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Express & Star 12 Oct 10
An historic Willenhall-based galvanising firm has won a contract to help build the main football stadium for the Euro 2012 football championships. B.E. Wedge is helping construct the Olympiysky Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine.
The firm, part of 150-year-old Wedge Group Galvanizing, has galvanised 1,000 metal poles for the new 69,000-seater ground – due to be completed in June 2011. Sixty seven plant staff and 20 office workers are based at B.E. Wedge in Stafford Street…
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MBN 6 Sep 10
Wednesfield-based Edward Howell Galvanizers has offered a helping hand to an up-and-coming artist which has seen her reach the final stages of a national sculpture competition.
Wolverhampton sculptor, Dawn van Gerven, was selected by South West-based Broomhill Art and Sculpture Foundation to bring her ‘Spanish Dancers’ to life.
Having welded the structures herself at facilities at Wolverhampton University’s sculpture department, Dawn approached Edward Howell Galvanizers Ltd who undertook the process of galvanizing the steel used to construct the sculpture, which involved it being dipped in molton zinc at a temperature of 450°C…
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Express & Star 12 Dec 09
Wedge, the historic Black Country galvanizing business, has risen to its latest challenge – to build the tallest paper tower in the world. The structure made from cardboard tubes linked by galvanized steel joints has proved to be a major attraction at the 2009 London Design Festival…
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B'ham Post 14 Jul 09
A Midland galvanising firm has received a timely boost from the economic downturn after a subsidiary company landed three big construction contracts. Worksop Galvanizing, in Nottinghamshire, which is part of the Willenhall-based Wedge Group, has won a deal to galvanize more than 1,000 tonnes of structural steel for Nottingham-based steel-frame buildings specialist company Caunton Engineering…
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B'ham Post 23 Jun 09
A new £6m state-of-the-art plant has been built for Willenhall based Wedge Group’s subsidiary East Anglian Galvanizing Ltd in Cambridgeshire and is the newest of the Wedge Group’s 14 UK-based hot-dip galvanizing facilities…