News
December 2011. The Ruslyn Pack Reel tooling is almost complete and we expect production to commence
around mid January. This small reel has now been Codified by the Defence Department and has been given
the NATO Stock Number 8130-66-159-6431
We are accepting pre-production orders.
October 2011. We have received our first overseas order for the Ruslyn Pack Reel® from a Police Department in
Indiana USA.
This Police Department will be using the Pack Reel® in their SWAT Team for Hook & Line, Firing Cable, Det Cord
and Signals Cable.
Tool machining is on schedule and production of the Pack Reel® will commence within 3 weeks.
Another shipment of the Ruslyn Cordwheel® has just been delivered to the Australian Defence Department for distribution to Army, navy and Air Force where it is used for multiple purposes.
September 2011. Another export sale to Mechron Power Systems Canada.
Mechron Power Systems supplies the NATO Ruslyn Cordwheel 8130-66-153-3558 to their defense clients and are a very large international supplier of electrical equipment to industry and the military.
Mechron can be found at http://www.mechron.com/homepage.asp
Tooling for the Ruslyn Pack Reel AUS004754RPR-85 is progressing well and expected production is scheduled to commence by the end of October. There are many potential uses around the world waiting on this innovative mini hand held reeling device. Colours have been finalized with Army and will be a beige spool (8) with khaki (5) centre handle.
August 2011. Electrical Agencies in Tasmania have become the latest distributors of the Ruslyn Cordwheel and Ruslyn Pack Reel. Electrical Agencies will be supplying the Ruslyn Cordwheel and Ruslyn Pack Reel to Tasmanian Emergency Services, Energy Suppliers and Industry. We look forward to a rewarding association with this well respected company.
Trials of the Ruslyn Pack Reel have just been successfully completed by the Australian defence School of Signals. The School is sponsoring the NATO codification of this small reel which will consequently be put into service.
20 EOD Squadron out of Brisbane is using the Ruslyn Pack Reel in trials at Woomera South Australia. This little cable reel is proving to be a very useful piece of equipment for the soldier in the battlefield.
Ruslyn Pack Reel tooling production has commenced here in Sydney and will be completed within 6-8 weeks. Once completed and successfully tested, production will commence and stock distributed to all that have been waiting for this small cable reel. Enquiries have been received from USA, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Peru and Colombia.
July 2011. The Ruslyn Pack Reel is currently being trialed by Army EOD in Brisbane for use as mini EOD hook & line reels as well as a detonator cord small reel and firing cable mini reels. These small reels have just been returned by Army Combat Engineers who were using them in trials up North to evaluate usage as lightweight Pack Reels and their ability to be being attached to webbing.
July 2011. Two Ruslyn pack Reels have been given to the Army School of Signals in Victoria to evaluate their use as a small cable reel to run out short lengths of Don 10 (WD-1A/TT). The Ruslyn pack Reel has now been looked at as an additional piece of mini cable handling kit which will overcome many problems in the field. We are confident that this Australian made mini cable reel will eventually become a standard part of a soldiers kit.
July 2011. An Unsolicited Proposal of the Ruslyn pack Reel has been presented to Defence for evaluation by Army, Navy and Air Force. Results of the mini reel proposal will be known shortly.
June 2011. The Australian Army Combat Engineers have taken 2 prototype Ruslyn Pack Reels on excersize to evaluate functionality. This unique small and lightweight pack reel is used for handling Hook & Line, Detonator Cord, Firing cable and Don 10. The Ruslyn pack Reel is specifically designed to overcome certain problems being experienced by operational defence personnel in Army, Navy and Air Force.
June 2011. A large shipment has just been completed to the Australian Defence Department of the green/black Ruslyn Cordwheel hand held reel NSN 8130-66-153-3558
June 2011. Shipped a special production run of fluro green/black hand held Ruslyn Cordwheel to the MTi Group who will be supplying this reel to the mining industry for the handling of measuring tapes and temperature probes used in drilling operations. The fluro green/black Ruslyn Cordwheel is manufactured exclusively for the Mti Group.
March 2011. Australian Defence Suppliers News has just been released with an interesting article about the Ruslyn Pack Reel. Link to the article may be viewed at http://www.defencesuppliers.net.au/news/reel-it-in
February 2011. Export shipment to Arce Geofisicos in Peru of Ruslyn Cordwheels. Arce Geofisicos is a leading geophysical contracting and consulting firm with 49 years of experience. The company uses our hand held cable reels to deploy recover and store their many cables.
