Specialist plate bending for Osiers Gate provided by Barnshaws

The latest Barnshaws Plate Bending project in London involves the expansion of the Barratt development pipeline in Osiers Gate.

The project is one of the key urban redevelopment sites in the London borough of Wandsworth, and sits between Enterprise Way and the River Wandle, a brownfield plot that has been occupied by 20 light-industrial work sheds.

Barnshaw Plate Benders have provided a number of excellent quality pressings for the development’s balconies.

The designs from Assael Architecture see a twenty one-floor landmark tower, four floors shorter than original proposals during planning consultations, plus an assortment of shorter residential buildings with an average height of nine floors each. 

Within the scheme will be 275 residential units with affordable apartments in a self-contained block. There will also be commercial and residential space, and a local health centre.

For more information about Barnshaws’ services please visit our website www.barnshaws.com.

You can also find out more about our latest bending projects at http://www.barnshaws.com/blog/.

Barnshaws curved box sections featured in Construction News

Barnshaw Section Benders curved box section for the Trinity Square project, which is featured in ‘Construction News’ November issue.

These sections were 350*350*16 SHS to 3114 i/rad with straights one end; considerably tighter than anyone else in the UK can cold bend. Read more about the project at http://www.barnshaws.com/blog/?p=179

Beautiful spiraled artwork supplied to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee

Barnshaw Section Benders worked closely with Craufurd to supply the best quality sculpture to commerate the Queens Diamond Jubilee.  Craufurd was approached by Windsor and Eton Society that wanted to mark the occasion with a permanent memorial.

The design of the sculpture consisted of a beautifully bent spiral decorated with 60 circles, which was originally suggested by a 14 year-old Caroline Basra from Windsor Girls’ school. The idea was for the tribute of 60 ‘diamond’ spheres to represent each year of the Queen’s reign.

Barnshaws was awarded the tube bending project due to the company’s excellent bending knowledge and capabilities, and impeccable work pieces provided to many creative architects.

The spiraled pipe sculpture consisted of 1/6^th scale maquette and the upper most sphere replicated ‘diamond’ as the ultimate feature piece. The mirror polished stainless steel spheres were 230 diameter and were attached to a satin polished 76mm stainless steel spiral tube bent by Barnshaw aluminium bending department. The overall height of the sculpture is 4.65m tall when on it’s granite plinth.

The sculpture was placed in the King Edward’s Court shopping centre and on the 9^th October 2012 was inaugurated by the Queen.

Barnshaws Deliver Exceptional Plate Bending Work for No 1 Blast Furnace Repair

Barnshaws Plate Bending has been awarded a metal bending project for the No 1 Blast Furnace Repair located in Redcar.

Steelmaking is the bedrock of a northeast heavy industry that dates back to the 1850s.The blast furnace, now heating up to 1,200°C, will be used to produce the site’s first steel slab in over two years since closing in 2009.

The repair work will shortly see the first steel-convertible iron being produced.

Barnshaws Plate Bending aided the project by producing various rolled, pressed and tack-welded pipe and ductwork. Not only will this rebuild project have a positive impact on the local economy, it will also leave a strong mark on the steelmaking market in the UK.

George Dunning, Redcar council leader and campaigner for the return of steelmaking to the area, said: ‘To have another 100 well-paid steelworker jobs coming to the area is great. For the local economy of Redcar and Cleveland it’s a major boost.”

The plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 3.6 million tonnes and by the end of 2012 the facility will export to Asia. The workforce is expected to rise from 1,700 to 1,800 when production peaks.

For more information about plate bending please visit our website www.barnshaws.com.

You can also find out more about our latest bending projects at http://www.barnshaws.com/blog/

Barnshaws Awarded with Plate Bending Work for No 4 Blast Furnace Rebuild

One of the largest investments of this year in the UK is the £185 million (€221 million) rebuild of the No 4 Blast Furnace at the Tata Port Talbot plant in South Wales. The project will see the existing furnace dismantled and replaced with one of a similar size — 89 metres, or 291ft, in height.

Barnshaws Plate Bending branch located in West Midlands has significantly contributed to the project producing various rolled and pressed items of ductwork. These included the development and profiling the required sections prior to rolling and tack welding before delivering the completed items to site.

The project will leave Port Talbot with two state-of-the-art blast furnaces and increase iron-making capacity, whilst also enhancing safety and environmental conditions. The rebuild will boost the capacity of the two blast furnaces by up to 400,000 tonnes per year.

Jon Ferriman, hub director of operations at Port Talbot claims: “The rebuilt furnace will be capable of producing larger volumes of hot metal more reliably over the course of a long 20-year campaign life.”

The project is also important in socio-economic terms as it is very meaningful to the steelworks and Port Talbot’s longevity.

For more information about plate bending please visit our website www.barnshaws.com.

Barnshaws metal bending services featured in Pipelines International

We are very happy and honoured to see our metal bending services featured in Pipelines International Industry News.

We recognise that ‘as the world’s energy requirements grow, and resources become more expensive and scarce, the need for a more efficient pipeline bending method increases’.

Find a copy of our feature at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151165756339710&set=a.10150790820789710.421676.89967124709&type=1&theater

For more information about pipe bending and much more please visit http://www.barnshaws.com/pipe-bending.php

Barnshaws plate rolling expertise helps produce fresh water and electricity for offshore renewable construction project

Barnshaw’s Bending Centre in Hamilton was recently awarded with an innovative project involving a wave device for a leading UK offshore company. This was due to Barnshaw’s company’s previous experience working within the renewables sector and our competitive prices / quick turnaround time.

The customer played an important role in generating energy from waves, with the added ability to also provide drinking water simultaneously for countries in need. Barnshaw’s were naturally very excited to obtain this assignment.

     

Barnshaw’s Bending Centre in Scotland prepared and rolled aluminium plates. The Hamilton branch provided the project with 388 rolled cylinders at 121 tonnes (800 O/D at 2m wide x 8mm thick). In total the plate bending work took up to 3 weeks.

The end-result of this project presented a float traveling up and down with the waves and operating a pump to pressurise seawater, which was piped ashore. Many individual pumps were connected together to produce substantial amounts of pressurised water. Once ashore, the seawater was used to drive a standard hydroelectric turbine to produce electricity.

For more information about plate bending for offshore renewable construction please visit our websitewww.barnshaws.com.  You can also find out more about our latest bending projects athttp://www.barnshaws.com/blog/