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Cleveland Cable
Company sets the
standard
Leading the way - the Cleveland
Cable site in Middlesbrough.
M
iddlesbrough-based Cleveland Cable
Company has become the first cable
distributor in the world to be awarded
Registered Stockist certification status.
The new industry certification scheme
has been designed by the British Approvals
Service for Electric Cables (BASEC) to raise
quality standards in the industry throughout
the supply chain.
Cleveland Cable has worked closely with
BASEC, an organisation that partners with
the worldwide cable manufacturing industry,
providing testing and certification services.
The Tees firm – the UK’s largest
cable stockist - piloted the assessment
programme and provided valuable insight
of their experiences during implementation,
across UK and Ireland operations.
By meeting the stringent assessment
process, Cleveland Cable has become
accredited under the Registered Stockist
scheme, validating its internal quality
programmes, procedures and traceability
lines.
Employing more than 500 people across
its eight branches in the UK and Ireland,
the firm regularly undertakes quality
assessments to verify cable design and
electrical properties to ensure they meet
the required standards. This includes in-
house testing of cables held in their own
stock.
The foremost supplier of industrial cable
in the UK for sectors including construction
and rail, the company also regularly visit
the overseas factories of its suppliers to
undertake audits and to ensure professional
quality management systems, along with
production line and test facilities, meet the
high standards required by Cleveland Cable
and the UK market.
The BASEC Registered Stockist scheme
forms part of the company’s established
Market Surveillance initiatives to drive the
improvement of cable quality and safety
throughout the supply chain and industry,
with rigorous certification, factory auditing
and testing.
Alastair Powell, managing director of
Cleveland Cable, said: “We are exceptionally
proud to become the world’s first cable
distributor to hold the BASEC Registered
Stockist status.
“We are at the forefront of the drive
to deliver increased quality among cable
stockists and distributors, which has now
been recognised through the awarding of
Registered Stockist certification by BASEC.
“The status also demonstrates to the
market our working relationship with
BASEC, and our backing for the company’s
commitment to exceptional standards in our
industry, while also providing verification
of our processes and the quality of the
products we supply.”
We’ve got painter training covered!
U
niversal Coatings has gained an
important accreditation to support
the ongoing skills development of
its workforce.
It has also developed a new solution for
the maintenance of waste-to-energy plants,
which has involved significant training of its
personnel.
The company, which is part of the
Wilton Group, is delivering the Society
for Protective Coatings’ Train the Painter
courses for its employees as part of its
commitment to offer high quality products
and improving quality standards.
SSPC Train the Painter is an internationally
recognised and certified training
programme. Developed by industry experts,
the coatings applicator course has been
created in response to strong demand
within the industrial coatings industry.
Industry demands teams working on
road, rail, oil and gas programmes all attain
professional specified certificates. The SSPC
Train the Painter programme is approved
and certified by SSPC and Lloyd’s Register.
The accreditation has been awarded by
Corrodere, a specialist coatings industry
training and education organisation,
and enables the company to deliver the
training to its staff. Universal also intend
to offer the training programme to external
trainees from its facility at the Port Clarence
Offshore Base.
The training reflects
Universal’s ongoing approach
to skills development,
which is reflected in its
new energy-from-waste
boiler maintenance service.
In addition to significant
research and development
to produce the technical
solution to clean the interior
of massive boiler units,
Universal has delivered
specialist training in areas
such as blast cleaning and
working-at-height rope
access for its personnel who
work in 16-strong teams to
complete the maintenance
projects.
Paul Johnson, managing
director of Universal
Coatings, said: “We are
committed to a ‘right first
time’ ethos, which is at
the heart of our quality
Solution - the Universal Coatings facility.
operations and delivered by
our experienced people.
“This new accreditation will enable
“The capabilities of our team, coupled
Universal to help develop our existing and
with our innovative approach to problem
future workforce, giving our customers a
solving, has also helped us gain traction in
clear demonstration of our capabilities and
the energy-from-waste sector as they are
assurances of the quality products they will
already successfully applying our solutions
receive.
on a number of plants across the UK.”