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News Release from: Wedge Group Galvanizing | Subject: Tenby Lifeboat Galvanizing Contract
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 November 2004
Wedge Helps Launch New Tenby Lifeboat
Wedge is helping to launch a brand new lifeboat after winning an important contract to galvanize 250 tonnes of hollow-section steel for the craft's new slipway at Tenby, West Wales.
Newport Galvanizers Ltd in Gwent - part of the Wedge Galvanizing Group - is helping to launch a brand new lifeboat after winning an important contract to galvanize 250 tonnes of hollow-section steel for the craft's new slipway at Tenby, West Wales Part of a state-of-the-art lifeboat station and launching facility which is being built alongside the town's existing one, the steel slipway has been fabricated by Newport's customer, Taylor and Sons of Cardiff
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 15 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new ?2 million Tamar Class lifeboat to be named the Haydn Miller, is due to be in service by September 2005.
Mike Small, Sales Manager for Newport Galvanizers Ltd, says that the galvanizing process will play a vital role in protecting the slipway for new lifeboat station because the steel sections are completely exposed to the sea water: "It's a very corrosive and hostile environment but galvanizing is the best solution to protecting the structure." With some of the steel beams for the slipway measuring between 10 and 14 metres, and weighing up to six tonnes, two other companies within the Wedge Group which specialize in galvanizing large structural steel sections - Edward Howell Galvanizers Ltd of Wednesfield, West Midlands and Worksop Galvanizing Ltd in Nottinghamshire - have also undertaken some of the galvanizing for the lifeboat station contract.
The new Tenby lifeboat station will be the first of three stations, due to be completed in Wales in the next few years.
Newport Galvanizers Ltd are confident that the experience they have gained on the current project in Tenby means they have a good opportunity to gain further similar business contracts in future.
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