Case Study: Supporting Safer Pipe Handling with Heartland Pipelines Ltd

July 17, 2025

Following a successful trial with Heartland Pipelines Ltd on a Severn Trent Water contract, a new Steve Vick International (SVI) COILControl unit has been delivered to Heartland Pipelines — making them the first water contractor to purchase and implement the SVI COILControl system. This innovative solution will support the company’s ongoing water infrastructure work, including a 20km...
Find out more

Enhancing Safety and Efficiency in Sewage Pipe Installation with CoilControl

November 11, 2024

Project Overview Recently, Envolve Infrastructure worked in partnership with Wessex Water on an essential sewer relief project in Winterbourne, Bristol. The project, aimed at mitigating the risk of environmental contamination, involved the installation of a 160mm sewage pipe beneath a river using directional drilling. The project required both safety & efficiency as the team worked alongside...
Find out more

SVI Supports Anglian Water with one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe

March 6, 2023

The Steve Vick International Contract Services team recently assisted Anglian Water, through JN Bentley, in a project which involved building a new network of interconnecting water pipelines from Lincoln to Grantham. The 34 km section starts south of Lincoln, near Waddington, and ends near Harrowby, east of Grantham. This project is part of a bigger project with Anglian Water to create...
Find out more

Anglian Water Improve Safety with the Steve Vick International Hexi Trailer

January 27, 2022

Steve Vick International were asked by Anglian Water to demonstrate their Hexi Pipe Coil Trailer. Following a successful demonstration, Gary Jackson, Senior Delivery Agent IMR Water, commented: “After using the Steve Vick Hexi Trailer, the team expressed to me, that moving forward, wherever we are installing up to 125mm pipe by directional drilling or insertion, they would be far happier...
Find out more

Steve Vick International Assist Gedling Country Park to Install an Overspill Tank

January 4, 2022

Steve Vick International’s Contract Service team recently gifted their time and resources to assist The Friends of Gedling Country Park, (FGCP) in Nottingham, on a project to install an overspill tank. The FGCP had an issue with reeds clogging up one of their ponds and despite numerous attempts to clear the reeds, they rapidly grew back. When considering their options, research indicated...
Find out more

Wessex Water Use SVI Pipe Handler

November 3, 2020

Wessex Water Services Ltd recently used the Steve Vick International Pipe Handler when replacing a 1km stretch of existing riser main with 280mm high pressure PE. The regional water and sewerage company, which serves 2.8 million customers across the south west of England used directional drilling to replace the sewerage pipe which ran across farmer’s fields on the outskirts of Salisbury. ...
Find out more

Steve Vick Keel Cutters Used For Ugandan Water Project

March 27, 2019

Steve Vick International (SVI) have exported three N600 Keel Cutters to Uganda to carry out work on a large, high profile project designed to improve the living conditions of the residents of Kampala through provision of a safe and reliable water supply and improved sanitation until 2040. Safety was a high priority for the project and it was felt by the contractors that Steve Vick...
Find out more

Planned Maintenance Planning Pipe Cutting 20m Down

August 25, 2017

Planned Maintenance (Pennine) Ltd (PMP Utilities) have purchased a Keel Cutter from Steve Vick International (SVI) to help them fulfil a contract with Thames Water which involves cutting a water main 20m underground. The automatic pipe cutter will be used to cut a redundant 760mm (30 inch) ductile iron, cement lined water pipe with a 20mm wall thickness. The pipe is located in a 40m long...
Find out more

SVI Agent In The Netherlands Completes 4.5km Sliplining Project

April 24, 2017

Van Voskuilen Woudenberg B.V. has recently completed a mains renewal project for Vitens, the largest water supply company in The Netherlands, with the help of Steve Vick International (SVI) equipment. Van Voskuilen, who act as SVI’s sole agent in the Netherlands, inserted 4.5km of 90mm PE into a 4” asbestos main in Hardenberg in the east of the country. To aid safety and efficiency during...
Find out more

Wessex Water successfully replace 800m of ageing water pipe in just two days

January 5, 2017

Wessex Water Services Ltd has used the Steve Vick International (SVI) Hexi Trailer to insert 800m of new PE pipe into an old cast iron main, saving time, money and disruption to road users. The regional water and sewerage company, which serves 2.8 million customers across the south west of England, purchased six Hexi Trailers in 2013. The trailers have been put to good use ever since, and are...
Find out more

SVI DRAINBLOCK BAGS™ are used to decommission a swimming pool at a school in New Barnet, London.

August 26, 2015

Steve Vick International (SVI) is a leading specialist and UK manufacturer of pipe sealant products and techniques. One notably established SVI product is the DRAINBLOCK BAG™. The system implemented allows a disused lateral to be sealed-off using expanding polyurethane resin foam, remotely if needed. Once cured the bag seals the lateral at the point where it joins the downstream drain or sewer....
Find out more

Wessex Water Save Time And Resources Using The 90/500 Pipe Coil Trailer

April 20, 2015

After extensive research, Wessex Water selected the new trailers because they found them to dispense pipe very smoothly and quickly thanks to a hydraulically raised hexagonal central drum configuration. Wayne Johnson, explains, “With the trailers we were using we had to allocate two or three operatives to assist in dispensing the PE pipe but with these new trailers, the pipe comes off so...
Find out more