November 2019 newsletter
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New trucks with improved safety features delivered to Joseph Ash Walsall
As health and safety is very important to Joseph Ash Galvanizing, we’re pleased to announce the recent delivery of two new trucks at Joseph Ash Walsall. The trucks – provided by Scania – have new integrated CCTV cameras and audio. This helps with improved load security, cyclist safety and real time monitoring. Our drivers have been enjoying the new driving experience!
Welcome to the latest Joseph Ash Galvanizing newsletter. Hot off the press today!
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As health and safety are of paramount importance at Joseph Ash Galvanizing and Premier Galvanizing, we want our plants to be safe for all drivers who drop off and collect loads. With this in mind, we recently produced ‘Safe deliveries’ posters for our customers.
The poster reminds all drivers who enter/leave our plants to ensure their goods and materials are loaded safely and correctly on their trucks. It has lots of useful tips and advice on how to load and unload correctly.
The posters are being printed and we aim to post hard copies to customers before Christmas. If you’d like to download an electronic copy so that you can read the safety advice today click here, or call your usual contact number to request a poster.
It’s a wrap! UK Construction Week is over for another year, and what a week it was!
UK Construction Week takes place at the NEC, in Birmingham, every year and Joseph Ash Galvanizing has exhibited there for the last four years. As the largest construction trade event in the UK, which unites over 650 exhibitors with an audience of over 35,000 trade visitors, it’s always a pleasure to attend.
We were part of the show again this year, and we very much enjoyed the event. It was great to meet so many people – delegates and other exhibitors – and if you were there and stopped by our stand, we thank you! It was great to meet you.
It was also great to share some of our stand space this year with our colleagues from:
Welcome to the latest Joseph Ash Galvanizing newsletter. Hot off the press today!
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With a potential Brexit just around the corner, a traffic-management plan to minimise disruption for motorway travellers and Cross-Channel lorries may soon get reactivated. The plan – called Operation Brock – is a set of measures between junctions 8 and 9 of the M20 that will enable the motorway to stay open in case Brexit causes chaos to services across the English Channel and Kent.
Operation Brock – a replacement to Operation Stack from 2008 – includes 20 miles of steel that creates separate lanes on one side of the motorway for lorries to queue for the Channel Crossing, as well as a contraflow on the London-bound side of the motorway so that other vehicles needing to travel to Kent, do not get caught in the disruption.
The steel is made up of Vehicle Restraint Systems (barriers), transitions and end terminals and they were fabricated by Hill and Smith Ltd (part of Hill and Smith Holdings, Joseph Ash Galvanizing’s parent company).
Joseph Ash Chesterfield hot dip galvanized the steel – 100 tonnes worth – to protect it from the elements, i.e. wind, rain etc which would otherwise lead to rust and erosion.
The barriers were originally put in place in March 2019 in preparation for the 29 March Brexit deadline but were deactivated after a stay of leave was negotiated with Brussels. With the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday on the illegal prorogation of Parliament, we’re not sure what the future holds for Brexit, but the barriers are in place should Operation Brock get activated again.
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For information on the design and fabrication of all types of steel restraint barriers and infrastructure products, contact Hill and Smith.
Joseph Ash Galvanizing is also the first port of call for all types of steel protection: galvanizing, shot blasting, powder coating and duplex coatings.
For updates on Operation Brock, visit the Highways England website.
Two Joseph Ash Galvanizing employees have recently completed gruelling sporting activities to not only push themselves to the limit and feel a sense of great achievement, but also to raise much needed funds for charity.
Mick Bonnar (left photo), Transport Manager from Joseph Ash Bridgend took part in the Prudential Ride London event – the largest annual cycling fundraiser managed by the London and Surrey Cycling Partnership (LSCP).
The event has been running since 2013 and cyclists raise money for charity by riding from London to Surrey every August.
Mick Bonnar was proud to complete the ride in five hours and 28 minutes, raising £850 for Macmillan Cancer Support in the process. This money forms part of the £17m the event has raised for good causes over the last six years.
