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St Helens manufacturing firm — part of the world’s
largest steel company — is providing materials
for some of the country’s most prestigious building
projects...
Haironville
TAC, a leading supplier of roofing and cladding to the
building industry, counts B&Q and IKEA among its
clients and has secured contracts on major hospital
and school
building projects across the country.
The company, which relocated from Widnes to the Abbotsfield
Industrial Estate in St Helens in 1997, is part of the
Arcelor
Group, the world’s biggest steel producer. The
Arcelor Group was formed following the amalgamation
of three steel groups from
Spain, France and Luxembourg.
“We created around 25 jobs recently after investing
£1.5m in a new flat panel yield line,” explained
Managing Director Adrian Murphy,
who joined the company after a career with Pilkington.
The manufacturing plant, which employs 75 people and
has an annual turnover of £16 to 17m, buys in
steel coil from its parent
company and then roll forms and shapes the metal to
produce cladding and roofing panels.
Sometimes the panels are insulated or foam injected,
depending on the requirements of the client. The panels
are then sold to
cladding sub contractors.
“We are concentrating our efforts on commercial
projects such as hospitals and schools at the moment
including hospitals in
Coventry and Swindon and school development schemes
across the country,” explained Adrian.
“We have spent the last year consolidating the
business and, as the sole respresentative of Arcelor
Construction in this country, we
would like to invest further. We’ve received lots
of support from St Helens Chamber who have been very
helpful.”
Haironville TAC, which secured £250,000 in Objective
One funding early last year, also received its Investors
in People award and its
ISO quality assurance mark.
Adrian would now like to see the cluster of St Helens
manufacturing companies, who all provide products for
the building industry, working together. “There
is a natural synergy between us and I believe there
are lots of benefits to linking up that are not currently
being exploited,” he added.
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