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We've successfully completed a major electrical infrastructure upgrade at our Joseph Ash Chesterfield site.

Joseph Ash Medway were busy in the run up to Christmas installing a brand new galvanizing bath in our plant. Galvanizing baths, also known as kettles, need replacing after a few years to keep the bath in good condition as the thickness of the walls degrades over time. Changing our baths as necessary means we […]

“I am sure I am not alone in thinking that 2025 has passed unbelievably quickly. It is that time of year to share a few thoughts and more importantly a few thank you messages. “2025 has been a positive year of progress for Joseph Ash Galvanizing. The determination and performance of our colleagues has been […]

Ever wondered where the name Joseph Ash Galvanizing came from? Almost 170 years ago, the company was established and named after its founder, Joseph Ash. Here, we cover the rich history of Joseph Ash, the founder of Joseph Ash Galvanizing. Joseph Ash was born to Thomas Ash (1796-1866) on 30th June 1824 and was the […]

Our latest company newsletter is now live! We’re proud to have won the Hill & Smith PLC Group Safety Leadership Award for our dedication and commitment to health and safety. We also shine the spotlight on Premier Galvanizing Limited Hull, our galvanizing facility in the North East, to showcase the plant’s capabilities – including 24-48 […]

Joseph Ash Galvanizing the proud winners of the Hill & Smith Group Safety Leadership award, showcasing our dedication to health and safety.

Our latest company newsletter is now live! UK Metals Expo was a huge success this month, and it was great to see so many people both familiar and new. We also shine the spotlight on Joseph Ash Bridgend, our galvanizing site in Wales, to showcase the plant’s capabilities as one of our nine sites across […]

Our latest company newsletter is now live! This month, we spotlight Joseph Ash Widnes (also knows as Widnes Galvanising Limited), our galvanizing site in the North West. We’ll also be attending UK Metals Expo in just a couple of weeks’ time, so don’t forget to grab your free tickets if you’re planning on attending! Read […]

Our July 2025 company newsletter is now live.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing worked closely with Millimetre to hot dip galvanize a 25m tall spiralling illusion in the heart of Brighton.

Our latest company newsletter is now live! This month, we were proud winners of the Supplier of the Year award from the Steel Windows Association, and we share how Premier Galvanizing Corby helped the team at Hill & Smith PLC create an outdoor learning environment for the children at a school in Solihull. Read your […]

We won the Supplier of the Year category in the Steel Window Association Awards for our galvanizing and powder coating services.

Premier Galvanizing Corby was proud to donate 15 pallets for the assembly of an outdoor classroom for Monkspath Junior School.

Our May 2025 company newsletter is now live! This month, we had the opportunity to chat with Jess Price, our Transport Compliance Manager, to find out all about her role in the company and how we’re looking to stay safe and sustainable with our transport. Our Galvanizing Today article explores what makes hot dip galvanizing […]

We had the opportunity to chat with Jess Price, our Transport Compliance Manager at Joseph Ash Galvanizing, to find out a bit about her and her role within the company.

Our latest company newsletter is now live! We said a fond farewell to Pauline Alcide, Assistant Account at Joseph Ash Galvanizing Head Office, as she retired after over 30 years’ service. Our Galvanizing Today article covers the benefits of powder coating for aluminium, and why it’s preferential to traditional liquid paint. Finally, we share our […]

After over 30 years at Joseph Ash Galvanizing, Pauline Alcide, our Assistant Accountant, is leaving to enjoy her retirement.

Our March 2025 company newsletter is now live! This month, our Galvanizing Today article explores how you can protect steel that is too small for hot dip galvanizing from corrosion. We also spotlight Amy Leachman, our Team Leader at Joseph Ash Walsall, and discuss her role in the Hill & Smith PLC Women’s Network, designed […]

We're excited to share we're increasing our production capacity at Joseph Ash Bilston.

We had the opportunity to chat to Amy Leachman, our Team Leader and Joseph Ash Women's Network Representative, to talk about her role and the Hill & Smith Women's Network.

Our February 2025 company newsletter is now live.

We had the opportunity to chat with Paul Martin, our Commercial Manager at Premier Galvanizing Corby, to find out a bit about him and his role within the company.

Widnes Galvanising Ltd, trading as Joseph Ash Widnes, has achieved the ISO 9001 accreditation for Quality Management Systems.

