Strategic Engineering Services and Product Support
UK Based with 47 Years of Military Recovery History
EKA are a UK engineering company specialising in military vehicle recovery and load-handling systems based in Northamptonshire. Founded in 1978, we design and integrate chassis-mounted recovery equipment, winches, and support systems for defence and civil sectors. EKA also offers 3D scanning, reverse engineering, post design services, and CAD design.
Best known for supplying recovery vehicles to the UK Ministry of Defence, EKA provides integrated logistics support, including spares and lifecycle management, delivering customised solutions for demanding operational environments across defence and related industries.
Our Sectors
Defence
The military and defense sector is constantly introducing new, innovative ideas to improve the performance and safety of its equipment and vehicles. 3D scanning can offer an accurate, cost-effective solution for testing and prototyping these modifications and innovative equipment.
Automotive & Motorsport
The automotive industry can benefit greatly from the detailed scans that our 3D scanning & printing services provide. Whether you are looking to remanufacture a legacy part that is no longer in production or make modifications to your vehicle, our 3D scanning services can help.
Maritime
Our 3D scanning services can support the Maritime sector by being able to 3D scan pipework, engines and exteriors. This will provide a cost-effective solution for product testing and prototyping.
Recent Articles
Delivering the pulling power behind tomorrow’s heavy equipment transporters
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has signalled its intent to modernise the British Army’s heavy equipment transporter (HET) capability. This move marks a pivotal moment for the defence supply chain. HET provides a critical function, delivering heavy armoured vehicles like the Challenger 2 MBT swiftly and safely, without adding undue mileage or strain to their drivetrains.
Strengthening ties with REME: A team visit to MOD Lyneham
At the end of May, a group of EKA staff visited MOD Lyneham for a day hosted by the Recovery Training Wing and the REME Museum. REME - the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - is the British Army corps responsible for keeping equipment in fighting order and includes the highly skilled recovery mechanics who operate many of the platforms EKA supports.
SuperCompact for the UK:
Delivering Support Vehicle
(Recovery)
Perhaps EKA Limited’s most significant contract of recent years is the successful delivery of 288 recovery vehicles to UK MoD on time and on budget.
The Prime contractor for the Support Vehicle Programme, MAN Truck & Bus UK Limited, chose EKA Limited to deliver the recovery vehicle element of the programme after EKA’s extensive product development and technology demonstration investment during the late 1990’s
and early 2000’s.
Culminating in the SuperCompact recovery top hamper, the Support Vehicle (Recovery), or SV(R) as it is commonly known, delivers suspend tow, rigid tow, lifting, recovery winching and self recovery capability to the British Army’s wheeled fleet.
Lightweight: A High
Mobility, Agile, Intimate
Recovery System
Operations and deployments over recent years have allowed EKA Limited to gain deeper understanding of the detailed and nuanced challenges faced by British forces. This includes the developing requirement to support light and medium weight wheeled vehicles in line with the existing repair and recovery philosophy, while utilising smaller, lighter, higher mobility assets.
The EKA Lightweight recovery system has been designed and developed over the last five years to answer this complex requirement.
