Morning all,

I am looking for some guidance. The company I work for has brought equipment from a company that has liquidated, which includes machinery that was built specifically for that company in house. My guess is that they were not planning on selling this machinery at the time it was built. 

I can't see a CE / UKCA mark on these machines (apart from on the motors). 

My question is, will we need to get a CE / UKCA affixed onto these machines now that we are the owners?

Any help will be appreciated!

Generally as already stated the answer is yes. although there are some exceptions. Refer to the various annexes to the Supply of Machinery Regs.

No matter that the machinery is self built, you are still considered to be placing the machine on the market.

Long gone are the days when you could knock something up in the factory maintenance workshop.

Yes it must be CE/UKCA marked and conform to the relevant standards, more specifically Type A and B standards and if it falls into the category of Type C, then that would be more specific for the machinery. Someone has mentioned certain annexes of the regs and for example this would include the likes of machinery for experiments.

The most important part is PUWER. Conduct a PUWER assessment on the machine and the installation after it complies with certain standards above.