Sales are soaring for the Pratt Burnerd low cost replacement chuck, which was launched last Spring. Designed and developed to provide a cheaper alternative to imported power chucks, it is an equivalent to commonly-used Japanese chucks and is available in sizes ranging from 165mm-630mm.

A spokesperson for Pratt Burnerd said “Even we have been surprised by the popularity of the new low-cost replacement chuck. We launched it because we had been asked for it by some of our customers but we expected demand to be relatively low. Sales have increased rapidly since its launch, I believe because companies need to minimise part-cost in every way they can and feel reassured buying from a reputable and well established British manufacturer. Naturally, although the low cost replacement chuck is priced to meet a specific market demand, it complies with all our normal high standards of quality, accuracy, reliability and longevity. As with all our chucks, it is available from us ex-stock delivery”.

As an established UK manufacturer workholding systems, manufacturing a comprehensive range of scroll chucks, independent chucks, and now large oil industry chucks up to 2m diameter, Pratt Burnerd International has a recognised heritage of developing innovative, productive chucks which are compliant with the highest quality standards. The preferred supplier to many OEMs/OEIs, it has a profound experience of difficult applications and a proven track record world-wide. Based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the company maintains a substantial stock-holding of all standard chucks and has a fully computerised stock holding/order/dispatch system to ensure a prompt response whatever a customer requires. The comprehensive range of productive chucks, based on ingenious, practical designs is manufactured at its 5000sq m manufacturing facility, where it also manufacturers the proven range of Crawford Collets. It has customers in a wide variety of industries including automotive, motor sport and aerospace as well as general engineering.