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Raisco construction manager
Dene Gregory (left) with Sutton
Tankers operations manager
Darren Mathieson (centre) and Paul
Stiller, managing director of Stiller
Warehousing and Distribution which
owns the Stockton site.
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Raisco helps Teesside
haulage firm’s expansion
Two Newton Aycliffe companies have joined forces to help a major Teesside-based
international logistics company expand its premises.
By Martin Walker
The construction division of Aycliffe-based
Raisco has completed a £250,000 expansion
and refurbishment of a 7,700 square metre
lorry park at Suttons Tankers in Stockton.
The land, owned by Aycliffe firm Stiller
Warehousing and Distribution, has almost
doubled Suttons’ hard standing area for its
250-fleet of lorries while also making safety
and environmental improvements.
The site previously consisted of loose
hard standing with no drainage. Raisco has
refurbished more than 4,500 square metres
of heavy duty block paving and introduced
new tarmac and concrete hard standing,
while new drainage and a state-of-the-art
petrol interceptor have also been installed.
Work began on June 20 and was
completed by the end of September.
Raisco, which predominantly takes on
steel fabrication and major construction
contracts up and down the country, says the
project is testament to the firm’s versatile
capabilities.
Construction manager Dene Gregory said:
“The new site will vastly improve congestion
currently experienced on the current site at
Sutton Tankers while vastly increasing on-site
parking and storage capacity.
“While we handle major steel contracts
the length and breadth of Great Britain, our
construction division continues to grow and
we were delighted to work with two local
firms on a project which will enable Sutton
Tankers to expand its Teesside operations in
the future.”
Stiller Warehousing and Distribution,
which currently operates from a 23-acre
head office complex on Aycliffe Business
Park, owns the nine-acre Suttons site in
Stockton as well as a three-acre site in the
West Midlands.
Managing director Paul Stiller says the
company saw this Teesside project as an
important investment.
“We’re delighted to have been part of this
project and to assist our valuable tenants
in order for them to be able to expand,” he
said.
“The site is in a prime location on Preston
Farm industrial estate and we’re always
looking for ways to improve the standards
and safety standards of all our properties.
“We’re delighted with the standard of the
work carried out by Raisco. The company
is based just around the corner from us
in Newton Aycliffe, which shows that we
always try to use local companies and
suppliers whenever possible.
“This is a fine example of two Aycliffe
companies coming together on a project and
doing a great job for our clients.”
Suttons Tankers is part of the Suttons
Group, a multi-national haulage and logistics
firm which has sites in the UK, Germany,
Belgium and around the world.
Its Stockton operations manager
Darren Mathieson said: “This is a major
development for Suttons which is going to
benefit us hugely going forward.
“This is the biggest site within the Suttons
group, which has 250 tankers going in and
out of our depot on a daily basis, so to have
all this extra space is going to make improve
our operations and hopefully make us more
efficient.”
Since being formed more than nine years
ago, Raisco has rapidly grown into one of
the country’s leading construction and steel
fabrication firms, diversifying from purely
a structural steel company to having the
ability to provide a full construction turnkey
package.
It now works with clients up and down the
country and has delivered a wide range of
fabrication and secondary steelwork projects
for many of the construction industry’s wellknown main contractors as well as turnkey
solutions for end-user clients.
Find out more about Raisco at
www.raisco.co.uk