The William Cook group, based in Sheffield, has cast the first of up to 50 record-breaking steel supports for a flagship new viaduct to be employed by the Paris Metro system.

A cast steel column is being developed to support the 600m-long viaduct and elevated metro station in a multi-million project led by French architect Marc Mimram and the Parisian transport agency RATP. Weighing in at as much as 12 tonnes and up to 7m tall, the columns are the largest castings ever poured at William Cook’s Sheffield foundry.
A pair of full-size prototypes has already been cast by the company.
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