The Metal Centre at Blake Group recently manufactured a set of portable shinty goals which were used for a Tayforth Camanachd league match at the Meadows Festival in Edinburgh. These were supplied at a discounted rate to the East Central Scotland Shinty Association (ECSSA) to help support shinty and local sport in Edinburgh. Going forwards, …
A custom bunded tank solution Blake Group tank department supply a integrally bunded generator base tank for DCDC Power Design of the unit is performed in-house using Solidworks 3D software. Both the bunded tank and generator are modelled, which ensures that all components match prior to manufacture. This also allows the client to view the whole assembly in 3D. This helps with many aspects of the …
Festival time in Edinburgh is fast approaching again and Underbelly’s ‘pop up’ bar, The Abattoir is back at George Square for a third year. Blakes created the venue by converting storage containers and we are delighted to see it’s return for the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. Converted containers provide an extremely robust, flexible and cost efficient solution …
The Fabrication team have manufactured and installed what will be two of the more noticeable features from Blake’s involvement on the Queensferry Crossing. The North Abutment enclosure structure Working with architectural glazing specialists Glassal, Blakes have assisted design, manufactured and installed these striking features, which provide the Abutment accesses at the North and South of …
Blake Tanks have been awarded a contract from the UK’s leading generator specialist Dieselec Thistle. The order is for tanks in varying sizes to support Dieselec’s extensive generator range. Paul Moore, Managing Director of Dieselec commented:- “We have had a long standing partnership with Blake Tanks and they were the right choice for us to deliver …
Our onsite Fabrication Team have installed the Date Plaques to the North and South Abutment entrances on the Queensferry Crossing. The 2017 Date Plaque above the South Abutment entrance. Photo courtesy of Transport Scotland. Numbers for the 3.5m x 1.5m plaques, were designed on 3D Solidworks, cut with our Swift Cut 3000 Plasma Table and …
Blake Tanks have just delivered three tanks to Johnston Fuels to serve their new depot at Ayr. The three 60,000L units will hold diesel, gas oil and kerosene and have been delivered to site as part of the depot fit-out. Blakes involvement in establishing the Ayr operation which will commence operations in mid June, represents the …
We are proud to announce our membership of The 5% Club, a formal acknowledgement of a long held view at Blakes that business should be about improving lives! We currently have 3 first year and 4 third year apprentices in training, representing around 12% of our workforce. In addition, one of our longer serving members …
For more information from Olly and the Vert team, please visit www.vertrotors.com
Blake Tanks have recently delivered a 40,000L vertical cylindrical gas oil tank to Leiths Group, one of the Country’s leading construction material providers, to support their new asphalt plant at Midlairgs, Inverness. The new 40,000L gas oil tank with mixing equipment at Midlairgs. In addition to Midlairgs we have also just received a further order …