Clydesdale's news blog

Every year Clydesdale puts together a cycling team and enters the Extra Mile Challenge raising money for selected charities.
This year the challenge is set in Brittany on the 21^st – 25^th September.

The team consisting of David Sample, Simon Raglione-Hall, John Webb and John Wells will start their journey in Chartres,
two nights at Rennes before ending the 500 mile cycle in Normandy at Caen.

The team raise money for BLISS and St Johns Hospice and where able to give the charities over £1100 last year.

BLISS Support premature and sick babies as well as their families

St John’s hospice is a palliative care hospice for cancer sufferers.

We wish all the teams involved lots of luck!

If you would like to donate to this worthy cause, our just giving page is:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/team-plf

The Clydesdale web shop is now open and taking orders on selected items / ranges. 

If you require any further information on any of our products before purchasing, please email sales@clydesdale.net or telephone +44 (0) 1234 855855.

The Clydesdale team had a great day at the EA Technology organised exhibition, CABLEx 2017.

The new addition the ‘Demo Den’ was a great success, we had several different demonstrations running throughout the day showcasing new equipment for the UK market as well as some of our core tools.

In terms of cable preparation, demos were given on preparing 33kV graphite coated cables as well as 11kV Triplex cable using the range of Alroc tools.

A non-explosive cable spiking and cutting demo was given using the Picoup 250 tool which is designed to provide a reliable single phase-to-earth fault should the user unfortunately spike a live cable.

Clydesdale also had a custom demonstration table made specifically for the event to show how the FC2310, de-energised cable identifier and phasing device works and how it can be employed in the field.

Our show booklet containing all the products on our stand and in the demo den is available online, please click here.

If you are looking for further information or have any questions on the products, please call 01234 855855 or email sales@clydesdale.net and one of our sales team will be happy to help.

We look forward to seeing you all at next year’s event.

We are all set up and ready for CABLEx 2017.

Come and visit us at our stands C01 and Demo Den DD06 to meet our team and find out more about our products.

Did you know it is a requirement in UK law that all new trailers, of any weight, must have either individual or low volume type approval before they are sold to the customer?

What does this mean:

• Winches and drum trailers are classed as special purpose vehicles and have needed testing since October 2014
• All trailers must have a unique 17 digit trailer identification number registered with the vehicle inspectorate.
• All trailers need to pass an inspection that they meet all the road requirements
• All trailers over 750kg need to have a reverse light and 13 pin electrics
• It is an offence to sell any new equipment that doesn't meet these requirements

Clydesdale Ltd are happy to announce that an online web shop will soon be launched on the website.


Official launch date to be confirmed.

Clydesdale would like to reassure all of its partners / distributors and end user customers that we will seek to minimise the impact of any of the ongoing changes to UK legislation and its standing within the European Union as far as we possibly can within the realms of our product design, manufacture and supply.

Over the coming months and years there are likely to be changes within the market that affect all UK businesses. Clydesdale commits to ensure that, to the best of our abilities, we shall:

* Keep price changes due to currency fluctuations to a minimum

* Keep our technical certifications maintained until there is a clear, alternative legislative structure in place

* Continually review the developing situation to ensure minimal effect upon our business or yours

* Communicate regularly and clearly when we are aware of changes that need to be made


If you would like to discuss anything related to this or any of the other content of the website, then please call +44 (0) 1234 855855 or email sales@clydesdale.net

For us it was a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate our products and was great to see so many people of all backgrounds and areas of expertise showing an interest in our range of products from Overhead Line equipment to our Arc Flash PPE.

Our Technical Manager, Simon Raglione-Hall, gave a presentation on the Correct use of Capacitive Voltage Detector on MV Overhead Lines, which was well received by the audience, details of the presentation is available on request.

The show was, in our opinion, a great success. The team here at Clydesdale Ltd look forward to seeing you all at CablEx next year…

Clydesdale have sponsored Josh Sapwell for several years, as he has worked his way up through the various age bands and competition levels.

Josh has recently been on winning form having taken the win at 3 UK tennis tournaments in succession.

We continue to wish Josh all the best.

Further details on Josh's progress can be found in the tennis diary on his facebook page HERE

Clydesdale recently gained certification to ISO14001.

Having ISO14001 allows us to demonstrate that we have:
Good control over the environmental impacts of our business
Plans in place to improve our environmental performance
Continually assess how we are performing with respect to our environmental goals.

This was certified as part of an integrated system along with our existing ISO9001 quality certification.