Chepstow Plant International has extensive experience operating at two of the country’s leading steelwork projects in England over the last decade. Both contracts were high-dependency operations running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
By working with Steelwork Contractors, a system can be put in place to work throughout the fabrication and construction process in steelworks. This helps reduce holding onto waste material while making efforts towards greener manufacturing.
For discussions around your steelwork requirements and how Chepstow Plant International can assist, please get in touch today.
What is Steelwork in Construction?
Construction jobs will use Structural Steelwork to form a frame of a building or larger structure that is created with steel and beams that are riveted, bolted, or welded.
Chepstow Plant works to recycle and reuse with hot steel slag from structural steelwork manufacturing, with granulate and pelite of approximately 1.3 million tonnes per annum. With over 600 million tonnes of steel being recycled annually worldwide, waste product from steel manufacturers and deconstruction of buildings, there have been industry movements for improving resource efficiency and recycling for greener initiatives.
While Prompt (industrial) Scrap is sold to warehouses and factories, when used in a manufacturing process, strict health and safety requirements are due to the product having an ambient temperature more than 500 degrees C. Chepstow Plant has a fleet of 50-70 tonne loading shovels and 40-70T rigid dumptrucks that are equipped with specialised hot-work specifications.
There is a comprehensive Health & Safety procedure in place by having the following certifications:
ISO14001:2004
ISO9001:2000
What can Steel Slag be used for?
Waste steel or Steel Slag can be used as part of other construction products. Most commonly as a granular base for roadworks in asphalt. Chepstow extracts the hot steel slag from holding pits to transport them to stocking areas where is can be distributed and recycled.
How is Steel Usually Transported?
Steel is transported using heavy duty trucks, trains or ships given how heavy steel can be. Depending on the size and amount of steel being transported it can require careful planning with health and safety certifications for the company and drivers.
With the dangerous and precise nature of hot slag, granulate and pelite, Chepstow performs a process for every project. Analysing the on-site operations and scope of your requirements. Proposing and designing replacement assets to achieve cost reduction targets while benefiting environmentally friendly solutions. Implementing the timescales for fleet integration. Learning from the process with regular feedback.
