A&J FABTECH WATER
DIVISION CELEBRATES
£10MILLION MILESTONE
A&J Fabtech Water Division is celebrating hitting the £10million order mark since the start of its own current 5 year investment and business development
plan which started in 2014.
aving spent over 20 years
designing, constructing
and installing structures
for water treatment, A&J
Fabtech Water Division
is celebrating hitting the
£10million order mark since the start of
its own current 5 year investment and
business development plan which started
in 2014.
H
Mark Wright, Managing Director at A&J
comments, “the water division came into
being back in 1994 in order to formalise
the supply of bridge scrapers, skimmers,
thickeners and associated platforms,
gantries and access structures to the UK
water authorities. This was also when our
first 5-year plan came into being. Over
the years we have refined our electro-
mechanical designs and continued to
improve the performance and reliability
of the products. In-fact there are very few
major water treatment facilities in the UK
that don’t include some of our equipment.
We set our own planning, investment and
targets in a five year cycle, as does the
Water industry itself with the five-yearly
Asset Management Plan (AMP) periods. We
start ours before the AMP period ends and
extend it through the main investment
period during the middle of the following
AMP cycle. Prices for the water industry are
obviously set by Ofwat at the beginning of
each period, following submissions from
each company about what it will cost to
deliver their business plans, so we base the
first years on known quantities.
It’s our job to make sure our planning
falls in-line with this industry cycle, and
hitting the £10million order intake mark
this early in a cycle is a major achievement,
especially as the bulk of the investment
in the current AMP6 period is still yet
to come. We can see that most of the
UK water authorities are going to have
to spend quickly now to keep-up with
the targets set them for investment in
infrastructure projects.
One of the reasons we retain our own
design team and a large fabrication facility
is to balance our work between, power,
rail, water and general fabrication – this
allows us to retain the capacity needed for
when the peaks arrive in cyclic industry
specific investment periods. There is
investment to come from the UK water
industry and we will be ready for it.”
About A & J Fabtech Ltd
A&J Fabtech Water Division
offers a dedicated team of
experienced individuals who provide the
capability to design, manufacture and
install a wide range of standardised and
bespoke products for the water treatment
industry, in addition to working with
customers to problem solve on existing
plant. At every stage the team is focused
on engineering the best possible solutions
to ensure that equipment evolves to
become increasingly cost effective and
efficient in service.
A&J is one of only a few UK based
companies that not only design and
manufactures a range of scraping
equipment in-house but also has the
capacity to meet the needs of the water
industry and current legislation BSEN 1090,
not just on rotating half bridges but on a
full range of rotary scrapers and thickeners
for both dirty and clean water applications.
The company is also a registered supplier
on the UVDB database and is UVDB Verify
accredited.
A&J Fabtech Ltd: Andrew Shedden
Tel: +44 (0)1924439614
Fax: +44 (0)1924 456536
Web: www.ajfabtech.com
Email: [email protected]