News : cladding

Highly specialised welding and complementary services such as fabrication, machining, corrosion protection and NDT in the oil & gas sector are available to meet the diverse needs of equipment suppliers manufacturing a range of components from pipelines and flanges to risers and pigging systems.
However, finding all, or even a few, of these disciplines from a single-source supplier is rare as the need for an...

Weld overlay cladding and fabrication specialist Arc Energy Resources has recently completed the coating of three large Quench Valves for a major offshore oil & gas installation.
The directional quench valves, which weigh approximately three tonnes, were delivered to Arc Energy’s Gloucestershire facility, as pre-machined body castings. In order to combat the combined erosion and corrosion attack from an...

Weld overlay cladding and fabrication specialist Arc Energy Resources has appointed Cliff Hall as Sales Engineer. Cliff, who has more than ten years’ engineering experience in the machine tool and laser profiling industries, will initially focus on developing Arc Energy’s close relationships with existing customers in the oil & gas, nuclear, marine and process industries.

Arc Energy Resources has successfully completed a contract to carry out its highly specialised welding and fabrication services on a pig launcher and retrieval system (PLR) destined for a time-critical application in the Cascade Chinook oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico, where operator Petrobras is laying an additional subsea pipeline to increase production.
The contract, for the subsea division of Vector...

Welding engineering specialists Arc Energy Resources has invested in a Faro portable coordinate measuring arm (CMM), advancing the companies inspection facilities for its weld overlay cladding and fabrication services.
It enables the company to precisely measure the complex geometries often encountered in the valves, pumps, pipe work and fittings produced for the oil & gas, nuclear, renewable and related...

Kawneer’s windows, doors and curtain walling feature on the redeveloped K College in Kent.
The entire range of architectural aluminium systems from Kawneer were used on the redevelopment of K College for their “high quality” and flexibility.

Kawneer’s windows and doors and curtain walling, used vertically and as rooflights, feature on the £60 million new-build and refurbishment of the former West Kent College...

Formica Group launches VIVIX® exterior façade panels at EcoBuild 2012
For the first time in the UK, Formica Group will be introducing the newest addition to its materials portfolio with VIVIX® exterior façade panels. Answering an increase in demand for decorative, lightweight and robust rainscreen cladding, VIVIX is brand new to the UK market and will be on display for visitors to Ecobuild 2012, 20-22nd March...