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PSSA
Member News
ISSUE 7 April 2015
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NEWS
Two more heavyweights join Zaun
Zaun exports British security to French prison
British high security fencing manufacturer Zaun has exported its expertise across the Channel
to secure a prison in the north of France.
The PSSA member supplied almost 1000m of its
original HiSec security fencing with the popular
‘358’welded mesh configuration to repel would-
be intruders and keep residents secure within.
The system attributes make it an excellent
solution for high security applications, reflecting
in its use by the Home Office for UK prisons.
But unusually for the Longuenesse prison
in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern
France, the fencing is powder-coated white.
It gives the prison a more relaxed feel to
comparable English institutions, an impression
enhanced further by a MUGA and three rooftop
exercise areas with ball court and angled
fencing merged into the sloped roofing angles.
Zaun designed 6m high fencing with a crank
on top clad by 1mm thick steel sheet cladding
for the 215m of internal perimeters, then 450m
of 5m high fencing beyond a five-metre ‘dead
zone’ between the two fence lines.
The internal fence line included a half-metre
high 100mm thick concrete ‘kicker board’ sunk
250mm into the ground to prevent tunnelling.
Zaun also supplied special gates with
electronic locks automatically activated from
a central control room and HiSec cladding to
upstairs windows as part of the €200,000 fully
integrated system.
It all made for a highly unusual job for
Zaun, who worked on the €8.3m prison
for 85 residents alongside leading French
construction company Spie Batignolles,
which boasts annual revenues of €1.8 billion.
HiSec’s close mesh pattern means that
it is difficult to cut and almost impossible
to climb.
Zaun has made two more senior appointments
as the pace of change under sole executive
director Alastair Henman gathers pace.
Accomplished engineer Roberto Garziera
becomes production and factory manager
while mesh industry veteran Paul Fidgett joins
as internal sales manager.
Co-founder and director Alastair Henman
said: ‘Both of these appointments add
significantly to our management team,
bringing new knowledge, expertise and
experience to the company.
‘And there will be more to come soon as we
embark on the most exciting phase in our near
20-year history.’
Garziera has worked in a string of
technology-dependent manufacturing
businesses, using his extensive knowledge and
experience with machine, electromechanical
and PLC design to provide innovation in
engineering and improve productivity and
efficiencies in production.
His immediate tasks are to integrate a new
mesh welding line and coating process aimed at
the Middle East market, to conduct a feasibility
study into adding a V-Beam press to the welding
line and to innovate the loading of warped wire
drums onto the weaving machine and improve
its overall availability and efficiency.
His background is in machinery and
industrial product design and he holds a
number of patents on products and solutions
developed during his career.
Fidgett takes the role of internal sales
manager tasked with increasing Zaun’s general
fencing sales by 10% in his first year.
He has worked with mesh since 1979 on
applications as diverse as fencing, lagging
panels in mines, panels for materials handling,
screening, screeding, machine guarding, tree
guards, bird feeders and many more besides.
His career began at BRC with Weldmesh,
which was sold to Tinsley Wire and became
Betafence. He has also worked with Dirickx UK,
Gunnebo Group business Werra Fencing and
most recently, Citadel Security Products.