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Merry Christmas

December 23, 2011

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Spiroll.

Please note that Spiroll will be closed from Saturday 24th December 2011 until Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

Please click on the picture or the link below to view our festive E-card.

http://www.k-motion.tv/spiroll/Spiroll_Christmas.html

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ICCX Russia 2011

December 12, 2011

Spiroll will be exhibiting with their Russian partner, VIKON, at the ICCX Russia 2011 show from December 14th – 16th 2011 at the Park Inn Pulkovskaya, St. Petersburg, Russia.

VIKON will be exhibiting their complete precast frame building systems together with Spiroll’s hollowcore production solutions including the latest Universal Extruder which can manufacture a full range of hollowcore slabs using a quick change power unit together with different compaction units.

Spiroll’s Marketing Manager, Paul Tate, and Vladimir Konovalov and Oleg Konovalov from VIKON will be there for the duration of the exhibition. We will be on booths 107 and 108.

For more information on the ICCX Russia please visit the website http://www.iccx.org/

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Al-Fayha Precast – Iraq

October 21, 2011

Spiroll is delighted to announce that it has successfully delivered a 150mm extruder to Al-Fayha Precast  in Iraq.

Al-Fayha Precast is among the largest independently owned precast concrete companies in Iraq. Based in Southern Iraq near Basrah City they design and manufacture standard and custom precast concrete products to meet large-scale infrastructure demands for highway construction, retaining walls, electric and gas utility, telecommunications, water, on-site waste water, and sewage applications.

As part of their on going commitment to the rebuilding of Iraq Al-Fayha Precast have developed a low cost housing system and required them to add 150mm deep hollow core slabs into their current portfolio of precast products.

Spiroll was selected as the preferred supplier for this project as they were able to offer an extremely competitive package together with a proven hollowcore system that has the optimum usage of raw materials to ensure the most profitable production which fitted in line with Al Fayha Precast’s exceptional range of engineered precast products and solutions.

Spiroll were happy to support Al-Fayha in the construction of their own steel casting beds locally in Iraq. This enabled Al-Fayha to make savings on the transportation costs and import duties associated with importing the beds and more importantly facilitate the quickest possible start-up by having the new hollowcore  lines in place prior to the arrival of the extruder.

Spiroll built an exact replica of the Al-Fayha casting bed at their production facility in the UK (this is standard practice for all contracts) which meant the extruder was built and all settings checked and approved prior to despatch. The Spiroll extruder can easily be adapted to work in conjunction with any brand/design of casting bed.

Not only does this save time during the commissioning process but for Al-Fayha’s machine it actually meant that Spiroll didn’t even have to send an engineer to commission the extruder. Spiroll gave full support with the concrete mix design and also supporting Al-Fayha with load span tables and design calculations compliant with ACI codes for the 150mm slabs to work with their low cost precast housing system. 

The Spiroll extruder’s simple design means it very easy to use, set-up and maintain. As you can hopefully appreciate from the photos the unique design ensures that production is low cost and the finished hollowcore is of the highest quality.

For more information on Al-Fahya Precast please visit their website www.al-fayhagroup.net

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Stephen Carr elected to British Precast Council

June 10, 2011

At the British Precast Concrete Federation’s annual general meeting in Leicester on May 18th 2011 it was announced that Stephen Carr, Managing Director of Spiroll had been elected to serve on the Council of the British Precast Concrete Federation for the next two years to represent the interests of the Associate members.

British Precast President, Steve Parker, of Roger Bullivant and Buchan Concrete Solutions  [pictured below centre] commented… “ I am delighted to welcome Steve onto Council – his experience here and internationally will serve us well.”

Martin Clarke [pictured below  right] Chief Executive of British Precast added… “ It is great to see our Associate membership strengthening. We now have two Associate members on Council and hope to see plenty of ideas flowing between us all”.

For further information about British Precast please visit their website www.britishprecast.org.

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Help for Haiti – Spiroll launch fund for ‘Fast Housing’ scheme

April 26, 2010

Following the tragic earthquake which devastated Haiti in January Spiroll has launched an appeal to help fund the urgent need to house the country’s homeless. The firm’s accountants have set up the fund ‘Fast Housing for Haiti’ which has been granted charity status. The appeal goes out to Spiroll customers and suppliers as well as the construction industry in general.

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Hollowcore Hotting Up In India

March 30, 2010

A continuous campaign to support the establishment of hollowcore in India has resulted in Spiroll securing its first Indian contract. Spiroll’s efforts came to fruition after Stephen Carr and Richard Jamison visited India in February this year for the Cemcon seminar in Pune.

In its fifteenth year, the seminar entitled ‘Redefining Mass Housing and Infrastructure in India’ was the first of its kind to focus on the country’s building needs. The event, which was jointly organised by the ICI (Indian Concrete Industry) and Cemcon, attracted companies from all over the world and proved to be an excellent showcase of precast companies as well as a demonstration of the knowledge that already exists in the country. (more…)

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Partnership Promises Affordable Housing

February 28, 2010

A partnership between two of the world’s longest established players in the precast concrete products industry is set to tackle the global need for low cost, affordable housing.

Spiroll Precast Services and the Pakistan-based Izhar Group have signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ (MOU) to jointly pioneer an initiative designed to provide fast-track affordable housing worldwide.

The directors of both companies recognised the ongoing need for low-cost accommodation in the poorer, third-world countries of Africa, Asia, and South America. (more…)

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Spiroll Precast Lecture Spans Continents

October 7, 2009

The King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was the venue for a recent training seminar which featured a presentation by Spiroll.

The course titled ‘Design and Construction of Precast Concrete Structures’ ran for three days from 30 May 2009. The event was organised by the Centre of Excellence for Concrete Research and Testing, Saudi Society of Civil Engineering and the American Concrete Institute Saudi Chapter.

Managing Director of Spiroll, Stephen Carr, and Dr. Howard Taylor, one of the world’s foremost experts in the design and construction of precast concrete, delivered a series of presentations on the benefits of building with precast concrete. (more…)

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