Sheffield Forgemasters has been granted planning permission to build a landmark 30,000 m²
machining facility on brownfield land in the City’s Meadowhall district. Located on a 16-acre
plot at Weedon Street, the company says the new facility will form one of the world’s most
advanced large machining facilities to support UK defence manufacturing programmes.
With work to prepare the site already underway, the building will cover a space equal to 12
Olympic-sized swimming pools and contain large WaldrichSiegen five-axis vertical turning
lathes installed and maintained by McDowell Machine Tools. Plans for the facility detail a
main building with a 272.5 x 110 m footprint, standing 32 m tall, located close to the River
Don and designed to complement the historic look of the company’s existing buildings.
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