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21/01/2025
British Steel Opens New £26m Service Centre
British Steel has opened a new £26million service centre, establishing itself as one of the world's leading suppliers to the forklift truck mast industry.
The investment has been made at its Special Profiles business in Skinningrove, in the North East of England, which specialises in manufacturing steel profiles for the earth moving, forklift, construction, shipbuilding, and mining markets.
It will enable British Steel to explore growth opportunities across the globe for its standard and bespoke forklift mast profiles, with the new warehousing and processing facility forecast to significantly increase throughput within the next two years.
Richard Napier, British Steel's Sales Director, Special Profiles, said: "This is the largest single investment in our Special Profiles business for more than 30 years, demonstrating our owner’s commitment to strengthening British Steel’s position at the heart of UK manufacturing.
"The new facility also firmly establishes us as one of the world’s leading manufacturers and processors of value-added profiles for the forklift industry. Our extended range of products are designed and manufactured to exact customer requirements, with the new milling capability offering profiles with tolerances of just 0.1mm – precision few global competitors can match.
"We have already had extremely positive feedback about this investment from current customers, and potential new ones, and although our primary product offering will be for forklift mast profiles, we expect to expand this to include other product applications too."
The facility, called the Skinningrove Service Centre, includes four new CNC lathes for turning mill rolls, three automated bandsaws for cutting stock to exact lengths, a laser measurement system for process control of every bar rolled and a warehousing system for storing and processing material from the rolling mill. It also incorporates one of the finest large-capacity, 14-metre bed, milling machines in the world, enabling British Steel to deliver precise customer requirements to very tight tolerances.
The investment has been made at its Special Profiles business in Skinningrove, in the North East of England, which specialises in manufacturing steel profiles for the earth moving, forklift, construction, shipbuilding, and mining markets.
It will enable British Steel to explore growth opportunities across the globe for its standard and bespoke forklift mast profiles, with the new warehousing and processing facility forecast to significantly increase throughput within the next two years.
Richard Napier, British Steel's Sales Director, Special Profiles, said: "This is the largest single investment in our Special Profiles business for more than 30 years, demonstrating our owner’s commitment to strengthening British Steel’s position at the heart of UK manufacturing.
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"The new facility also firmly establishes us as one of the world’s leading manufacturers and processors of value-added profiles for the forklift industry. Our extended range of products are designed and manufactured to exact customer requirements, with the new milling capability offering profiles with tolerances of just 0.1mm – precision few global competitors can match.
"We have already had extremely positive feedback about this investment from current customers, and potential new ones, and although our primary product offering will be for forklift mast profiles, we expect to expand this to include other product applications too."
The facility, called the Skinningrove Service Centre, includes four new CNC lathes for turning mill rolls, three automated bandsaws for cutting stock to exact lengths, a laser measurement system for process control of every bar rolled and a warehousing system for storing and processing material from the rolling mill. It also incorporates one of the finest large-capacity, 14-metre bed, milling machines in the world, enabling British Steel to deliver precise customer requirements to very tight tolerances.
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