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May 19
Humber Galvanizing (part of the Wedge
Group) has completed a multi-millionpound
project to create what it claims is the
biggest galvanizing bath in Yorkshire.
The business has increased capacity by
approximately 50% due to a major expansion
that includes the installation of new tanks
and a substantial enlargement of its yard.
The new-look site, at Citadel Way, will be
officially opened by Karl Turner, MP for East
Hull, on May 17.
Humber Galvanizing General Manager
Richard Speake said: “This is a major
investment that will have a significant
impact on the business.
“It will increase both the number and size
of the jobs we’re able to do and that extra
capacity will also boost our turnover.
“It’s a project that will give us the
infrastructure we need to ensure we’re 'Fit
for the Future' and the kind of platform from
which we can grow even stronger.”
Expansion of the site, including the yard
extension completed six months before,
included major groundwork to extend an
existing pit for the new main bath, which
measures 7.5m-long, 1.2m-wide and
2.7m-deep.
Mr Speake added: “Our old bath wasn’t
always big enough for some of the work that
customers wanted and we’d have to send
projects to one of our sister plants within
the group.
“Now we have the size of bath that can
cope with much longer lengths of steel and
that will have fantastic implications for us
moving forward.
“We’ve been at this site for 22 years and
never up-scaled before so we’ve moved with
the times and it’s an historic moment for us.
It is also a commitment to the future of the
business.”
The plant has also invested in two new
‘triple acid’ baths and made a string of
changes in support of its commitment to
health and safety.
Multiplex and Severfield have announced
that they have successfully placed the last
steel beam at Twentytwo at 22 Bishopsgate –
the City of London’s tallest building.
It is the culmination of over two years
work on the 62-storey, 278m-tall project’s
superstructure, which began when the first
piece of steel was placed in January 2017.
The completed building contains 17,023t
of steelwork, made up of 14,593 individual
pieces of steel, more than 300,000 bolts and
approximately 170,000m2 of metal decking.
Multiplex Project Director Andrew
Feighery praised the teamwork of everyone
involved and commented that the installation
has gone “remarkably well, considering the
unique challenges of a such a tall building”
also pointing out that the amount of steel in
Twentytwo at 22 Bishopsgate is twice what
went into the Eiffel Tower.
Severfield Project Manager Kyle Fletcher
said: “It’s not all that often you are presented
with the opportunity to work on a project
of this scale, and it was a great, landmark
moment to erect the last piece of steelwork. A
project of this scale in the centre of London
possesses a variety of inherent and unique
challenges, which, due to the skillset and
experience of all involved, did not affect
our ability to deliver to programme with an
outstanding safety record.”
When complete, Twentytwo at 22
Bishopsgate will provide over 92,000m2 of
flexible, modern workspace including a gym,
indoor market, cycle storage hub, art gallery
and social spaces, while the fifty-seventh
floor will be home to the highest public
viewing platform in Western Europe.
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The £60M Sandwell Aquatics
Centre, which will host events
at the 2022 Commonwealth
Games in Birmingham has been
given the final go-ahead by local
councillors. The new centre, to
be built on Londonderry Playing
Fields in Smethwick, will be built
by Wates Construction and run
by Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT).
It is expected to be completed
by 2021.
Billington Holdings has
announced a record performance
for 2018. Revenue was up 5.2%
to a record £77.3M, compared
to £73.5M in 2017. Profit before
tax increased by 11.4% to £4.9M
up from £4.4M the previous
year. Billington Chief Executive
Officer Mark Smith said: “We are
delighted at the progress which
has been made across all our
Group companies during 2018
and this has helped Billington
deliver a record performance.”
Manchester City Council
has approved plans for two
warehouses of 9,500m2 and
12,800m2 at Icon Manchester
Airport, a growing global
logistics area. Icon Industrial - a
joint venture between Stoford
and TPG Real Estate - said
that the latest developments
will meet rising occupational
demand at the 45-acre buildto
suit logistics park, which has
outline planning consent for
circa 92,000m2.
Developer Mitsubishi Estate
London, construction manager
Lendlease and development
manager Stanhope have
started preliminary work on the
50-storey tower development
at 8 Bishopsgate in the City of
London. The 204m-structure will
feature 52,000m2 of prime office
space, retail units on the ground
floor and a public viewing gallery
at its summit. Construction work
on the steel-framed £300M
project is expected to complete
in late 2022. The tendering
process for the major steelwork
package is still ongoing.
Kloeckner Metals UK/Westok
has been awarded with two new
certificates; BS EN 3834-2:2005
as well as EN 1090-2, which
maintains their CE certification in
the European Union in the event
of a ‘No Deal Brexit’.
Steelwork complete for
City’s tallest tower
Ficep announces new welding partnership
Steel machinery equipment manufacturer
Ficep has announced an exclusive
partnership in the UK with Austrian
company Zeman Bauelemente
Produktionsgesellschaft to supply automated
welding equipment to steelwork contractors.
The new partnership includes a deal to
supply Zeman’s advanced automated plate
component sorting storage system - the
SPS. The system automatically picks fittings
produced from thermal plate processing
machinery and allows each part to be
accurately scanned by laser for size.
The system automatically recognises
the part identity, picks it up with a robot
and transfers it to a storage system, with up
to 40 bins depending on contract, job, or
processing requirements.
With the additional ability to allocate
bins to the required location or fabrication
bench within a factory and completely track
the process, Ficep says it is a system which
could transform plate processing operations
in steel service centres and steel fabrication
companies.
Ficep UK Managing Director Mark Jones
said: “Both our existing and new customers
now have access to an unrivalled range of
steel fabrication machines that will improve
their productivity, reduce costs and improve
quality, production capability and processes
in steel fabrication.
“The overall plan is to provide fully
automated factories for the future with our
technological expertise and innovation for
the steel industry.”
Ficep will be hosting a Zeman open house
from the 20th to 28th of May. For more
information contact: marketing@ficep.co.uk
Major expansion
delivers Yorkshire’s
largest galvanizing facility
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