About Us

Trained as an Industrial Designer, Stewart was well placed to expand his experience into the oil industries of Scotland and the North Sea.  Training in Non Destructive Testing (NDT) and Quality Control (QC).  He designed the 20 tonne concrete castings used in the South Cormorant Oil Field to protect sea bed exposed cables and lines whilst a rig was repositioned.  He also designed concrete units for the flexible 26 mile long stainless steel pipeline in the South Cormorant Oil Field.

As an oil pipeline inspector, he was a British Gas ERS radiographer and an ultrasonics operator as well as an ERS painting inspector.

He also has decades of hands on experience at home and abroad: Europe, the Far East, Middle East and in Angola, West Africa.

Stewart was liaison officer for all site NDT and QC on what was at the time (1980-1981) the largest desalination power plant under construction in the world: Jeddah 4, Saudi Arabia.

He managed a workforce of over 200 Philippine painters in the Eastern Provinces of Saudi Arabia from Kuwait to the Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf, after Desert Storm 1992-1993.

Anti-corrosion projects have taken him to Europe, Holland and Germany, and the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Station near Heidelberg.

"There is a huge potential in the anti-corrosion specification field.  I often see avoidable serious damage on sites, due to simple bad practice.  On a recent trip to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, I produced a report into the massive waste and errors, problems caused simply by bad service or maintenance, and the destruction of sound coatings due to grinders not being shielded  whilst working or welding dissimilar metals to sound silo walls, crevice corrosion, etc.  All easily avoidable problems with a little knowledge and care and work planning.

I am always looking out for interesting projects, a plant, whether a grain plant or a petro-chemical plant, they are the same the world over, all with steel work rusting at a pace because anti-corrosion treatment comes low down on the list of importance.

I also have access to the technicians and paint and coatings manufacturers where I can design special coatings to suit various situations i.e quick dries, high builds, moisture tolerant, single or two pack with food certificate etc."

Big Six roofs and cladding.
It has been stated in the National Press that UK firms have paid £1.6bn to strip "harmless" white asbestos.  The government's own chief inspector of the UK asbestos watchdog says the "blue and brown" asbestos is a deadly carcinogen but up to 90% of all asbestos in the UK is "white asbestos" made from chrysotile fibres which are harmless.  "If we take a kilo of milled flour and turn it into a loaf of bread, it has become another product" likewise, Big Six has been through a process.

Asbestos may be the wrong word for what is chrysotile in the case of Big Six corrugated sheeting.

Roof Cleaning at Bairds Malt, Arbroath, Scotland, 2007.