We took on another batch on apprentices including Kevin who studies mechanical engineering for 16 weeks, following by one day a week at the Colchester Institute and four days training in the workshop.

2003 marked the beginnings of the EGS retrofit department.

Customer Transco had a system consisting of a series of UG-8s and UG-40s with basic speed control, which we replaced with modern speed control and power management including; four Woodward 2301D controls, two Woodward UG-40 Actuators, two UG8s with SPMA synchronizers and GPC31 power management controllers.

In order to push the growth of our business worldwide, we had no choice but to terminate our agency with Woodward and to operate independently until we became distributors for GE in 2006.

We were award a 7 year contract with the Ministry of Defence as sole overhaul service provider for Woodward and Regulateur Europa governors and control systems on all warships. This took us up to 2011 and was renewed.

We were asked by Brush Traction to take part in a number of improvement schemes to improve the reliability of several governors. During these schemes we combined expertise on fitting procedures in order to establish the most effective way to overhaul in order to optimise the reliability of the governor.

In 2005 we took on our latest apprentice Jason who also started an apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering .

By 2006 our retrofit department was fully up and running. We have since been upgrading governing equipment for some of the UK’s largest energy companies.

We developed our facilities and expertise to accommodate the overhaul of steam valves.