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Our markets

Local authorities

We provide a range of access and drainage products used across infrastructure and development projects, supporting a variety of site and installation requirements.

As investment continues in transport networks and urban infrastructure, our product range is supplied for projects across cities, towns and villages where access to below-ground services forms part of the development.

Local roads

OUTSTANDING SERVICE AND PRODUCTS

We understand the importance of reliable infrastructure to ensure smooth operations for local authorities. With years of experience, we specialise in manhole coversgully grates, and other highway products built to last. Our products are engineered with high-quality materials, ensuring longevity and reducing the need for frequent maintenance and call-outs.

Our team of specialists collaborates with your teams to understand your specific requirements and provide tailored solutions. From product selection and trials to installation guidance, we are with you every step of the way, ensuring a seamless and successful project.

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Our solutions

Unite offers a 10 year warranty
INDUSTRY LEADING WARRANTY

Unite 10-year Warranty

When installed with either our Unipak polymer resin bedding mortar, or Instarmac Envirobed® CD534 flowable bedding mortar, the Unite range is available with a 10-year product warranty*.

Unite is used across local authority and utilities projects for highway ironwork installations, supporting installation practices for ductile iron access covers and frames.

For further details please get in touch

*subject to terms and conditions

Who we've worked with

We are proud to be specified by many of the leading water and telecommunication utilities across the UK, such as Thames Water, Scottish Water, Yorkshire Water, Virgin Media and many more.

Working together we have developed tried and tested systems and products that have helped to alleviate many common problems that cause setbacks, inconvenience and costs to be incurred.

Wrekin utilities customers
Road breaking up around gully grate installation creating a pothole

POTHOLES - MORE THAN A SURFACE ISSUE

Helping to find solutions to the UK's pothole problem

Potholes across the UK’s road and highway network are a real problem. But did you know ironwork specification and selection can affect and even increase the likelihood of a pothole forming?

Our new report explores;

  • Some of the ways in which potholes are caused; including identified links to ironwork
  • What features of ironwork can increase the likelihood of pothole formation 
  • Suggests solutions you should be looking for when specifying ironwork
  • and much more.

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Unite is a proven range, in service for over 20 years and offers benefits to asset owners, contractors and end users.

Contributing toward net-zero carbon

As a large supplier to the UK construction industry, managing the reduction of carbon usage is crucial to the success of the Wrekin business. We appreciate it is not just the actions of our business as a designer and distributor or civil engineering solutions which needs to be managed, but those of the supply chain we’re a part of.

To this end, Wrekin are committed to measuring and managing the reduction of carbon emissions across our activities and those of our suppliers.

Lighting

80% of lighting in our facilities is low energy LED.

EV Charging

Four EV charging stations are available on site for staff & customers.

Energy usage

Targeted 3% reduction in electricity usage in 2022.

Waste

0% of site waste is sent to landfill.

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Create an installation that lasts

Specification clauses

Download and use our specification clauses within project documentation to reference Unite and Highway product ranges for ironwork installations. These documents provide clear guidance to support specification and product selection during project planning.

Incorporating these clauses within specifications helps provide consistency in product selection and installation approach across projects involving ductile iron access covers and frames.

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Promoting responsibility with Britain's waterways

The Sea Starts Here

We're promoting awareness of a simple but important issue on our most popular Tristar D400 gully gratings. Did you know that waste disposed of down gullies, whether at a roadside or pedestrianised area, can end up in the watercourse. This includes rivers, brooks, becks, ditches, leats and culverts. Ultimately, it has the potential to reach the sea, meaning the sea often really does start here.

In collaboration with a long-standing house building client, we've taken the notable step to include "The Sea Starts Here" as a message on our highest selling Tristar gully gratings. The message serves as a poignant reminder that our actions on land reverberate to our oceans.

Unipak bedding mortar with adjustment units
RAPID-SET, HIGH STRENGTH BEDDING MORTAR

Unipak

Unipak is a BBA HAPAS certified rapid-set polyester resin bedding mortar system for highway ironwork installations. It has been developed and tested for use within highway environments.

Suitable for BS EN 124-2 applications, it can be used independently or alongside Uniform chamber adjustment units, which are manufactured from the same two-part polyester resin material and form a solid structural build-up once cured.

A supportive team

A supportive team

We have developed a strong reputation in the civil engineering services sector thanks to the wealth of experience of our skilled teams. We offer technical expertise, with customer support tailored to your needs. Our team works with asset owners, developers, main contractors, ground workers and local authorities throughout a construction scheme’s lifecycle, including:

Initial project support

Listening and working with customers to fully understand their requirements. We provide pre-tender and tender support to lend a competitive edge.

Product specification

Our technical experts and value engineering service means that you have access to advice and support.

Design schemes

Our talented team provides full design services, with the added bonus of supporting documentation and drawings.

Advice and site meetings

We understand the value of regular site meetings, helping to improve communication, giving installation advice and ensuring each project is completed successfully, right down to the project review

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Contact us

Whether you are looking for live project support, or are in the initial stages of specification, we are always on hand and happy to help.

Book a call at a time that suits you

Related case studies

Related case study

Unite(d) at Sunderland City Council

Sunderland City Council is responsible for the maintenance and repair of most roads and bridges in Sunderland. Like so many highway authorities, it had been receiving complaints from residents about noisy manhole covers. They immediately suggested Wrekin Products’ Unite manhole covers, which in addition to eliminating displacement under heavy traffic, as J T Dove explained, offer a range of other benefits.

Sunderland City Council
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Improving Reliability with Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is responsible for maintaining and improving Dudley’s roads and highways, which consist of a network of some 600 miles of both major and minor roads. Wrekin's Unite range and Unipak mortar were used in the improvement of the quality of roads around the Dudley area.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
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