Amazing!
Stuart Cobourne (right photo), Divisional Manager from Joseph Ash Telford, also took part in a cycling challenge in August. Not only cycling though… as he completed as a triathlete in the Ironman distance contest in Copenhagen.
Having completed in triathlons for four years, Stuart wished to push himself in the ‘ultimate challenge’, by swimming for 2.4 miles, cycling for 112 miles, and then running for 26.2 miles. (It’s making our legs wobble just writing about it!)
Stuart completed the Ironman in 11 hours and 15 minutes, finishing 1076th out of 3000 starters (500 of whom didn’t make it past the finish line).
Stuart fundraised for the event and amassed over £1000 for Acorns Children’s Hospice.
Well done to both Mick and Stuart. Such amazing achievements, which you deserve to feel very proud of. (Now we want to know what your plans are for 2020?!)
A UK steel industry backed project to rebuild a hurricane-hit primary school is nearing completion in the Caribbean.
Dorset-based John Reid & Sons Ltd (REIDsteel) is leading a consortium of UK businesses – including Joseph Ash Galvanizing – which have joined forces to help reconstruct the Enis Adams Primary School on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.
Other businesses include Tata Steel, National Tube Stockholders, Euroclad, Ayrshire Metal Products, BAPP, Powell Gee & Co Ltd, Kestrel Liner Agencies and Meachers Global Logistics.
REIDsteel commercial director Tim Cook has just returned from Tortola where he saw how work was progressing under main contractor Newton Construction Co Ltd.
Tim said: “It was great to see the new school in person.
“All of the steelwork has gone up and work is going well as it nears completion. The school is being rebuilt to modern standards and requirements with disabled facilities, and an additional second floor.
“As well as seven classrooms on the ground floor, it will have a science lab, IT Suite, library, large seminar room on the second floor plus a medical room.
“The school will be much improved on the previous building and will create a real legacy for the future.”
The school was completely destroyed when hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through Tortola in October 2017.
Virgin Islands businessman Peter Haycraft, a longstanding client of REIDsteel with his former business Road Town Wholesale, has pledged his own money for the reconstruction.
REIDsteel, based in Christchurch, Dorset, with 130 employees, designed and supplied steelwork, and rallied its suppliers to support the project too.
Now they are to send keepsakes to Tortola for a time capsule to be buried at the school before it is due to open to pupils in the Autumn.
Hesketh Newton, managing director of Newton Construction Co Ltd, said: “The school is taking shape with every passing day and will be superb once finished.”
Mr Haycraft said: “It is gratifying to see the Enis Adams school rise from the rubble as our community works to put the devastation of the hurricanes behind us.”
REIDsteel designed the new school to withstand 185 mile per hour winds and earthquakes based on Unified Building Code Occupancy Category III and IV.
All of its 26 buildings in the British Virgin Islands survived the hurricanes of 2017 with only superficial damage.
Mr Cook saw firsthand how the company’s structures had stood strong while others collapsed around them during his recent visit.
Others involved in the Enis Adams project are architect AEMC Architectural Services, Civil Engineer AEC Consulting Engineers Ltd, Electrical Barry’s Electrical Services, Reliable Plumbing, S & D Security, and the British Virgin Islands Ministry of Education and Culture.
Tata Steel has helped with supply of floor decking and giving Colorcoat ® pre-finished steel for roofing, whilst Cardiff based Euroclad has given finished roof materials.
Thirsk-based National Tube Stockholders has given steel tube and steel hollow sections, Joseph Ash Galvanizing has hot-dip galvanised the structural steelwork and Ayrshire Metal Products has given secondary steel cold rolled purlins.
Barnsley-based BAPP has supplied industrial fasteners and bolts, Powell Gee of Shrewsbury has supplied fixings for floor decking and the external cladding envelope.
Kestrel Liner Agencies has helped with shipment and Meachers Global Logistics with shipping services.
Welcome to the latest Joseph Ash Galvanizing newsletter. Hot off the press today!
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