Joseph Ash Medway hot dip galvanized 300 bike racks and an accessibility ramp, fabricated by GBT Steelwork, for a modern student apartment.

After an incredible 41 years of service, Mick Jackson, our IT and Marketing Manager, is leaving Joseph Ash Galvanizing at the end of the year to pursue new opportunities.

Jason Anderson, Managing Director at Joseph Ash Galvanizing, gives and end of year message for customers and colleagues.

We outline our closing and opening schedules for our nine UK site for 2024 here.

As a proud Silver Sponsor, Joseph Ash Galvanizing is thrilled to celebrate the winners of the latest Structural Steel Design Awards.

We were proud to hot dip galvanize and powder coat a powerful sculpture in commemoration of Keti Koti, created by artist Sokari Douglas Camp.

GBT Steelwork undertook a project to fabricate balconies for a prestigious apartment. Joseph Ash Medway was proud to galvanize some of these balconies.

The end of the month sees the Joseph Ash Group bid farewell to two long-serving colleagues today: our General Managers at Corby and Widnes.

To celebrate Hill & Smith PLC's landmark anniversary, Joseph Ash Galvanizing arranged fun-filled days and activities across the month of June.

Ian Gill Sculpture produced an award-winning stand at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Premier Galvanizing Hull was delighted to galvanize it.

Sustainability week at Joseph Ash Galvanizing encourages colleagues to focus on the environment, with competitions and prizes to be won.

We talked to Mike Worth, Head of Technical & ESG, to learn about his expertise in the galvanizing industry and shares his advice for customers facing some of the most common issues when it comes to galvanizing.

A huge congratulations to Charlie Singh, General Manager, who celebrated an incredible 40 years at Joseph Ash Galvanizing!

A huge congratulations to Jackie Wright, who celebrated 25 years at Joseph Ash Galvanizing today!

Joseph Ash Galvanizing is delighted to announce the appointment of Jason Anderson as the Company's new Managing Director, effective 31st January 2024.

We're excited to introduce the brand new Joseph Ash Galvanizing: adapted to better serve our customers with their specific galvanizing needs.

A huge congratulations to Pauline Alcide who has recently celebrated 30 years at Joseph Ash Galvanizing!

We were proud to hold our own Oscars Awards Evening to celebrate the colleagues who played a role in helping create new internal Joseph Ash video content.

This month's focus is a spotlight on Widnes, one of our nine Joseph Ash plants spread across the UK. Learn about the plant.

The Joseph Ash Group takes pride in showcasing its extensive network of nine plants strategically located throughout the United Kingdom, encompassing diverse regions spanning from north to south and east to west. This month, our focus is on one of our Midlands-based facilities, Joseph Ash Walsall.

We galvanized a life-size cob horse as part of the Changing Chalk project as a reminder of the rich cultural heritage of communities in the South Downs.

The 55th Structural Steel Design Awards recently took place in London. Congratulations to the winners and everyone who took part.

Widnes Galvanising is trialling a brand-new, environmentally-friendly passivation process.

In the spotlight is our specialist one stop shop facility, Joseph Ash Medway. Find out more about their galvanizing and powder coating services here.

Find out more about Premier Galvanizing Hull: our facility in Yorkshire deserving of the spotlight.

We recently galvanized giant letters in the shape of Young V&A's logo to sit atop the brand-new children's museum.

After 19 years working at Joseph Ash Galvanizing, the company said farewell to John McMahon on the 30th of June. All the best, John!

This month's news highlights our Northamptonshire facility, Premier Galvanizing Corby. We're putting a spotlight on Corby to showcase its remarkable capabilities and state-of-the-art amenities.

June 6th 2023 means that Jeannette Dixon has been with Joseph Ash Galvanizing for 40 years! Find out about her time at the Company here.

We're proud to announce that David Hull has been promoted to UK Head of Health and Safety for Hill & Smith PLC (Joseph Ash Group's parent company).

Looking for the widest galvanizing bath in the UK? Look no further than Joseph Ash Telford! At 2 meters wide, Joseph Ash Telford can hot dip almost any steel fabrication.

Liam Houghton, Assistant Divisional Manager at Premier Galvanizing Corby will be completing a 72-hole golf marathon in aid of the charity TOFS.

This month's featured plant is Joseph Ash Chesterfield, one of our nine plants spread across the UK. We’re sharing details about our services, and facilities and the hardworking team members who make it all possible.

