VALMONT STAINTON COMPANY PROFILE
In 1978, Valmont Stainton, commenced the manufacture of octagonal lighting columns and many of these columns are still gracing the motorways of the UK. From our humble origins as the UK subsidiary of Petitjean S.A.S (a French pole manufacturer), a successful MBO and subsequent acquisition by Valmont Industries, Valmont Stainton is the UK’s largest manufacturer of lighting columns. We are pleased to be part of the largest pole manufacturing company in the world with 94 facilities worldwide, Valmont are truly a global leader with activities as diverse as irrigation equipment, coatings, tubing and engineering structures.
Over the last 30 years we have continued to grow and diversify our product range and now manufacture the largest range of columns, high masts, tramway and mobile telephone structures, electrical utility poles in the UK.
Manufacturing capabilities allow us the flexibility to produce poles in tubular, conical, octagonal, polygonal, square and even triangular shapes, utilising mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium.
From the Valmont Group’s portfolio of products we are pleased to be able to offer very specialist decorative products as well as wooden poles from one of the Valmont sister companies. Please visit the Valmont Group’s decorative pole website to see our full range of decorative product -write-your-story.com/en/.
Our company has always been at the forefront of new product design in the UK, whether it be raising and lowering poles, stainless steel poles, or utility poles. As a result of this drive and initiative we are pleased to be the first UK lighting pole manufacturer to design, manufacture and test a Passively Safe lighting columns specifically for the UK Lighting column market. This latest product innovation features a range of 100HE:2 10m and 12m columns, these are manufactured from galvanised steel and can be painted to fit seamlessly in with existing installations.
Finally, our ranges of mid-hinged and base-hinged poles are second to none and are available in all the materials we currently work with, a new range of mid hinged aluminium columns will be available in Q1 2012.
“To respond to the needs of our customers with service and products that set new standards of performance and at the same time to continually strive to improve them to meet the needs of tomorrow”
As we enter our 33rd year of manufacture we continue to concentrate on what we know best: simply to design and manufacture poles and columns.
Manufacture
The Valmont Stainton plant covers an area of 14 acres [7ha] with over 100,000 sq feet [9300m2] dedicated to manufacturing and painting. Employing over 150 employees we have manufacturing capacity well in excess of 250,000 poles per annum and an untapped and excess capacity available. Continuous investment and improvements in plant and equipment, along with doubling the capacity of our painting facility, ensures we are in the best possible position to continue to offer high levels of service in addition to our PFI commitments.
Design
At Valmont Stainton we take pride in the products we design and believe we offer a design and technical backup service which is second to none. We actively encourage our customers to involve us in all aspects of the design process from concept, through close liaison right through manufacture to final installation and commissioning. We employ the very latest design techniques from AutoCAD to 3D Solidworks and Modelling to our custom designed computer programmes.
Painting
Being the 1st company in UK to offer hot dip galvanised columns as standard, the clear evidence from the market place is that our policy was correct. However, we acknowledged some time ago that painting was going to be an increasing market demand either for aesthetics or to prolong corrosion protection and as such have invested heavily in our painting facility and we expect to paint more than 40,000 poles this year.