S S White Technologies UK Limited is a designer and manufacturer of flexible drive shaft together with associated couplings and casings for industry. The company has a long history with an extensive past and present customer base.
Sectors serviced include; automotive, aerospace, farming, agricultural, food, defence, motor racing (F1), marine, water treatment, and other infrastructure as well as many other industries.
Applications include the remote control of valves, abattoir knife drives, failsafe systems in elevators, aircraft thrust reversers, automotive powered seats and tacho cables, brush cutters (strimmers) but also to solve power transmission problems simply and economically.
Approvals held include;
BS EN 9100:2003, AS 9100 rev B, ISO9001:2000.
Scope - ´Design, manufacture and test of flexible drive cables for utilisation in commercial industries, including aerospace applications.´
Cert no. FM 519113
S S White Technologies UK Limited dates back as a business in the UK to the late 1920´s when a factory was opened in Camden Town (London) primarily to supply the Ford Motor Company with speedometer cable. At this time the Company was part of the US owned S S White Dental Manufacturing Co. The versatility of flexible shafting gave it many other applications in the aerospace, defence, and general industrial fields and this lead to a rapid expansion resulting in the move, in 1961, into a purpose built factory in Bletchley Milton Keynes, employing at its height 170 + people. In 1968 S S White Dental was taken over by another American company, Pennsalt. At this time S S White Industrial was split off from the dental business and became part of the Equipment Division of Pennsalt, later to become Pennwalt. The company remained part of Pennwalt until the end of 1987 when Pennwalt´s rationalisation lead to a Management Buy Out to become S S White Industrial Limited. Over the years the automotive Speedometer and tachometer cables were almost entirely replaced with electronic devices. The increased sophistication of vehicle interiors lead to new openings of seat and steering wheel adjusters.
Since 2009 S S White Technologies UK Limited, is mainly targeted at industrial markets rather than automotive ones. It is targeted at applications engineering to solve mechanical rotary drive problems, which it does successfully in a vast range of applications and industry sectors.