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For the past five years Wright Engineering have been supplying major projects at a number of UK Power Stations with equipment and services.  From small beginnings, this area of our portfolio has developed into a major portion of our growing turnover.  Our multi-disciplined workforce provides a flexibility, which the power station management and their major contractors have grown to appreciate.

We have supplied and installed steel structures, buildings, walkway/maintenance access as well as process equipment/systems.  In addition we have also supplied design staff to work on site for clients requiring a site based drawing office.

Working for major contractors such as Lentjes UK on the Fluidised Gas Desulphurisation installations at Ferrybridge, Fiddlers Ferry and Rugeley sites we have installed the Limestone and Gypsum Handling Systems, Waste Water Treatment facilities, Limestone Milk Preparation Plant and various Process Building Structures and Storage Silos/Vessels. We are also supplying commissioning teams at some sites to support the start up of the major project installations.

Our centralised location, in the heart of the manufacturing centres of Sheffield, Derby and Leeds has allowed us to provide the power stations with a quick and efficient service for the manufacture and delivery to site of equipment, structures and services at short notice.

Wright Engineering have built our reputation on providing a complete service. 

We have recognised that to succeed in the Power Generating Sector a company must provide a highly flexible, client orientated, high quality service, while still providing value for money.  Our investment in our company and workforce has shown that this can be achieved with year on year growth in this sector.  

Ferry Bridge Conveyors

In October 2007, Lentjes UK awarded Wright Brothers the contract to install the Limestone and Gypsum Handling Conveyors for the Fluidised Gas Desulphurisation Installation at Ferrybridge Power station.

The contract required us to install the free issue pipe conveyors that take the limestone from the rail unloading station into the power station, and the gypsum from the power station to the new Lafarge Plasterboard factory.

The conveyors are 361 metres long (Limestone) and 430 metres long (Gypsum).

We installed the conveyors on an extremely congested site, alongside and over railway lines, roadways and buildings without any incidents or accidents, over a 7 month period. Our site management team worked with client management to ensure a smooth installation, integrating our needs and those of the many other contractors on site.

The installation necessitated many large crane lifts, the largest being a tandem lift for the Limestone conveyor head end.  Wright Brothers staff planned and executed the lift employing 500t and 450t capacity cranes to lift the 30t head end structure and land it on top of a silo 40m in height.  Our site teams are fully qualified as appointed persons, banks men and slingers, enabling us to plan and supervise our own lifts without the need for contract lifts by crane operating companies.

Our client was so pleased with our performance at Ferrybridge that we were invited to tender for the equivalent installations at Fiddlers Ferry and Rugeley Power stations.  Wright Brothers won these contracts and we are now installing the conveyor systems at both these sites.

Tate & Lyle Sugar Conditioning Silo

In March 2008 we were invited to tender for a silo installation at Tate & Lyle’s Sugar Refinery at Silvertown, London.  We were surprised on opening the tender documentation to find that the silo had a capacity of 12,500t of granulated sugar.  All our staff were keen to take the challenge of working with a new client, in a new industrial sector, on such a large and unusual installation.

The silo was delivered from the French manufacturer in sections (nominally 3t in weight). It was to be our task to install the silo, which was to be over 20m in diameter and over 40m tall when complete, on prepared foundations within a congested refinery complex on the north bank of the River Thames.

Working with the Tate & Lyle management, we undertook to perform the installation on an open book, cost plus basis.  Our Project managers preparing detailed costs for the tasks undertaken as well as the normal health and safety management on site have worked closely with the client to ensure a smooth and efficient installation.

Our site team prepared detailed lift plans and developed installation methods employing mobile tower cranes and various mobile cranes (50t to 500t capacity) to assemble the various sections of the silo.

On completion of the assembly, we then employed a team of welders to complete the welding of the silo sections, externally in mild steel, and internally in stainless steel, before the complete silo was clad in insulation and steel sheet cladding.

To complete the installation, we have been employed to install the conveyor system delivering sugar to the silo, and also the conveyor system that unloads the silo.  We are also contracted to install the silo heating and air-conditioning systems as well as the dust extraction for the silo.

The Silo installation is required to be complete and ready for commissioning at the start of November 2008.  We are currently confident that this date can be achieved.

Waste Water Treatment Plant

As part of the extensive refurbishment of Rugeley Power Station, Wright Brothers were contracted by Lentjes UK to install all the major equipment associated with the Waste Water Treatment Plant on the Station.

Our Site Team installed all pumps, tanks, silos and additive dosing equipment as well as maintenance access and stairs into the purpose built building.

As with all these types of installation, the plant equipment was installed into the building with little space between items and on a number of different levels.  The management associated with the scheduling of the installation, installing certain items before others, and the coordination with other trades/contractors working in the same building, proved a challenge.  Our site engineers successfully installed all the equipment without loss or incident.

Mill Installation

Gyptech AB, the European subsidiary of Canada’s premier plasterboard manufacturing equipment supplier, were looking for a company to provide the installation capability and resources for a new mill installation at British Gypsum’s Sherburn-in-Elmet Works.

Wright Brothers quoted and won the contract, spending the next 2 years on site installing the new Mill, Drier and Gypsum processing plant.  Working from the ground up, our site team installed all the process equipment that takes raw gypsum rock and produces stucco plaster for the board line production mixer.  Close cooperation was required between our team on site and the steelwork erection contractors to ensure that all the equipment was installed before the next floor level steelwork prevented crane access.

Four large Silos were part of the installation, two of the silos having Silex discharge systems.  Large diameter trough screw conveyors linked the various pieces of process equipment with five large bucket elevators (+20m lift, 120t/hour rating) providing the lift to the various process floor levels.

The mill produced stucco plaster on time and British Gypsum made plasterboard within their overall projected timescales.