Perry Slingsby Systems closing shop in USA

Anyone have any more details as to the whos, whats, and whys

Thanks Ron!

Slow sales???? Where??? Hmmmm…. doesn’t add up. Could it be cheaper labor?

Big mistake by Triton Group…….I guess the +$250 million that the Jupiter plant grossed in the last 3 years wasn’t enough to support the lavish spending of the UK-based Triton Group.
What’s missing here is that these clowns think they can replace the Jupiter team (120 very talented people) and build the Triton XLX in Kerbymoorside and achieve the quality vehicle. They are sadly mistaken. The Perry ROV was born years ago in Florida and continously improved over the years and is the goose that lays the golden egg for the Triton Group and has been paying the salaries of the UK branch for years!!

The best product on the market was made in Jupiter. Everybody knows this. Good Luck to you Triton Group. You have already lost customers as a result of this. Simply put, England can’t make what we make.

It’s too bad that the Triton Group management lacked the basic business sense after they took over the company from Technip. The first thing they did was to buy 8 companies and take on massive debt, not smart in this economy. This is a tragedy for a lot of families in S. Florida.

Sorry HelpMaBoab-not my intention to bash British workforce, just the daft decision making of Triton Group and their fiscal irresponsibility. The team at Kirbymoreside are some good chaps, it’s just that the work class ROV’s are a product of the Jupiter facility, all the vehicles that have come out of the UK so far have been all kitted up in Jupiter and sent for assembly in UK. They are going to have problems when they go at it all on there own, especially with the new XLX and the advanced control systems (just ask Clough about there 2 PSSL vehicles).
Yes ,they have a bigger portfolio, but nothing that makes money.

Oh well, guess I’ll go on the dole or flip burgers at Mickee Dees.

Just spotted this Topic and was surprised by the date, I was just over in Jupiter (US) and not long after in Kirbymoorside (UK) and they were still building in both. The Jupiter operation was reduced from when I was last there although most of the engineers were still there and some ROVs definitely were being built, (plenty were going together in UK and looked easily good enough for me).
It sounds like they have moved a lot over to their Houston operation so doubt it will be long before ROVs are coming out of there as well, if they aren’t already. Thats a pretty good set up, I was there a few years ago, they’ve got a decent size building with engineers, fitters, techs, etc, yes building stuff not just salesman.
Regarding Slingsbys, ever since I’ve known them they’ve been producing work class ROVs and good ones, always considered them the rolls royce but didnt churn them out like Perrys so weren’t as many out there, and obviously its not as warm during FATs, but the beers good.
Slingsbys had a good few modern CNC machines in their machine shop which has always been bigger than Perrys, good welding shop and their E-shop guys were beavering away wiring trays and J-boxes, didnt look like kits to me. Wonder where they got there kits from before joining with Perrys??? Anyway I thought Perrys were mainly kits.
Last year was the worst for the industry in a while, just sounds like hard but sensible planning to me, rather than risk everything going down the pan if things didnt pick up.
Are you still there Bill, have you moved to Houston? Any updates from within… if not I’m sure you’ll have a good time offshore

I first visited Slingsbys in Kirkbymoorside in 1985 to do a course on their TA9 manipulator.

Before they started on ROVs they used to build small planes and airship gondolas there, so they have a good engineering background. Some of the guys I met back then are STILL working there 🙂

Ray,

That’s good to hear that the grandfathers are still around…. That in itself speaks volumes!

You actually did a course for TA9’s????

I have worked with Perrys, Hydrovison (SMD), OII dinosaurs (yes included the Maxximum) and the Schilling UHD’s and I would recommend to anybody to quit buying anything else and go for the Schillings, the UHD’s are nice! customer service is great, those subs really perform! bye bye Perry! nice to see you!