Crestchic Loadbanks, a UK-headquartered manufacturer of load testing equipment, has announced plans to extend its factory, adding 60% to the current site footprint, while also recruiting a further 30 people. Work is officially due to commence in August 2021, with an anticipated nine-month build time. The company, based in Burton-on-Trent, has bucked the trend during the recent pandemic, resulting in the need to expand and recruit new talent. Paul Brickman, sales and marketing director at Crestchic, says: “The investments we are making in our business will help to meet increased demand from our core sectors.”

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www.crestchicloadbanks.com

Leicester-based industrial supplies distributor, Cromwell, has been recognised as one of the UK’s best workplaces by workplace recognition programme, Great Place to Work. Cromwell, a global supplier of industrial tools and equipment, ranked 11 out of 33 in the super large category, which includes businesses with 1000 or more employees. The accolade is based on a rigorous evaluation process that takes both employee feedback and organisational practices into consideration. Cromwell scored 81% on the Trust Index employee survey, a key element of the process.

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Stainless Metalcraft has agreed to enter into stage two of its contract to provide circa 1000 3M3 boxes for Sellafield. The boxes are for storing intermediate level waste retrieved from silos at legacy locations in Cumbria. In environmental terms, the storage project represents one of the most positive and important intergenerational equity deliverables of the next few decades, developing and implementing critical technology to bequeath a pristine environment to posterity. The contract is now worth up to £70m, an approximate uplift of £20m against the original contract.

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www.metalcraft.co.uk

The manufacturer of the turbines and blades for what will be Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm has confirmed that 87% of the blades are set for production in the UK. Of the 114 V164 blade sets required for the 1075 MW Seagreen project, Vestas will produce 99 blade sets (or 297 blades in total) domestically, ready for installation off the Angus coast by the end of 2022. Production by Vestas is currently underway at its blade factory and R&D centre in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The Seagreen project is a £3bn joint venture project between TotalEnergies (51%) and SSE Renewables (49%).

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www.sserenewables.com

Kloeckner Metals has won a multi-million pound contract from BYLOR to produce embedment sleeves for the Hinkley Point C power station. Part of the global Klöckner & Co Group, Kloeckner Metals UK is a multi-metals processing supplier certified to Fit 4 Nuclear (F4N). This newly awarded contract will see Kloeckner Metals UK supply processed and coated embedment sleeves to tier-one contractor BYLOR, a Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues TP joint venture. Two local southwest businesses will assist Kloeckner Metals UK with the coating of the embedment sleeves.

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www.kloecknermetalsuk.com