Citation
(2006), "Wedge is a big hit in West Indies", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 53 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.2006.12853eab.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Wedge is a big hit in West Indies
Wedge is a big hit in West Indies
West Midlands-based B E Wedge Ltd is in the mood for a Caribbean Calypso after successfully winning a contract to supply galvanized steel components for a brand new cricket stadium in the West Indies. The stadium, on the Caribbean Island of St Kitts, is being built to stage matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup next March and April.
Specialist centrifuge- or spin- galvanizers, B E Wedge (of Stafford Street, Willenhall) has galvanized around 4,000 individual seat fixing components, weighing approximately 17ton in total, which will be used at the ultra-modern Warner Park cricket complex. Warner Park is the headquarters of cricket in St Kitts and Nevis and is already nearing completion.
B E Wedge was contracted by as surrey- based fabrications company to galvanize the seat columns and rings which will carry 2,500 hinged spectator seats. For the World Cup, the total capacity of the stadium is due to rise to 10,000, with the addition of temporary seating.
Lee Dickens, B E Wedge Ltd's Technical Sales Representative, says: “We are delighted to have been asked to work on such a high profile international project. In the past steel components galvanized by B E Wedge have been sent to countries all over the world, including the USA and the Faroe Islands, but this is certainly one of our longest-distance jobs.”
The Warner Park stadium will be home to world champions Australia, plus South Africa, Scotland and Holland in the group-stage first-round matches of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2007. Although not yet a test match ground, it is due to stage major international fixtures and has some of the most stunning scenery of any cricket ground in the world.