Saving The Rugby World Cup with Thomas Lyte

Thomas Lyte are world renowned Goldsmiths and Silversmiths with recognition for designing, making and restoring silver and gold decor for Royal Households, Military and Private Residences.

They are also known in the world of sport for making many of the globes iconic pieces of silverware. They not only made the 2014 FA Cup, they are also the official Goldsmiths behind all restoration the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Ultrasonic cleaning is a critical process in Thomas Lyte’s manufacturing and restoration process so having a machine down could have been detrimental to production .

Workshop manager Alan spoke to our service centre to tell us his problem and within a day we had the machine at our repair centre and being looked at by engineers.

The problem was identified and we had spare parts in stock. We knew the urgency as Thomas Lyte had some big jobs to finish including the restoration of the Rugby World Cup.

Thomas Lyte were able to reinstall their Ultrasonic cleaner within their production with very little disruption to their workflow and the Rugby World Cup was saved.