Edward Ormerod & Co. Ltd. has extensive facilities to perform destructive testing on steel wire ropes in all constructions.

Test and inspection typically includes:
• Visual examination and reporting on the cone and wire distribution
• Visual examination and reporting on the lubrication within the rope
• Bend testing of the individual wires.
• Torsion testing of the individual wires.
• Tensile testing of the individual wires.
• Calculation of the aggregate breaking strength of the rope.

Visual examination of the cone
and wire distribution

Automatic bend testing of smaller wires

Tensile testing of the wires