Barnshaws Section Benders is famous for bending metal, but this Christmas the Tividale based business received a call from the elves of the North Pole to bend a more festive material. After Rudolph broke into the candy department and ate all the stock, the elves realised they had no candy canes left for the big day. With Christmas only weeks away, and no time to bend the candy in-house, the elves contacted Barnshaws to bend 500 tonnes of straight candy canes before the deadline of the 25th December.

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Aluminium louvres have become a mainstay of modern architecture, ensuring that excessive sunlight does not adversely affect the interior environment of a structure. However, as architectural design has become more freeform, increased demand has been placed on louvres to seamlessly integrate with these new aesthetics. As a result, increased intricacies have seen the advent of bending aluminium louvre profiles, a demanding process that is only too familiar to Barnshaws Section Benders of Tividale.

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The pressures of the construction industry demand efficient and innovative solutions to meet construction deadlines and provide a modern, desirable finished structure. Reducing the overall weight of structures has been a large part of this continued innovation, with the structural beam an element that has been pushed to the forefront of this revolution.

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Barnshaws Section Benders is a company many would associate with construction, but the Tividale based metal fabrication and bending experts have also been getting involved in another kind of development. Barnshaws has been helping to develop the local community, having raised £1060 for various local charities, all from a single snack cupboard!

The initiative took off 2 years ago when Barnshaws replaced their vending machine with a snack cupboard for employees. The snacks proved to be popular, and shortly after it was suggested to slightly increase prices and donate the profits to local charities.

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As part of the £70 million redevelopment of Longbridge town centre, the developer has constructed a new superstore for Marks & Spencer that is to be one of the largest in the country. The adjoining car park has been constructed from steel with the roof and floor sections being curved by Barnshaws metal bending to ensure sufficient strength and controlled water runoff. The work was carried out for specialist steelwork contractor James Killelea Limited

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