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In Loving Memory of David Winn OBE

It is with profound sadness that we share the news that Company Chairman of Winn & Coales International Ltd, David Winn OBE, passed away on the 21st of September 2020.

David Winn, the grandson of founder Paul Winn, joined the company 55 years ago in 1965. He had a long and distinguished career at Winn & Coales, serving as Deputy Chairman from 1968-1991 and Managing Director from 1988-1995. When Frank Coales passed away in 1991, he became Chairman of the company and held this position for 29 years until his passing in September 2020.

During his time as Chairman of Winn & Coales International, the Group grew substantially with seven subsidiaries around the world and a network of dedicated distributors and agents. In the last decade, the Group won three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in International Trade, recognising its growth in world sales. These notable successes were achieved in 2010, 2015 and 2017.

David Winn had many wonderful and notable qualities, one that shone through was his charitable nature. He was awarded an OBE on the 12th of May, 1995 by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales for being a Governor of West Norwood College for 24 years and for successful fund raising for Eastbourne College.

He was also Chairman of the Trustees of the National Missing Persons Helpline for many years. David Winn hosted a variety of fundraisers at his residence in Twickenham, London for The Missing Persons Helpline and contributed a great amount of his time and resources to the Charity.

One of his passions was for his old school, Eastbourne College. He served as College Governor from 1982-2015, College Vice-President from 2016-2020, Chairman of the OEA from 1980-2001, President of the OEA from 2002-2012, and President of the Eastbournian Society from 2012-2020. He remains one of the College’s greatest benefactors and recently had a building on campus named after him in 2019. The Winn Building is a new, purpose-built facility featuring an array of state-of-the-art amenities.

David Winn had a large, joyful and generous personality with a fantastic sense of humour. He made the time for everyone in the company and enriched the lives of all who knew him. He was a truly remarkable man who leaves behind a great legacy; he leaves behind his much loved children and grandchildren; and he will be deeply missed by his colleagues, friends and family.

Winn & Coales International has only had three Chairman since it was established in 1883, quite remarkable for a company that has been trading for 137 years.  It remains a private, family owned company and the family are fully committed to ensuring his memory will live on through the business as they continue to follow his lead and take the company from strength to strength.

SeaShield™ Systems Provide Long-Term Protection for Jetty Piles at Ullapool Harbour

In 2020, Shearwater Marine Services were awarded a contract to install protection for jetty piles at Ullapool Harbour in the Scottish Highlands, on behalf of The Ullapool Harbour Trust.

As consulting engineers on the project, Wallace Stone specified the use of SeaShield™ Systems supplied by Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd to protect the jetty piles. SeaShield Systems have an extensive history of providing long-term corrosion protection to marine structures.

Shearwater Marine Services used a combination of the SeaShield 2000FD™ and SeaShield 70™ Systems on the piles and various supporting crossbeams on the structure. SeaShield 2000FD consists of Denso Paste S105™, Denso Marine Piling Tape™ and an outer HDPE jacket, which is hydraulically tensioned before being secured with stainless steel fixings. The SeaShield 70 System was used to protect the crossbeams and is an excellent option on areas where piles have obstructions. This system consists of Denso Paste S105™, Denso Profiling Mastic™, Denso Marine Piling Tape™ and Denso Glass Outerwrap 70™.

Denso P2 System™ Used in Refurbishment of Old Water Pumping Station

As part of United Utilities water quality improvement programme, JMC North West Ltd, on behalf of NMCN, recently completed works to bury the above ground timing loop at the Pex Hill Service Reservoir. The challenge was to provide a durable, reliable corrosion prevention solution to protect over 90 double flanged joints prior to full encapsulation. To provide this high level of protection, JMC North West Ltd turned to Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd for their services.

Winn & Coales recommended their Denso P2 System™, proven to effectively protect ferrous pipes, joints and fittings from the costly effects of corrosion. Fully compliant with the P2 Civil Engineering Specifications for the Water Industry (7th Edition), this time-proven system can be easily applied on-site before the pipe is buried – providing long-term corrosion prevention for the project at Pex Hill. The Denso P2 System incorporates Denso Primer D™, Denso Profiling Mastic™ and Densoclad™ Tape. Training on how to apply the system was provided, on-site, by two members of the Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd team.

SeaShield 2000FD™ Protects Tiree Pierhead

George Leslie Ltd were recently awarded the contract for refurbishment works on the Tiree Pierhead on the Island of Tiree. Due to the awkward shape of some of the jetty piles, the required surface preparation needed for a protective liquid coating system was not possible. They therefore discussed an alternative method for providing corrosion prevention to the jetty piles with Winn and Coales (Denso) Ltd.

Winn and Coales (Denso) Ltd proposed the use of the Denso SeaShield 2000FD™ System with additional fillet pieces to accommodate the awkward shape of the piles. The Denso SeaShield 2000FD system, which had been used on a similar application previously, provides long-term corrosion prevention without the need for intensive surface preparation, thus providing an effective solution for use on the piles in their exposed environment.

Oyster Farm Reaps the Benefits of Denso™ Tape

Woodstown Bay Shellfish (WBS) Ltd, based in the South East of Ireland, run one of Ireland’s largest oyster growing and exporting companies. The family-owned business uses several tractors on an inter-tidal area of Woodstown Beach where the oysters are farmed in the ‘A’ class waters of the Waterford Estuary. The oysters are harvested by the tractors and trailers and transported back to the WBS factory in Dunmore East Harbour for processing.

In order to protect critical parts of the machinery from the corrosive marine environment, and to make sensitive electronics watertight, WBS Ltd have found that Denso™ Tape performs better than anything else they have tried over more than 20 years. Its versatile nature, along with being long-lasting and easy-to-apply in less than ideal application conditions, makes it an extremely reliable and cost-effective solution to WBS Ltd’s problems.

Winn and Coales (Denso) Ltd are leaders in corrosion prevention and sealing technologies and have been supplying Denso Tape for 90 years. This application demonstrates how effective Denso Tape is when used in harsh environments and in unusual application situations.

Denso SeaShield Protection at Douglas Harbour I.O.M.

Winn and Coales (Denso) Ltd recently supplied SeaShield™ Systems for the protection of Marine Piles at Douglas Harbour on the Isle of Man.

The initial contract secured by BAM was for the protection of 16 Piles on Berth number 5 and Bam’s sub-contractor, Teignmouth Maritime Services installed the SeaShield 2000FD™ and Seashield 80™ Systems to the piles.

In addition to the original contract, BAM negotiated with the client to install additional protection using the SeaShield 100™ System to Walkway Piles which had been partially protected with the system several years earlier.

Winn and Coales (Denso) Ltd’s SeaShield™ systems offer the most comprehensive range of long-term corrosion control solutions for jetty piles and marine structures.