In The News

Article mentioning Phillip Rees in The Rail Engineer magazine Phillip Rees Welding Ltd was contracted by Carillion to provide specialist welding services for steel tubes used to stabilise the land around the Rhymney Valley railway line. Phil was mentioned in an article called “Moving Mountains at Sebastopol” in The Rail Engineer magazine, an excerpt of which is below.

Innovation

There is now a substantial stock pile of the steel tubes on site. They are provided by Corus from their works in Hartlepool. The quantity required and their length has caused some concern since the maximum length of pile that can be delivered to site is 18m. As a consequence, Carillion are using Phil Rees Welding a specialist welding subcontractor, to weld additional lengths to the tubes, as required. Phil Rees has also introduced a specially designed vehicle that is able to transport the extra long tubes from the site access down to the point of installation. Lee Newcombe has described this piece of plant as being a godsend and a good example of innovative thinking on behalf of their subcontractor. The vehicle is already in demand on other sites in the country which is good news for Phil.