BRICK FABRICATION
GEMINI WORKS
ESTATE ROAD
PONTYPOOL
TORFAEN NP4 6YW
Tel: 01495 759555
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Suppliers of: Prefabricated brick chimneys, prefabricated brick arches, Brick Slips, GRP Chimneys, GRP Canopies, Brick Cladding, Brick Cladding Panels, special bricks
Brickfab - Prefabricated arches, brick specials, chimneys, GRP canopies & panels… How do we create the best brick building products on the market? It’s through innovation and investment.
We value our incredible people and invest significantly in their training and development. We respect their opinions and implement their ideas; in this way we create technological advancements that make our processes more efficient and our products even more useful to you. Combine this with our on-site customer service and our keen ear for real-world feedback, and we’re confident you won’t find a better building partner.
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Planning a new housing development is complex and challenging.
That’s why Brickfab offers full design support, with CAD drawings available for each product (in 2D or 3D) and a partnering approach with housebuilders that ensures their schemes are executed in a manner that closely matches the masterplan.
Quick to acquire, simple to install and cost-effective – our prefabricated brick or stone clad chimney solutions are designed to meet the visual and structural requirements of your housebuilding project, no matter the scale. Available in brick, stone or ready for rendering on-site, we deliver our prefabricated chimneys ready for pointing with lifting eyes pre-installed.
We manufacture using bricks collected from site, guaranteeing a perfect match with the rest of the build. We prefabricate our chimneys in factory conditions to the highest standards of quality control, and Live Class 1 and 2 chimneys are available.
To add decorative flourish, our range of off-site manufactured arches are the perfect fit for your build. We supply brick-faced arches with full soffit cladding options too. Our customer focus means we supply products in the way that suits your project, collecting bricks from site to ensure a perfect colour match. If you don’t see the arch you’re looking for, just give us a call.
All brick arches supplied by Brickfab are prefabricated off site to ensure quality standards and are available to order with a variety of height, pattern, soffit, backing and infill options.
Cut and bond brick and block products are a mainstay of the housebuilding industry, helping structures to go up quickly, efficiently and with the best possible finish.
Our brick special manufacturing is carried out in factory conditions to the highest standards of quality control; our British Standard brick specials are produced by the ‘cut and bond’ method and conform to BS4729. We also provide a complete range of angles, pistols, slips and bats, all prefabricated to your requirements.
Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) is a matrix of woven glass fibre sheets layered and set within resin; it has an excellent strength to weight ratio, and can be moulded into almost any shape and size with highly detailed textures, finishes and unlimited colours.
These lightweight prefabricated solutions require little to no reinforcement in situ, and are manufactured at our in-house facilities to the highest standards using a unique process that gives us the fastest supplier times in the market.
As a lightweight alternative to brick or block construction, our Bricklite panels offer a quick and easy cladding solution. The wall panels are made to in-fill places on a building’s exterior or interior that cannot be brick or stone built due to the shape, details of the house build or structural concerns. They replicate perfectly the appearance of full brick or stone wall cladding, with less weight and less hassle.
Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) is a matrix of woven glass fibre sheets layered and set within resin. For housebuilding projects where there is no scope for brick, block or structural canopies, our GRP porch canopy solutions can be the perfect solution.
Lightweight and easy to install, our non-structural canopies make the perfect finishing touch to an outer doorway, and are available in a number of different sizes and specifications.
Further technical information is available to download from the BPi download library or from the Manufacturer’s own website.
Brickfab welcomes Nick Thomas-Symonds MP as it announces major new investment.
Brickfab welcomes Nick Thomas-Symonds MP as it announces major new investment after record year.
Nick Thomas-Symonds, MP and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade visited Brick Fabrication Ltd (Brickfab) in Pontypool recently. Brickfab has announced a major new investment following a record year in 2022. It saw the business pass the £5m turnover mark for the first time, along with a healthy increase in profitability.
Gareth Beale, Finance Director said “Brickfab is making further significant investments in new automation equipment as well as expanding its transport fleet to cope with the increased demand. Expenditure of more than £500,000 is planned in 2023”. This follows a similar investment in 2022 focusing on new product development, and expanding production space, following a record number of new orders. Brickfab operates from its 2.5-acre site in Pontypool and a factory in Stoke on Trent, in total it employs 80 people.
The latest is two new Iveco curtainside lorries supplied by Glenside Commercials which have been added to the fleet. The company has seen a big increase in the demand for its Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic range of products and these new lorries will distribute them throughout the UK.
Nick Thomas-Symonds said “I was delighted to visit Brickfab in Pontypool recently to see how their pre-fabricated building products are made, and how they can support an increase in housebuilding. Brickfab are an important and innovative local employer, and it was great to hear of their plans for further investment in their Torfaen facility.”
Nigel Watkins, Managing Director said, “conditions for the new housing market remain uncertain in the short term, however the need for new homes is greater than ever, this new investment will make sure Brickfab can supply the increased volume and the prospects for the business in the long term, are excellent”.
Pontypool Manufacturing Business Celebrates 25 Years in Business by Announcing a Record Order Book, Major Expansion and Job Creation Plans
Brick Fabrication Ltd, a manufacturer of prefabricated building products supplying UK house builders, has announced plans that will see the £5m business nearly double in size in the next few years.
The business currently employs 75 people, and the expansion plans will see the Pontypool base increase to over 45,000 sq ft to on the 2.5-acre site, to provide Brickfab with the space required to manufacture a new product range developed by the business during lockdown. The company expects to create a considerable number of new jobs.
Explaining their decision to undertake such an ambitious investment during the pandemic, Nigel Watkins, Managing Director said, “After twenty-five years we have started 2022 with a record order book for all of our products. Despite the last few years being tough for all manufacturing businesses, we took the decision to invest in the business during lock-down. A completely new product range has been developed with significant investment in rigorous testing and accreditation together with the new technologies needed to manufacture these products in volume. It has cost the business a lot of money and we are particularly grateful to both the Welsh Government and Torfaen CBC for their support and assistance. We believe it is money well-spent and is already paying dividends with the biggest forward order book in the company’s history.”
The expansion will also include the creation of a dedicated training centre for the composite technology involved in the manufacture of Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GRP) product ranges manufactured by the business that are proving very popular with the new home developers.
Matthew Younger, Director GRP said, “There hasn’t previously been a traditional glass fibre composites manufacturing base in Torfaen. We see this as an industry with a bright future and establishing the training centre will help people develop the skills they need to meet this demand, and learn the latest techniques we have developed as well as those learned and adapted from other industries such as automotive.”
Gareth Beale, Finance Director said, “For the company to bounce back from the last few years in such great shape and to commit to these expansion plans is a testament to all of the hard-working people who have made Brickfab the success it is today. Twenty-five years ago, the business was established to make it easier for house builders to build quickly, safely and at lower cost and the same is true of the new products we make today. As market leaders in many of our products, and with this latest round of awards and a strong financial position, the future looks bright for further expansion at Brickfab.”
Brickfab has recently been awarded the quality standard BS9001 and the environmental standard BS14001, reflecting the investment of solar panels and a review of the company’s future energy needs. With a ‘blue-chip’ customer base of the UK house builders, these quality and environmental standards give customers the confidence that Brickfab will continue to be an essential part of their national supply chain.
