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Due to continued expansion Steve Vick International are delighted to announce the opening of a new depot in Leigh, Greater Manchester. With the strategic growth of the Nuclear side of the business, SVI have been searching for a depot in the North of England to better serve both the company’s gas and nuclear clients.  The depot in Leigh was chosen particularly for its meeting facilities...

Steve Vick International have been designing pipe cutters and crackers to improve the safety of gas engineers on site and the wider general public for two decades. The more traditional hand held methods of cracking and smashing pipe, including the podger bar and sledgehammer are hazardous and have been long associated with causing injury to the workforce. SVI’s innovative product range has...

Steve Vick International are delighted to announce that they achieved 100% in all categories for their recent Achilles UVDB Verify Audit. The audit took place over two days and covered Quality, Health & Safety, Environment, and Corporate Social Responsibility.  On the first day the auditors accompanied the SVI Contract Service team onsite.  They observed a Rapid Window Cutting operation...

Steve Vick International are delighted to announce that Nicole Fever, R&D Technician Apprentice has won two awards in recognition of her outstanding commitment to her studies throughout her Level 4 Higher Engineering Apprenticeship in Manufacturing. Nicole was firstly awarded Engineering Apprentice but then went on to win the highly prestigious Outstanding Apprentice of the Year at the...

Steve Vick International (SVI) have been supplying innovative Pipe Handlers to the gas, water and nuclear industries for over a decade. It all started in 2008 when SVI worked in collaboration with National Grid Gas, now Cadent, to produce a digger mounted Pipe Handler that could handle pipe up to 355mm in diameter. The project was IFI funded and the brief was to design a Pipe Handler that...

Steve Vick International, in collaboration with Northern Gas Networks, have entered the UK Energy Innovation Awards 2019 and are delighted to be shortlisted for two categories, Best Innovation – Gas and Best Gas Network Improvement for the Enhanced SEAL technique. Enhanced SEAL, a collaborative project between Steve Vick International and Northern Gas Networks, is an innovative technique...

Wales & West Utilities along with its long term contracting partner, Morrison Utility Services (MUS) has been successfully working on a highly innovative ‘Live’ Live Mains Insertion (LMI) project to replace approximately 4,200m of 12” cast iron with 250mm P.E in Wickwar, Bristol.  The project included a record breaking insertion, for large diameter PE pipe, of 1,014m; a total of 84 x...

Steve Vick International is contributing towards the fundraising efforts of eight intrepid skydivers from Goodson Lodge Care Centre in Trowbridge, operated by The Orders of St John Care Trust. On Thursday, 20th June, five members of staff and three family members from the centre are doing a sponsored skydive from Old Sarum in Salisbury, Wiltshire. They have chosen to jump from either 10,000ft...