In 1998, Ranjit Singh started work at our Walsall plant. Fast forward 25 years and we are proud to say he is celebrating a quarter century at Joseph Ash.

Widnes Galvanising is the latest plant in the Joseph Ash Group to begin offering powder coating and shot blasting services.

Friday 28 April 2023 is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. As a Company that prioritises health and safety at work, we proudly promote this national initiative.

This month's featured plant is Joseph Ash Bridgend, one of our nine plants spread across the UK. We’re sharing details about our services, and facilities and the hardworking team members who make it all possible.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Lily Mae Foundation Charity Golf Day! Joseph Ash Galvanizing was proud to support the event.

What a fantastic day at Joseph Ash Walsall! We've raised just under £4000 and hundreds of Easter Eggs for a local food bank. Today we invited the charity to our plant to receive the cheque and chocolate.

Paul Williams recently joined our team at Widnes Galvanising as Maintenance Manager. We took the chance to speak with Paul and find out all about him and his new role.

We’re spotlighting our plant in Bilston to share its history and what our team members and facilities can offer.

2023 is the year of incredible long service milestones, as Daljit Singh recently celebrated 45 years at the Company!

Charlie Singh and his team at Joseph Ash Walsall are trying to raise as much money as possible to support Breaking Bread, a food bank in the Midlands.

We speak to Jess Ramanouski, Internal Sales Executive at Joseph Ash Galvanizing's Widnes site, to find out a bit about her and her role at the site.

The RIDBA Building Awards is taking place in 2023, and the deadline to submit your entries is 31 March 2023.

Valentine's Day 2023 marks Mick Jackson's 40th anniversary at Joseph Ash Galvanizing! We had the chance to catch up with him and show appreciation for all his years of hard work.

For National Apprenticeship Week 2023, we decided to interview Matthew Phillips, who is completing a Team Leader apprenticeship.

Evenley Wood Garden recently turned to Adam Baillie, to create an art installation in the form of letters to welcome people to their gardens. Adam turned to Joseph Ash Walsall to galvanize the steel.

We recently installed a new galvanizing kettle at our Hull plant. Replacing a bath every 7-10 years is important for health and safety reasons. Find out why.

Meet Gavin Jones, our Commercial Manager at Widnes Galvanising. Learn a bit about him and his plans for the Widnes plant here.

We've recently launched a new set of company values for the Joseph Ash Group. They are collectively called 'Our Chemistry'.

Beneath the Wood is an animal sanctuary in Wales that rescued 53 pigs. Find out how the rescue led to an interesting new piece of foot care machinery, galvanized at Joseph Ash Walsall.

Read our A-Z of Galvanizing - everything you've ever wanted to know about galvanizing if you work with steel.

ISO 1461 – the British standard for hot dip galvanized coatings on iron and steel articles – has recently been updated. The new 2022 version supersedes the 2009 version. Find out what the changes mean.

We are delighted to announce that Joseph Ash Limited has acquired Widnes Galvanising Ltd. Founded over 20 years ago, Widnes Galvanising operates in the northwest.

Joseph Ash galvanizes a new, unique space on behalf of Metafab Solutions, to protect Trecco Bay holidaymakers from the weather

Congratulations to our colleague Kevin Hilden who has reached 25 years service with Joseph Ash!

We’re proud to announce that Joseph Ash Galvanizing in Chesterfield has again been granted ‘Fit for Nuclear’ status

Sokari Douglas Camp applauds the Carnival spirit with hot dip galvanized steel sculptures

Managing customer collections and deliveries is important to us. Because we’re always looking for improvements in this area, we have recently installed TIP Insight at our Joseph Ash Chesterfield plant.

Joseph Ash Medway commissions new pallet racking for goods in / despatch yard, to improve safety and organisational efficiency.

As weather forecasts across the UK look good this week, with plenty of sunshine, we’re celebrating the ‘Mr Blue Sky’ sculpture in Newham.

Following World Environment Day at the weekend, the Joseph Ash Group has designated the first week of June to be ‘ESG Week’. This is the first of a new annual event. Find out what we're doing.

Great news! Joseph Ash Galvanizing has been awarded ISO14001, the international standard for designing and implementing an environmental management system.

When using steel in construction a good design will prevent any processing problems at the galvanizing plant and will also ensure you get the best steel coating possible

Every year, the Draycott Village Fund promotes ‘Draycott in Bloom’. In 2022 they’re using the Platinum Jubilee as the key theme. Joseph Ash galvanized their steel.