February 2011. Export to AngloGold in Bogata Colombia of a shipment of our hand held cable reels for use in mining exploration. The Ruslyn Cordwheel will be used for deployment of seismic cables during geophysics studies for future gold deposits
in Colombia. The Ruslyn Cordwheel were recommended by Arce Geofisicos in Peru who use our hand held cable reel in their geophysics industry.
We are currently developing a Facebook page for Ruslyn Holdings where we will be able to demonstrate the attributes of both the Ruslyn Cordwheel cable reel and the Ruslyn Pack Reel which is designed for use by dismounted soldiers.
January 2011 received an enquiry from FLIR International out of Boston USA. FLIR are a major supplier of thermal imaging equipment to defense and industry. A sample Ruslyn Cordwheel has been supplied to FLIR for cable reel evaluation.
December 2010 was very interesting as we met with Australian Army commands at Victoria Barracks Sydney where we were able to demonstrate our small cable reel. The Ruslyn Pack Reel was viewed with much interest by numerous commanders from various units as they are in need of a mini reel to handle hook & line, firing cable, detonator cord and WD-1A/TT (Don 10). They were excited that a small reel such as the Ruslyn Pack Reel could be made in Australia.
In November 2010 we attended the Land Warfare Conference where discussions were held with Australian and overseas defence suppliers regarding our small cable reel. We also met with a number of Australian army personnel and discussed minor changes to the Ruslyn Pack Reel. It was decided to incorporate 2 slots in the rear of this mini cable reel for webbing strap retention.
On September 19th we attended the Australian Industry and Defence Network (AIDN) anniversary dinner where we met an Australian army brigadier. Through this contact we were able to meet with a variety of army personnel to discuss the development of the Ruslyn Pack Reel. We were also able to demonstrate the mini cable reel to UK defence.
Ruslyn Holdings Pty Ltd has developed the Ruslyn Pack reel® which is a small hand held cable reel for use by dismounted infantry. Prototypes have been produced for demonstration to army. This mini reel meets all the requirements of army to handle 112m (367’) of 3.5mm Hook and Line low stretch high strength pull line. It will also handle 112m (367’) firing cable, 38m (125’) detonator cord, 150m (492’) WD-1A/TT (Don 10) communication cable as well as 21m (69’) of 8mm rope. This is an exciting development as no such specialised small cable reel is available to army anywhere in the world. The Ruslyn Pack reel® is a hand held ergonomic small cable reel which is extremely rugged and weighs under 500 grams. This mini cable reel has no metallic components. Ultimately we would like to supply the Ruslyn Pack reel to US army and marines as well as all NATO countries. Currently we are looking for a defence fleet manager to codify the Ruslyn Pack reel® with a NATO stock number. The part number for the Ruslyn Pack reel is AUS004754-RPR. This mini cable reel is intellectually property protected and will be manufactured in Australia using recyclable materials.
A recent request for quotation (RFQ) has been received from the United States Marine Corps (USMC) to supply the Ruslyn Cordwheel for cable handling use within MWSS-271 EOD.
Another company recently appointed as a distributor of the Ruslyn Cordwheel here in New South Wales Australia is the MTi Group.
MTi Group is a market leader in Industrial Supplies and Mining Consumables and supplies the Ruslyn Cordwheel to deploy retrieve and store a range of their measuring tapes and ropes. Within their two divisions, MTi Mining and MTi Industrial, there is an extensive range of products aimed at servicing the mining, oil & gas, transport, power generation and shipping industries amongst others. MTi Group is a wholly owned and operated Australian company with state offices in Queensland and New South Wales and representation in the USA with a registered office in Wyoming. MTi Mining specialise in Drill and Blast Consumables including: gas bags, blastbag plugs, air bags, blast hole liners, borehole plugs, blast hole stabilisers, explosive retainers, and other mining products.
ORC AB is the newly appointed distributor of the Ruslyn Cordwheel® in Sweden.
ORC supply the Ruslyn Cordwheel for the deployment, retrieval and storage of tethering ropes used with their pollution boom systems.
ORC AB is a renowned supplier to the world of incident response products and systems and recently completed extensive oil pollution work in the Gulf of Mexico.