Citation
(2006), "Major expansion by South West Galvanizers Ltd in Devon", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 53 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.2006.12853bab.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Major expansion by South West Galvanizers Ltd in Devon
Major expansion by South West Galvanizers Ltd in Devon
Wedge Group company, South West Galvanizers Ltd of Crediton, Devon – part of the UK's largest independent group of galvanizing specialists – has started the third and final phase of a major expansion work at its site at Marsh End, Lords Meadow Industrial Estate.
A new 150 sq.m “white end” deck area is being added to the company's existing 550 sq.m galvanizing facility. This section of the plant will house a new deck crane in addition to the existing galvanizing and preparation cranes to significantly improve the speed and efficiency of galvanizing operations. It will particularly enhance the company's “white end” operations where galvanized items are prepared prior to delivery.
Tony Wonnacott, Wedge Group's Regional Director for the South West, said: “The new facility is due for completion in January 2006 and will give South West Galvanizers Ltd a number of big advantages. It will greatly increase our capacity at the “white end” of the process and also include a passivation tank to further improve the quality of the products we deliver to our customers. It will also free-up valuable space and equipment in other parts of the plant, which in turn will make the whole operation faster and more efficient.”
He said the purpose of the expansion work, which now represents a total investment of almost £1 million, was for South West Galvanizers Ltd, which employs a staff of 43 people, to provide an even better hot-dip steel galvanizing service to new and existing customers in the Devon, Cornwall, Bristol and Somerset areas.
The company's modern galvanizing bath measures 7.5 × 1:2 × 2:5 m (working dimensions) and meets all the latest European and UK environment-protection regulations.