As sustainability and emission management are critical drivers for our business, we always look for vendors with a responsible approach to the environment.

We're pleased to announce that we're celebrating across the Joseph Ash Group, after landing another RoSPA Gold Award

Last week, our Bilston plant had a visit from Pat McFadden, Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. It's always great to welcome new visitors.

This month we showed Dr Greig Campbell around the plant. Greig is a Bilston born historian whose PhD focused on the campaign to save Bilston Steelworks in the late 1970s.

A state-of-the-art environmentally friendly building has been designed and built for Joseph Ash Bilston. The team happily moved in, in January.

As the steel construction industry moves to net-zero carbon by 2050, embracing the ideals expressed at COP26, Joseph Ash is playing its part.

The importance of trust when choosing a galvanizer. 'Nest' by sculptor Ian Gill.

Read our end-of-year message to all our customers, from Steven Hopkins, MD, Joseph Ash Ltd

Galvanizing is important for M&E supports as it plays a primary role in the protection of steel. Lucy Foster-Bowen explains why in a MIDFIX podcast.

Investors in people: Joseph Ash becomes an approved Driver CPC centre providing regular driver training and vocational courses to our employees.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing is a proud sponsor of the Netherton Colts U7s football team. Have a great season!

CEO Steven Hopkins visits the ancestral home of the Joseph Ash family.

When the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs needed a new bridge for the 'Dinosaur Court', they commissioned Cake Industries for the project. Joseph Ash Chesterfield protected the steel.

A beautiful structure with a stark warning - fabricated by Cake Industries and hot dip galvanized by Joseph Ash Galvanizing.

It's always good to get a different perspective, and that's just what happened when we received some drone photos of our Bilston plant.

In 2020 a new structure was erected at the busy new commercial office district of Stratford’s International Quarter London. The structure – The Living Room – was commissioned by Lendlease, fabricated by one of our valued clients – Cake Industries – and hot dip galvanized by Joseph Ash Galvanizing.

We're looking for additional hot dip galvanizing operatives for our plants. Are you interested?

Galvanized steel is an important part of everyday life. But how does its prevalence today affect the environment of the future? And what role does it play in the circular economy?

Take a look at these amazing dragon sculptures! They were recently hot dip galvanized at our Bridgend plant, for Phoenix Forge.

The Whitby Walk with Heritage Sculpture Trail has opened in North Yorkshire. Emma Stothard is the appointed artist, and our Hull plant protected the steel.

Stunning animal sculptures fabricated from horseshoes by sculptor Tom Hill, and hot dip galvanized by Premier Galvanizing Corby

For the last two years, Godbold Blacksmiths has been exclusively sending projects to Premier Galvanizing (our sister company) for steel finishing. The Hull plant said that it’s been an honour and a privilege to protect the steel produced by such an amazing team of artists and makers.

In December 2020 the Joseph Ash Chesterfield plant underwent a series of major improvements. Find out more about the works.

We're pleased to announce that Joseph Ash Galvanizing's Medway plant has again met the bronze level requirements of the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS).

Meet Dennis the Dragonfly - a stunning steel sculpture by Orna-Metal UK, hot dip galvanized by our Corby plant

We wish to employ additional hot dip galvanizing operatives for our Corby plant. Are you interested?

JB Corrie, Joseph Ash Galvanizing, the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and Chichester Racquets and Fitness Club are helping with the movement to make the sport more popular.

In 2019 a project was underway to add a new canopy roof to the Ken Rosewall Arena in Australia. Macalloy was engaged to provide the steel tension rods. And Premier Galvanizing Hull (part of the Joseph Ash Group) was engaged by Macalloy for hot dip galvanizing.

Earlier this year, a gigantic sculpture was added to the Lemur Wood of Dudley Zoo and Castle (DZC), in the Midlands. We were proud to hot dip galvanize it.

We believe we have a duty of care and a moral obligation to our employees to help them have good mental health, so we have recently engaged in B.U.D.I.E.S training. Find out more.

Health and safety has always been of paramount importance to Joseph Ash Galvanizing and Premier Galvanizing, and this is especially the case during these COVID times.

Joseph Ash has nine plants across the Midlands and the South East of England. This month we’re shining the spotlight on our Telford plant.