The press was designed to customer specification for the manufacturer of heat exchanger baskets. It is used to hold a basket full of corrugated, enameled sheets, under compression, whilst the top plate is welded to the basket. The baskets are then incorporated into large diameter frames to produce rotary regenerative heat exchangers. These are primarily used in the power generation industry.

The operator interface is a Proface colour touch screen linked to a Mitsubishi PLC. The Proface screen includes an ethernet port to allow the acquisition of data to be transferred easily across the end users network. The PLC controls the operation of the press, which uses proportional hydraulics to control the speed and clamping pressure of the compression cylinder. A linear transducer embedded within the rod of the cylinder allows the operator to set the stroke of the cylinder for each particular basket. Recipes can be created from the HMI allowing the stroke and clamping pressure to be set. Two pressure transducers have been fitted to both sides of the cylinder rod to allow an accurate resultant clamping pressure to be calculated.