Powder coating perfectionists at Joseph Ash Galvanizing Medway

Welcome to a bright new world of colour from Joseph Ash Galvanizing.

Do you have any powder coating needs? Are you looking for long lasting, low-maintenance, colourful coverings for architectural metalwork, street furniture, fencing, gates and other steel products?

Look no further.

Whatever your powder coating needs, the Joseph Ash Medway plant* can offer a wide variety of durable powder coating finishes from metallic to textured, in a huge range of bright colours with varying matt, satin and gloss levels.

We have a full range of RAL colours available, and special colours can also be made to order.

A nine stage dipped pre-treatment package is also available, and all work can be packaged and delivered (direct to site if required) using our own transport fleet.

We can also powder coat other materials, including aluminium and brass.

The maximum weight for powder coating is 200KG, and the maximum size is 3.2M x 2.4M x 0.7M.

We are also accredited with the following standards:

BSEN 13438
BSEN 15773
BSEN ISO9002

Joseph Ash Medway offers new dimensions in powder coating colours, using optimal processes for outstanding results.

(* Joseph Ash Galvanizing Medway trades as Medway Galvanising Company)

Joseph Ash Galvanizing employees asked to design an innovative safety solution to enhance health and safety at our plants.

The health and safety of employees is of paramount importance to Joseph Ash Galvanizing, and concerns had been growing about the safety of team members in our plants working under large jigs suspended in the air by cranes. As a company we wanted to find a solution which would prevent workers being badly injured should a crane fail.

To this end, Steven Hopkins, the Managing Director at Joseph Ash Galvanizing set all employees a challenge to design a simple, portable safety solution, not involving heavy chunks of fabricated steelwork. To encourage innovative ideas, Steven also provided an incentive whereby the winning designer would be given £500 to donate to a charity of his/her choice.

After a very short time we are pleased to report that Lee Groves, from Joseph Ash Bilston, designed and fabricated some portable supports which will protect the safety of our employees when working under a jig.

The solution was important to Lee and throughout the process he asked for feedback from other colleagues in order to produce a solution that would be adopted in practise.

Lee has chosen SARA – the Severn Area Rescue Association – as the charity to receive £500 and Joseph Ash Galvanizing has donated the money in Lee’s name.

Not only has Lee helped to ensure the safety of his colleagues, but his donation is also helping to keep people safe on the rivers and land in the Severn Estuary area.

Well done Lee!

Bilston plant is currently the only galvanizer in the UK to receive OHSAS 18001.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing has always been proud of its health and safety standards and certifications, and continually strives to protect all employees and visitors who enter their galvanizing plants. The Joseph Ash Bilston site has recently moved a step further than any other galvanizing plant in the UK however by being awarded the OHSAS 18001 Certification.

The Certification to OHSAS 18001 commits Joseph Ash Galvanizing to having a clearly defined management system in place to identify and control health and safety risks. It means that Joseph Ash Bilston can:

Create processes for continually reviewing and improving occupational health and safety
Minimise the risk of production delays
Provide a safe environment in which to do business
Ensure legal requirements for the industry are adhered to
Minimise risks of downtime through accidents.

Achieving the certification involved the redevelopment of the existing Bilston health and safety policy to articulate commitments to the continual improvement of health and safety performance. Three members of the Bilston team also completed the required OHSAS 18001 Internal Auditor Training.

Steven Hopkins, Managing Director at Joseph Ash Galvanizing said:

“The team at Joseph Ash Bilston are proud that they’re currently the only galvanizing plant in the UK to receive OHSAS 18001 certification. This is a great achievement for Joseph Ash Galvanizing. Watch this space to see the other Joseph Ash plants follow suit!”

Customers with enquiries about the OHSAS 18001 Certification are invited to contact Joseph Ash Galvanizing on 0121 504 2560 or via sales@josephash.co.uk.

As 2014 comes to a close we are pleased to announce some substantial new additions to our plant in Chesterfield – exciting improvements which form part of a major investment drive and facilities upgrade.

Over the past few years Joseph Ash Galvanizing has invested heavily in the various plants across the Midlands by increasing bath sizes and procuring new fleets of trucks. It also successfully acquired a new plant in Sittingbourne, to service customers in the South East. As 2014 comes to a close Joseph Ash is still investing, but this time at the Chesterfield plant, where major developments are already underway.

If you’ve been following our social media posts on Facebook and Linkedin, you will have seen our photos about land being cleared and flattened. Despite the teasing nature of these photos, we can now reveal that we are adding another huge hardstanding bay to the Chesterfield plant – an area that can house up to 100 trailers.

The developed land will also include an area where customers can trial erect their fabrications before taking them off-site and delivering them to the end user. We hope that the ability to test the assembly of steel fabrications will save our customers much time and money on large projects.

We will also be improving our ability to handle customers’ work with the addition of an extra crane gantry area, providing us with the ability to load several customers’ vehicles or containers at a time. Customers preferring to load their own containers or carry out pre-site assembly or other processes will also be able to use this facility.

