Hi 

Hope this news story about a quarter of a million pound investment in Widnes will be of interest to your readers.

Hutchinson Engineering is a diverse and growing company - and would make an interesting subject for a feature. Can I give you a call to talk this through?

Best wishes

Amanda

PS. I've got a nice photo of the roller in situ in the factory, should you want a piccy.
 
Amanda Jackson
Tigerfish PR
01254 851 680/ 07881 62 1143
   

Hutchinson invests £250,000 in Sertom rollers

Speciality engineer Hutchinson has invested £250,000 in adding the ability to roll steel with precision to its Widnes facility. 

The rollers will be used to shape steel for the company's range of wind turbine towers. The first projects using the rollers were completed immediately after installation and many more are due to follow in the coming weeks and months. 

 Hutchinson built the extra functionality into its site, which required strengthening the property and lowering part of a floor, so that it could manage quality control in-house.

The installation followed a thorough research project, which resulted in the purchase of Sertom Bull 30/50 4 rollers capable of handling S355 up to 42mm at over 3m wide.

Hutchinson, engineers for more than three decades, specialises in wind turbine towers, producing hundreds of structures since 2007 for companies such as Evance, Xzeres Wind, Nova Wind, Harbon, Quiet Revolution, Bergey and Kingspan.

Earlier this year, Hutchinson installed a grit blast facility at a cost of £500,000 and recruited five new employees. This followed an investment of more than £2m last year in a new factory with 25 new staff to expand its wind turbine capabilities.

Neal Scrivener, business development director at Hutchinson said: "The purchase and installation of the Sertom rollers is another sizeable investment by Hutchinson, but bringing the production in-house is the best way to guarantee work is completed to the very highest standards.

"The level of skills our engineers hold and the precision equipment we have invested in cements our position as the leading British manufacturer of wind turbine towers."

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Hutchinson Engineering, based in Widnes, Cheshire, is a manufacturer of steel structures for the wind energy and telecoms sectors.

www.hutchinsonengineering.co.uk

Issued by: Amanda Jackson, Tigerfish PR, 01254 851 680, Amanda@tigerfishpr.co.uk