发展历程
公司由 Frank Sheppee 上校于1907年创立,最初生产制造包括蒸汽驱动牵引发动机、摩托车和循环辅助设备,以及真空吸尘器和洗衣机。直到20世纪20年代,公司才开始专注于玻璃容器行业的设备开发。并扩展到快速玻璃成型机以及器皿处理设备的开发。
凭借其在输送机、退火炉装载机和驱动系统领域的专业知识和创新精神,公司现在处于玻璃设备解决方案的最前沿,在全球玻璃行业享有盛名。
今天,玻璃生产速度超过每分钟10,00瓶,对创新性和可靠性的重视程度越来越高。Sheppee 与各公司密切合作,提供具有高性价比的解决方案,迎接当前的生产挑战。
为提供这些解决方案,Sheppee 拥有完整的包括数控机床,CAD 设计的机械加工设备,和一支技术精湛的电子和机械工程师团队。
Sheppee 国际有限公司成立于1993年4月,传承由原 Sheppee 家族公司创立的创新工程传统。
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滚动历史超过100年的Sheppee历史。
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1902
Col. Sheppee opened the factory at James Street and started Sheppee Motor Company
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1905
Steam powered Charabanc
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1907
Sheppee Motor Co. stand at the Olympia
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Cabriolet Col. Sheppee used as his personal vehicle
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The first work's trip
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First lorry sold was to Moore and Sharp of Ovenden, Halifax.
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1908
Sheppee made snow chains which were later used by the British Army in the desert!
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1917
Sheppee stopped producing vehicles and concentrated on the machining and engineering of spare parts for various industries including Glass vessel manufacturing.
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1923
Avenues of manufacturing included a motorised bike known as a Cykelaid....
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....and an electric washing machine with Ewbank's of Accrington
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1926
The Rankin Automatic Glass Feeder made for John Lamb and Co. of Castleford
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The Rankin Automatic Glass Feeder made for John Lamb and Co. of Castleford
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1930
Staff picture including Sam Jowitt (left in suit) who had risen through the ranks and became shareholder and Mangaing Director
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1939
Rotery Glass forming machine at Redfern
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Six section I.S. Machine with Mechanical timing
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1948
Mechanical Lehr Loader
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1950
New product: STK-9004 Transfer
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1963
Full lehr loader set up including Lehr Loader unit, Lehr front unit, the conveyor end unit and interchangable transfer unit
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Mechanical stacker at Mina Glass, Iran
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1978
New product: Speedliner MK4 Lehr Loader
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Drawing office
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The workshop at James Street
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1982
New product: STK-9031 Radial Transfer
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New product: T3000 Transfer unit
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1986
New product: STK-9284 Adjustable Transfer Drive Gearbox at Stolzle
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1992
Receivers were called in...
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...and all employees effectivly lost their jobs…..
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…but a French bottle plant Saverglass agreed to continue a deal which allowed some stability and kept Sheppee Engineering trading.
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John Pratt Chairman
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1993
The management bought out the company...
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…and moved to new premises near Elvington.
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Sheppee International was born and focus was put on ware handling technology and solutions for the glass container industry
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Jeff Yoward Managing Director
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1994
New product: PRO-5001 - shown at Rockware, UK
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New product: STK/9400 Pushbar - shown at BA Sierakow, Poland
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1997
New product: CCA/1100, later became the CCA/1200 - shown at Produvisa, Venezuela
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1998
By now 80% of production is being sent overseas
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1999
New product: SWT Transfer- shown in training centre
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New product: FT7 Transfer - shown at Shandong Haupeng, China
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New product: HST Transfer - shown in production
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2001
New product: Independent Transfer Drive
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2002
New product: MRS-9000 - shown with CCA at National Glass, Egypt
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2003
New product: AWT Transfer - shown at Wadeville, S. Africa
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10 year anniversary of Sheppee International Limited
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2004
New product: AWTS Transfer - shown at HNG Badadurgargh, India
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New product: Triflex - shown at Fevisa, Mexico
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New product: Parallel Transfer - shown at AGI Glasspac, India
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2006
New product: VFT-1000 Transfer
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2007
In it's Centerary year Sheppee won the York Press Business Awards for International Trade
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2008
Due to the retirments of John Pratt and Jeff Yoward a new management team took over headed by Elliott Seymour
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2009 Hit by recession a small number of redundencies were made
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2010
New product: T2 - shown at OI Danville, USA
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The Training and Development Centre is used to test different set up's and for training engineers away from the factory floor.
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2013
Sheppee were proud to receive the Queens Award for International Trade
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They also won Business of the Year at York Business Awards
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2015
Sheppee was acquired by Groupe Rondot
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2016
Sales Team at Glasstec
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New product: ITS developed and introduced at Glasstec 2016
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Rondot Groupe merged with IS Engineering and RISE Groupe was created
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New product: TriflexS
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New Product: SpeedlinerS - shown at Glasstec 2018