E&I Engineering Group was founded in 1986 by Philip O' Doherty. With over 30 years of experience and 1000 employees, they are the largest electrical switchgear manufacturer in the UK & Ireland. E+I Engineering's switchgear range provides a complete power distribution solution to its client.

The company is headquartered in Burnfoot, Co. Donegal, and comprises a 300,000 sq ft purpose-built facility housing both the switchgear and Powerbar production lines.

Powerbar is E+I Engineering's patented range of busbar trunking, designed to deliver power to electrical loads. An Electrostatic epoxy powder coating system is used to insulate E+I Engineering's busbar.

E+I Engineering has a certified quality management system that ensures the high quality of its products and services and continued compliance with industry standards. Regular independent testing of production and developmental parts is essential for quality and validation purposes. On occasion, production and developmental parts do not meet industrial requirements and require specialised independent analysis to locate faults.

To this end CREST has worked with E+I Engineering's Powerbar production team since 2004.

Assessment and validation of the metallic coating systems and application process are carried out in the CREST laboratories. Failure analysis is also performed in the event of production parts failing.

The CREST team use microscopy, spectroscopy, and other analytical techniques to assess failure sources. CREST then identifies where the fault arose (either in-house or in-use) allowing the production team at E+I Engineering to solve the issue.

Testimonial

"E+I Engineering's partnership with CREST has added a new dimension to the company, offering an independent source of expertise that protects and improves upon the quality of our metallic coating systems and application process. The high quality of analysis and validation services provided by CREST has truly strengthened our product offering, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and safety within our Powerbar range."

Gerard O'Hagan
Metal Coatings Manager