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Inside the F Brazil factory at Canvey Island: two red pile cage machines either side of the bay, under a gantry crane

Strength in Depth.

Pile cages, diaphragm wall cages and cut and bent rebar for UK piling and foundation contractors, made in Essex and Derbyshire and delivered on our own fleet.

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  • CARES Approved
  • FPS Audited Supplier
  • Independent Since 2007

Supplying Contractors Including

  • Bachy Soletanche
  • Bauer
  • Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering
  • Cementation Skanska
  • Central Piling
  • Expanded Piling
  • Hegarty
  • Morrisroe
  • Murphy
  • Sisk
  • Van Elle

From Loose Bar to Finished Cage.

One supplier for the whole reinforcement package, fabricated under factory conditions and delivered ready to place.

Prefabricated pile cages laid out on a riverside site in London, ready to be lifted

Pile Cages

Built on our own cage machines in a wide range of lengths and diameters. Every cage is labelled, with splice bars tied in and a layout drawing for placing.

D-Wall

Diaphragm Wall Cages

Hand-fixed cages for basements, shafts and retaining walls, made in the fabrication bays at our Charfleets Road site.

An F Brazil operator at the controls of a bar bending machine

Cut and Bent Rebar

8 mm to 50 mm bar to BS 8666, from CARES approved mills, cut on fully automated multi-bar shear lines.

Slabs, Decks and Wind Farm Bases

RollMats

Bar carpets made for each pour, craned in and rolled out by hand. Up to 80% less time and labour than loose bar.

Lenton and GRIPTEC

Mechanical Couplers

nVent Lenton and Dextra GRIPTEC threaded and swaged connections as standard, at Canvey Island and Woodville.

A pile cage machine in the F Brazil factory

Caps, Beams and Columns

Pile caps, ground beams, columns, walls and heavy mats, MIG welded in the factory and delivered ready to lift.

Also from stock: tying wire, spacers, chairs, safety caps and beam form.

A long pile cage on an F Brazil flatbed trailer outside the factory at Canvey Island

Capacity That Keeps Rigs Turning.

Three factories under gantry cranes: two at Canvey Island for London and the South East, and one at Woodville for the Midlands and the North.

Cut and bent rebar a week
3,000t
Prefabricated cages a week
800t
Coupler connections a week
24,000
Square feet under gantry cranes
260,000

Typical maximum weekly output across our three sites.

Canvey Island, Essex

Romainville Way

Cut and bent rebar on two shifts, coupler threading and a fully automated multi-bar shear line.

2,000 t a week

Canvey Island, Essex

Charfleets Road

Our group head office and prefabrication works: multiple pile cage machines and space for hand-fixed D-wall cages.

500 t of cages a week

Woodville, South Derbyshire

Woodville

A 12.5-acre site holding deep stock, with cut and bent, couplers and our northern cage shop. Added in 2021.

1,000 t cut and bent and 300 t of cages a week

A crawler crane and a red piling rig on a foundation site, with a pile cage being lifted

Fixed in the Factory. Placed in Hours.

Prefabrication moves the slow, risky work off your site and into ours.

  • Hours, Not Days

    A semi-skilled crew can place a prefabricated cage in a few hours, where loose bar takes a day or two.

  • Less Work at Height

    Loads can be pre-slung in our yard, so nobody climbs onto the wagon to sling them on site.

  • Ready to Place

    Every cage is labelled, splice bars are loose-tied inside and a layout drawing comes with the load.

  • Tracked to the Kilogram

    Barcode scanning at every step means each delivery note tallies with the steel on the wagon.

Schedules In. Steel on Site.

Four steps from your bar bending schedules to steel in the ground, with one team answering for all of them.

  1. Send Your Schedules

    Email your bar bending schedules and drawings, or use the form. We price them and agree the programme.

  2. Agree Your Call-Offs

    Schedules go into our rebar management system and your call-offs are booked against the programme.

  3. Made and Checked

    Cut, bent and welded under gantry cranes, then scanned and labelled bundle by bundle before loading.

  4. Delivered on Our Fleet

    FORS compliant artics, rigids and Hiabs, GPS tracked and phased to your sequence on tight sites.

Standard call-off from receipt of schedules

  • 5 daysCut and Bent
  • 7 daysPrefabricated Cages
  • 10 daysD-Wall Cages
  • 10 daysRollMats

Need it sooner? Ask about our express service.

Quality You Can Check.

Steel from CARES approved mills, fabrication under CARES certification and an independent audit by the Federation of Piling Specialists.

  • FPS Reinforcement Supplier AuditOne of four audited suppliers listed by the FPS
  • FORS Compliant FleetArtics, rigids and Hiabs, all GPS tracked
  • BS 8666 Cut and Bent8 mm to 50 mm, stock lengths 12, 14 and 15 m
  • CARES product certification mark, certificate 070801, with the UKAS product certification mark
    Product CertificationCARES certificate 070801
  • CARES sustainability certification mark, certificate 1352, with the UKAS product certification mark
    SustainabilityCARES certificate 1352
  • CARES environmental management certification mark, certificate 1342, with the UKAS environmental management mark
    Environmental ManagementCARES certificate 1342
The F Brazil team building a pile cage in the long bay at Woodville, South Derbyshire, beside a cage machine

Independent Since 2007.

Francis Brazil founded the company at Canvey Island in 2007. A second Canvey site followed in 2016, then Woodville in 2021, where we recruited for more than 100 new roles.

Every site is run by experienced reinforcement people, from the shop floor to senior management, with the capacity to carry several demanding contracts at once.

Directors: Francis Brazil and John Fitzgerald

Questions Buyers Ask.

Something else? Call the sales office or send your schedules and we will come back to you.

01268 512061sales@fbrazilreinforcements.co.uk

What bar sizes and lengths do you supply?

Bar from 8 mm to 50 mm (50 mm subject to mill availability), in stock lengths of 12, 14 and 15 metres. Special lengths from 6 to 18 metres can be supplied, subject to mill rollings.

How quickly can you deliver?

Our standard call-off periods run from receipt of schedules: 5 days for cut and bent, 7 days for prefabricated cages and 10 days for D-wall cages and RollMats. For urgent work, ask about our express service.

Are you CARES approved?

Yes. We hold CARES product certification for cut and bent reinforcement and fabrication, and CARES sustainability and environmental management certification. All our reinforcing steel comes from CARES approved mills, and certificates are available on request.

Do you deliver nationwide?

Yes, on our own fleet of FORS compliant artics, rigids and Hiabs, all GPS tracked. Crane offload is available on some rigids, depending on bar lengths and tonnage, so please ask when you order.

Can deliveries be phased for a tight site?

Yes. Deliveries can be phased to an agreed programme, which helps on tight and restricted sites. We also offer materials planning and tracking, and site storage.

Do you supply couplers and accessories?

Yes. nVent Lenton and Dextra GRIPTEC couplers are offered as standard, alongside tying wire, rebar safety caps, concrete spacers, chairs, beam form and other fixing accessories.

Send Us Your Schedules.

Tell us about the job and attach your schedules if you have them. We will price them and confirm call-offs, usually within one working day.

  • CARES approved cut and bent and fabrication
  • Audited by the Federation of Piling Specialists
  • Our own fleet, phased to your programme
01268 512061 sales@fbrazilreinforcements.co.uk

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