Other developments at the Chesterfield plant will include:

Additional concrete storage space
Extension of the fork-lift fleet
Container loading facilities including ramps and bays
Extra racking
Local overnight facilities and changing facilities for truck drivers
Offices and telecoms for customer use
MPI crack detection
Factory space (up to 2000m² currently available) suitable for fabrication or assembly.

Hereford

With regret, we are proposing to close our Hereford operation in the spring of 2015. There has been a mounting requirement for significant investment in the Hereford factory over recent years which likely future returns do not justify, and capital will be better invested in our other plants.

Existing Hereford customers will be serviced from the company’s six other plants. Three of these plants include the widest galvanizing bath in the country at Telford, the deepest galvanizing bath at Bilston, near Wolverhampton, and the second longest bath in the UK at Chesterfield.

The year ahead in 2015

The New Year will see Joseph Ash Galvanizing continuing to go from strength to strength. As the work at the Chesterfield plant becomes complete we will share the results with you. We also plan to share other developments that benefit our customers in the years to come.

If you have any questions or queries about the plans at Chesterfield, please contact David Carling – Chesterfield Divisional Manager on 01246 854650.

We’re pleased to announce that Joseph Ash Walsall has just taken delivery of a new fleet of trucks, which will be used for customer collections, and deliveries. This brings our entire Walsall fleet up to four articulated vehicles and five rigid vehicles, meaning we can manage almost any collection or delivery for customers.

The trucks are Scania 250 rigid vehicles which can carry up to nine tonnes in weight, and they were sourced from Keltruck who provide a first rate service to all Joseph Ash plants in the Midlands.

Improved customer service

The new vehicles will enable Joseph Ash to continually improve our excellent levels of customer care as all vehicles are equipped with Scania fleet management data and live GPS tracking. This means that we can not only obtain data at any given time on the exact location of the trucks making customer deliveries and collections, but we can also obtain weekly and monthly data on the vehicles which include MPG, idling and speed.

Environmentally sound

The new trucks are amongst the most technologically advanced on the market and are equipped with Euro 6 engines, which means they are very environmentally friendly with improved MPG and some of the lowest CO2 emissions available.

At Joseph Ash, we’re not only pleased to be able to offer improved customer logistics and service, but we’re also proud to be doing our bit for the environment.

Arrange your next collection by contacting Joseph Ash Walsall today!

Joseph Ash Telford employee spin galvanizing

Did you know that Joseph Ash has nine plants across the Midlands and the South East of England? This month, we’re shining the spotlight on our plant in Telford to let you know what our staff and facilities there can offer.

The UK’s widest bath at Joseph Ash Telford

The Joseph Ash Telford plant has one of the widest galvanizing baths in Europe, and the widest bath in the UK. With an overall width of 2.1m, a length of 7.6m and a depth of 3.35m, this bath is one of the most versatile in terms of galvanizing wide objects and odd-shaped fabrications.

In recent times the bath has hot dip galvanized everything from bridge components, to staircases, and sculptures in the shape of horses. It also regularly galvanizes components for major manufacturers in the agricultural, fencing and trailer sectors.

Spin galvanizing services

As well as galvanizing large items, Joseph Ash Telford can also galvanize small parts in our spin galvanizing bath – everything from hinges, nuts, bolts, bracketry and fixings – and we are one of the most technically advanced small parts galvanizer in the UK.

Our other services

Artic transport between our sites

The Joseph Ash Telford plant has a large fleet of artic and rigid vehicles. We offer a competitive collection and delivery service in the Midlands and surrounding areas. We also offer a 24/48 hour collection and delivery milk-run service in the Shropshire and Powys regions.

Steel containment

As well as a collection and delivery service, the Joseph Ash Telford plant also provides an export containerisation service. Simply let us know where in the world your galvanized fabrications need to end up, and we can help.

Packing

The Telford plant provides a basic assembly, packaging and bundling service, and we are happy to discuss any requirements you may have. We can also provide on-site storage.

Familiarise yourself with our helpful safe deliveries guide to keep the delivery process safe for everyone.

Highest quality standards

You can be assured of quality workmanship at Joseph Ash. All work at Telford is galvanized to BS EN ISO 1461 and our quality system is approved to BS EN ISO 9001.

Contact our Telford team today to see how we can help you.

Problems with steel transportation? Working to tight deadlines? We can help.

For steel projects that require transportation contact any Joseph Ash plant as we’ll not only arrange collection and delivery to and from your workplace, but we‘ll also deliver your steel to end user sites after it has been treated by us.

Our Walsall plant is particularly equipped to manage these logistics as we have a very large transportation fleet available for utilisation.

If you are also working to very tight deadlines, we can help with overnight turnarounds too. Call us, tell us your requirements and we’ll send a lorry out to collect your steel. We can then hot dip galvanize it within a short period of time (and shot blast and powder coat it too from our Medway plant if required) and deliver it back to your plant, or to its final destination.

To give you an idea of timeframes, if you contacted our Walsall plant we can normally collect, treat and deliver steel projects in Bristol, Stroud and Gloucester within 24 hours, or Derby within 48 hours.

At Joseph Ash we like to make our customers’ lives as easy as possible, and transportation and overnight turnarounds really helps!