Out of a pickle
February 1st 2005

When Premier Foods suffered a fire at its Branston Pickle factory in Bury St Edmunds last October, SGB helped secure damaged areas.

Forty SGB employees worked 24h/day, in two 12h shifts, for three weeks to get the plant back in business to ensure that Branston Pickle was in the shops for Christmas.

No damage was done to production lines during the fire, but there were initially fears of a pickle shortage as the packaging area was badly affected. SGB started work within 38h of the initial phone call from Paul Godfrey, MD of Paul Godfrey Construction, to provide a scaffolding system that would span the packaging areas and support a temporary platform to allow bottling to restart below. The platform enabled the construction company to repair the damaged roof.

SGB used traditional scaffolding materials and provided 18 000 new scaffold boards, 34 000 fittings, 130 000ft of tube and 180 aluminium beams, each 8m long.

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