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Flagship Teupen Platform proves ideal for cleaning at height on new Yorkshire development
A 50 m reach Leo 50GTX tracked access platform, flagship of the
German manufactured 
Teupen range, has recently been used for high
level window cleaning duties on the £70M Victoria Mills development
at Shipley in West Yorkshire.
Newmason Properties is currently 4 1/2 years into a major project
to provide a total of 447 prestigious apartments, approximately
half of which are being created within Victorian mill buildings
dating back to 1874 and close to the Saltaire World Heritage
Site.
The Teupen platform, on hire from UK importer Ranger Equipment
of Chesterfield, was able to easily reach the highest windows
around the complex using its maximum working height of 50 m and
impressive horizontal outreach of up to 17 m.
The only alternative to hiring the machine would have been to
scaffold both structures on site at a cost in the region of £20,000
and would have taken several days to erect and dismantle with
all the associated noise and disturbance to residents.
According to Kristy Kinghorn, Newmason's operations manager: "Special
buildings like Victoria Mills require special machines and the
50GTX we spotted at the Great Yorkshire Show last year is an
amazing piece of kit and got the whole job done in just three
days."
Being mounted on a self-propelled, non-marking rubber tracked
undercarriage, the platform was able to move around the 5.5 acre
site using pedestrian walkways without causing damage to freshly
cobbled paths and be set-up to reach all necessary areas with
ease thanks to its narrow travel width of just 1.58 m. In addition,
its flexible outrigger system provided the necessary operating
stability, even when the available working space was at a premium.