So, this was the problem put to Harlyn Solutions by a client building a hydropower system near Birkenhead - everything was ready to go, but there was a small but significant challenge.
Hydropower is renewable, clean energy that would help the community utilise its own resources to sustainably create power. It was a fantastic project – but the problem was clear. The source of the energy was a canal – without any clear access.
The geography just wasn’t cooperating. They needed a crane to complete the project – but how to get it there? There was no clear way at all to access the site.
Except, there was, of course. The crane had to arrive by barge – on the canal itself!
Suddenly the biggest obstacle was the solution and Harlyn Solution’s lateral thinking was solving another client’s problem.
And that’s Harlyn Solutions in a nutshell – an engineering-led transporting company specialising in moving complex and unique cargo from point of origin to final destination – by whatever creative means necessary.
As Harlyn, based in Blyth Northumberland, likes to say: “You make incredible, we move incredible”.
And sometimes that means finding solutions which meet the needs of more than one client on the same project.
Like the time when Harlyn successfully won bids to test, weigh and supervise the delivery of Swordfish, a purpose-built cable burial tool used by wind farms.
Because Harlyn clients are incredible, more often than not, they work on vast, wonderous, inspirational scales. This means the machines they use are big and powerful, and handling them requires intricate planning, sharp thinking, and a delicate touch.
Harlyn designed a unique method to test the trencher’s cutting tool on land. Using two containers as a frame, the trencher was able to be lifted on top allowing the cutting tool ample space to be tested thoroughly.
Then, Harlyn’s turnkey solutions and efficiency ensured that it could confidently source and select a port crane, rather than hiring an external crane at a hefty cost and incurring further delays in the process.
Managing Director Harlyn Solutions, Hamish Adamson said: “Of course, communication is always the glue that makes everything work. When you’re working for three separate clients, the challenges are tripled, but so is the need for communication.
” We pride ourselves on turnkey solutions but to make that work we know we must always prioritise being supportive throughout the project. Clear, simple, concise solutions are best – not least because they are the most cost-effective for the client – and are easiest to explain, and achieve buy-in, whether that’s for one client or three.”
For Harlyn good solutions and good communications also mean there are no surprises mid-transport, they will find the riskmitigating solutions, and you will have a single point of contact with an engineer committed to your project’s success.