Ancorite Surface Protection Ltd

Leading Surface Protection Company Ancorite Group announces investment in its UK business with the Steuler Group acquiring 75% of Ancorite Holdings Limited (and its subsidiaries) in three stages completing in 2024.

Steuler Group who are headquartered in Hoehr-Grenzhausen near Frankfurt in Germany are one of the largest designers, manufacturers, and installers of anti-corrosive surface protection products globally. It employs over 2700 employees with revenue of around 440 million Euros.

Ancorite Group Managing Director Mark Nicholson commented– ‘We are delighted to become a new family member of the Steuler Group. This will future proof the long term continued success of the business with synergies complementing our current service offering of specialist floor coatings, rubber and refractory linings, anti -corrosive linings and GRP pipework. It will also allow access and opportunities to new market sectors, products, and services to support the growth and future ambitions of the Group.’

Ancorite Surface Protection was asked to refurbish the flooring for the Impregnation Area Tank Farm at wood-based panel board manufacturer Egger UK, Hexham, where a number of tanks and other equipment items were positioned in close configuration. The existing flooring showed signs of wear and a durable, easy to clean surface was required.

Ancorite provided an Argelith vibration tiling system with a matching high coved skirting to the perimeter. The tiling was made good around circular tanks and plant legs, giving the new flooring a high-quality appearance. The tiling was laid to falls and a stainless-steel channel had been laid by the client prior to commencement of the work. Ancorite also formed a ramp between the tiled floor and an existing surface at the threshold.

The work was carried out by a small team of skilled craftsmen and the resulting high-performance flooring is durable and easy to clean, meeting the client’s requirements for a practical and robust finish.

Queens Park Rangers Football and Athletic Club contacted Ancorite in Spring 2017 with a view to renewing the South Africa Road concourse flooring at the Loftus Road Stadium. As the area concerned was an upper floor, a system with the capability to tolerate future movement was required.

The existing rubber stud flooring was removed and the concrete substrate thoroughly prepared prior to installing a hygienic cove to the wall floor junction.

BASF Mastertop 1324, a crack-bridging Polyurethane flooring, with a glass bead anti-slip finish was utilised. MasterTop 1324 is durable, decorative and easy to clean. It gives a long service life, resists dirt, liquid penetration and impact – ideal for areas with high usage and significant foot traffic.

Ancorite completed the work within programme during the close season in Summer 2017.

With over fifty years’ experience in the supply and application of specialist flooring, Ancorite provides the highest quality flooring for the Irish pharmaceutical industry.

A recent project for Roche, Clarecastle, County Clare, involved the application of epoxy terrazzo flooring as a replacement for the existing floor.

Laid on an epoxy screed, the Flowcrete Mondeco seamless terrazzo flooring and terrazzo coving were installed by our Irish team of craftsmen in production areas and corridors at the plant.

Ancorite has provided specialist flooring at Clarecastle for many years, with acid resistant tiling, resin flooring and terrazzo being applied. This project is typical of the high-quality flooring which Ancorite provides for pharmaceutical plants throughout Ireland.

Ancorite Surface Protection Ltd has recently completed refractory lining services associated with the Teesside Gas Cracking Project, SABIC UK Petrochemicals multi-million pound overhaul of the Olefins 6 plant at Wilton. The overhaul represents a major investment in the Teesside chemical industry, with Ancorite working alongside Doosan Babcock, Jacobs and other leading contractors, to upgrade the seventeen ethylene furnaces on the plant.

The Olefins 6 upgrade will allow the plant to utilise ethane gas imported from the USA amongst other feedstocks. New burners have been fitted and Ancorite fitted more than one thousand new ceramic burner quarls, sixty on each of fourteen furnaces and one hundred and forty-four quarls on two further furnaces. Ancorite also carried out refractory repairs and maintenance emerging from the upgrade.

Planning for Ancorite’s role in the project was complex with the refractory programme starting in late 2015 and completion in early 2017. The company is continuing to provide refractory services for SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd.

Ancorite Surface Protection Ltd has been awarded a contract for the supply and installation of the internal lining system for the New No 1 Hot BPA (By-Products Acid) Tank for Lucite International Ltd, Cassel Works, Billingham.

Site work commenced in autumn 2016 and the lining system is due for completion in spring 2017. Ancorite’s contract includes procurement and installation services and work is currently in progress on site.

The internal tank lining is a complex, multi-layered system comprising acid resistant brickwork and epoxy vinyl ester resin. The final coating is furane based with glass fibre reinforcement.

On completion, the New No 1 Hot BPA Tank will be one of two Hot BPA Stock Tanks at Cassel Site. Ancorite provided the lining system for the existing tank, some years ago.

Ancorite Surface Protection Ltd has successfully completed a prestigious project to lay a hard wearing resin flooring system for the flagship new main stand at a leading British football club. The flooring was laid during the 2016 closed season with the new stand opening in September.

Ancorite secured the work with main contractor Carillion to supply and install six thousand square metres of Mastertop 1324 resin flooring to the main concourse areas of the new stand. The concourses provide areas for the fans to buy refreshments before they go through to their seats.

Mastertop 1324 is a heavy duty, polyurethane flooring system which can be installed quickly, offers good durability and is easily maintained and cleaned. Due to the flexible nature of the product it can cover several different surfaces including concrete, screed and plywood. The flooring was laid on two levels and Ancorite provided a small team of craftsmen who carried out the work, in a phased programme, with the majority of the flooring laid in July and August 2016.

Ancorite Surface Protection Ltd has announced the recent retirement of Managing Director, Neil McConnell. Neil joined Ancorite as Contracts Manager in 1988, before becoming Operations Director and then Managing Director in 2013. Ancorite has grown substantially under Neil’s leadership and the team wishes him a long and well-earned retirement.

The role of Managing Director has passed to Andrew Cummings, formerly Contracts Director, with Anthony Frain and David Clegg joining the board alongside Financial Director Alison Smith. The new team has recently been strengthened by securing Gary Doran as Senior Contracts Manager, Gary also has a wealth of experience in the industry.

Neil has wished the team every success as they continue to develop the company in new directions.