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VMS win Ford Transit Tipper deal for Fastflow Pipeline Services

VMS welcomes Fastflow Pipeline Services as a new customer. Based in Newcastle, Fastflow is a dynamic, growing and independent utility service provider. Established in 1991, it provides a comprehensive range of utility infrastructure services covering all aspects of pipeline networks. 

VMS have supplied six Ford Transit Crew Cab Tippers with a CPD body conversion. Working with CPD Bodies Ltd, they have convertedthe chassis cab into a steel tipping body with a single electrics tow bar and twin amber beacon.The newly built, additional fleet will help to minimize company downtime and will reduce fleet overhaul during busy periods.

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Safety barriers should not compromise facility hygiene

Every product in the hygiene logistics trail must contribute to overall health and safety – and a new range of polymer-based safety barriers could prove revolutionary for sensitive workplaces

Dust, debris, dirt – the deadly 3Ds for those working environments where cleanliness is most certainly next to godliness.

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Hope and Stanford celebrate construction partnership milestone

Two British businesses are celebrating a landmark partnership which has seen them create the floors for 50 major UK construction projects in just three years.

The UK’s leading independent concrete supplier, Hope Construction Materials Ltd, and the country’s leading concrete flooring innovator Stanford Industrial Concrete Flooring Ltd are marking the 50-project landmark…with another two significant flooring contracts!

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Safety & Access Ltd celebrate 25 years of supporting industry

Humber - June 9th
Nottingham - September 7th

The days feature input from CISRS and NASC along with presentations from the largest principal contractors in the UK.

There will also be trade stands, demonstrations and attractive offers and incentives.

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ECA publishes new BIM Level 2 checklist

Free information for small and medium-sized firms has been released by the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), to coincide with the government’s April 2016 introduction of requirement to use BIM Level 2 in significant centrally procured contracts.

The ECA’s ‘BIM Basics’ checklist highlights the ‘bare essential’ requirements that firms within the building services sector will need to meet to work on BIM projects.

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