 36 minutes.
Average length of repair time - 92 minutes.
Average cost of service - 230 Euros.
Right now, ChronoFlex is looking for a distributor in order to set up in England.
The ChronoFlex experience is that after 8 years of activity and record growth, the company now has 130 service vehicles throughout France, 7500 clients, 165 collaborators, and a turnover of 10,000,000 Euro.
ChronoFlex has already developed a distributor network in Martinique, which already has two maintenance vehicles.
In Guadeloupe, ChronoFlex will inaugurate the launch of a first truck in mid-2003.
Following this success, the company is looking to transfer its know-how and all of its technique to a distributor in order to respond to this type of demand in Spain.
The local distributor will be able to take advantage of: the optimum in technical equipment, each vehicle is equipped with 600 bit references, 500m of piping, a cutter-stripper, a compressor, a generator and a 1.25 inch capacity crimper.
High-performance computer equipment is supplied, allowing detailed delivery notes to be created at the end of the repair, top-level training on the overall organisation of the service, and the supply of parts from the number one distributor in Europe.
ChronoFlex has always stood out through its original communication style.
Several innovative support techniques are used: publicity leaflets are in unusual formats, theme stands are erected at professional trade fairs (including a friendly bar with fast food available, or an imitation pacific island hut with a sand bed and flower necklaces), plus active direct marketing - and above all a very particular yearly calendar.
Yes, the number one hydraulic pipe repair network in France has bared all.
The ChronoFlex team has shown it has nothing to hide, now that it has exposed itself in its natural splendour.
For a few years now, it has been customary for this medium-sized company from the Nantes region to offer its clients, mostly male, a calendar of young naked women.
The 170 members of the team throughout France have been challenged many times to offer up their own silhouettes to the workshop walls.
It didn't take long before 22 male and female ChronoFlex collaborators took up the challenge, and the result is there to be seen, in sixteen high-quality, serious or funny black and white photos, one per month.
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