A NORTH-EAST company is helping to ensure that Chelsea Football Club has a solid defence from strikes from well outside of the box.
Chelsea, complete with lightning-quick new striker Fernando Torres, have signed up Stone Technical Services to install a lightning protection system at its training ground in Cobham, Surrey.
The high-level maintenance firm has won contracts worth £200,000 to install systems, including the one for Chelsea.
The London team signed Spain striker Torres in a £50m deal this week.
In addition, Stone is fitting a lightning protection system at Stonewall Park House, in Kent, for the nephew of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming; improving the system at ADM Erith’s Kent manufacturing plant; working on 158 residential properties in North London and Essex, and a grade II-listed art deco residential block, in Richmond, Surrey; and a Premier Inn, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Managing director Dave Stone, who has run the Darlington- based firm with brother Grahame since 1998, said: “Lightning protection installation is a major growth area for us. Any data and information stored on computer systems is extremely vulnerable and lightning can cause significant damage.”
The Kellaw Road company is responsible for the maintenance of some of Britain’s most important buildings, including St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. It employs 27 at its headquarters in Darlington and offices in London and Middlesex.
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