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SCH Site Services managing
director Gary Finley (right)
with Stiller Warehousing and
Distribution commercial manager
Matthew Stiller on the site
of Stiller’s new 40,000 sq ft
warehouse.
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Melanie J. Rowland
“Keeping your workforce moving”
Aycliffe steel firm helps
Stiller expand again with
£750,000 warehouse
Steel company SCH Site Services is helping a large logistics firm to expand again with the
development of a £750,000 warehouse.
By Martin Walker
Stiller Warehousing and Distribution, based
on Aycliffe Business Park, is in the process of
constructing a new 40,000 sq ft warehouse
for its rapidly-expanding list of customers.
The latest development, standing at 10
metres tall, will store another 6,000 pallets
for the family-run firm.
The structure is an extension to an existing
40,000 sq ft warehouse, which opened
in September 2015, and further increases
Stiller’s warehousing capabilities across
its 20 acres of land at the heart of Aycliffe
Business Park.
And the project is supporting dozens of
local jobs in its construction.
Project managed by Darlington-based ADG
Architects with civil engineering support
from Durham-based BDN, its main contractor
is Hall Construction, based at nearby
Rushyford, which awarded Aycliffe-based
SCH a project to fabricate and erect its frame
using 90 tonnes of steel.
SCH, which has previously worked with
Hall Construction on the refurbishment
of buildings at PD Ports on Teesside,
completed the steel fabrication and erection
of the frame within eight weeks, and the
warehouse is expected to be fully completed
in the New Year.
SCH managing director Gary Finley said:
“We’re delighted to have worked on a project
so close to us in Newton Aycliffe which is
supporting several local employers.
“We fabricated the steel in-house at our
facility just around the corner from Stiller’s
site and erected it on site.
“The extension had to join an existing
warehouse which made it a little more
complex than a stand-alone shed and we
also had to design the end connections for
the structure, but we’re pleased we’ve been
able to work with one of our neighbours
in enabling their ambitious plans for future
growth.”
The new warehouse will take Stiller’s
recent investments in equipment, people and
property to more than £6.4m in the last three
years.
The firm has invested heavily in a fleet
of new trailers and spent £1.1m on a new
warehouse which increased its warehousing
capacity by nearly 50%, while further cash
was ploughed into two new external storage
areas, totalling 32,000 sq ft, earlier this year.
Commercial manager Matthew Stiller said:
“Nearly all of our space is allocated to clients
at the moment, which is a great position to
be in.
“This latest development is a speculative
build, but we’re confident there’ll be fairly
high demand for the space, and we very
much like working with local companies.
“SCH have done an exceptional job.
There’s been no hold up, despite a bit of bad
weather, so we’re very happy with the work
they’ve done.”
As well as the Stiller project, SCH is
currently working on the Cello factory
extension in Bishop Auckland for Wharton
Construction, the refurbishment of an
existing structure in Barrow-in-Furness for
MGL, roof structure strengthening work
at Nissan in Washington for Sir Robert
McAlpine and the Belvedere retail pods
at Kingston Park in Newcastle for Brims
Construction.
Earlier this year, SCH completed
a 350-tonne project working on intu
Metrocentre’s new Qube II extension in
Gateshead for main contractor Sir Robert
McAlpine as well as another project for intu
at Eldon Square in Newcastle.
Formed in 2006, SCH first operated as a
crane hire company with four mobile cranes
and four drivers working for local companies,
but it grew into steelwork and in 2011
recorded a turnover of £325,000.
After moving into new premises in 2012,
sales grew to £2.2m and then £3.43m before
hitting £4.1m in 2013, £4.1m in 2014 and
£4.5m in 2015, while staff numbers have also
doubled to 40 in the last four years.
As well as Hall Construction, SCH also
boasts Sir Robert McAlpine, B&K Structures,
Wates Group, Interserve, Peikko and Balfour
Beatty among its impressive client list.
For more details about SCH, go to
www.schsiteservices.co.uk or call them
on 01325 327149.