Highland Galvanizers toast success
Highland Galvanizers toast success
A leading Scottish galvanizing firm has won a £100,000 contract for work on the development of new warehouses for whisky producers Whyte &McKay.
Elgin-based Highland Galvanizers Limited has galvanized over 500 tonnes of steel for three two-storey warehouses being built in Grangemouth at a cost of£20 million.
It is the latest in a series of major contracts for the expanding firm, part of the Highland Metals Group which also operates Highland Electroplaters Limited in Aberdeen and Highland Colour Coaters Limited in Cumbernauld. The group employs over 100 staff at its three sites.
The company recently completed a £50,000 contract for galvanizing the complete Janetstown test facility built to assist the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear site in Caithness.
Managing director Geoff Crowley said: “The facility is part of a 50-year decommissioning plan and our clients were looking for a system which would protect the building for at least that length of time”.
Similar protection was required in the exposed maritime climate of Shetland where Highland Galvanizers treated the structure of the new Shetland Museum which will open in the summer of next year. The £30,000 contract involved the galvanizing of 50 tonnes of steel.
Recent export orders have included the galvanizing of batches of steel rods and plates for the oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan.
The Highland Metals Group serves customers in a wide range of industries,including agriculture, oil and gas, manufacturing, fish farming, fabrication,construction, distilling and communications. It has a base of over 800 account holding customers in an area stretching from Shetland to Carlisle.
Concentrating on quality and delivery, Highland Galvanizers Limited recently introduced an Xpress service which enables it to guarantee 24-hour delivery. Quality control, maintained by full-time graduate quality managers on each site,has helped the company to achieve 99.7 per cent perfection.
Speed and quality were the key to Highland Galvanizers being appointed as specialist sub-contractors for the rapid delivery of new stadia for Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club. In just eight weeks, Highland Galvanizers and steel fabricators Isleburn Structural Services of Invergordon ordered, supplied,processed and erected galvanized structural steel for the club's two new stands to host ICT's first home Scottish Premier League.
