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BUILDING WITH STEEL: BRITON FABRICATORS

Strength In Depth
Capable of design, build, installation and refurbishment,
Briton Fabricators has emerged as one of the UK’s most
respected steelwork solution providers.
ow boasting turnover in

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cating steel for the oil refinery market out of

excess of £14m, Briton

a 200m² workshop in Kirkby-in-Ashfield

Fabricators Ltd has

before growth necessitated a move to bigger

emerged as one of the

premises in 1978. This saw the production

UK’s most respected

of the company’s first gantry which was

steelwork solution providers. Capable of

installed on the M25 at junction 1. Further

design, build, installation and refurbish-

development saw Briton extend its capabil-

ment, the company is a specialist in the pro-

ity, diversifying into other construction

vision of sign and signal gantries, pedestri-

including stations steelwork, airport links

an footbridges, road and rail bridges, tem-

and blast proof barriers.

porary works, station steelwork, access

Exampling its development, Briton’s

ramps and stairs. However, its diverse

Plant 1 at Hucknall, Nottingham started

expertise does not stop there, allowing it to

with a 450m² bay before a second bay was

confidently tackle many other forms of

added in 1980, increasing floor space to

steelwork. Indeed, more recently it has been

over 900m². By this time, the business was

involved in a number of projects for the

a market-leading provider of bridges and

provision of overhead line structures for

gantries allowing it to expand further,

electrification works.

adding a third bay in the early nineties to

Established in 1973, Briton began fabri-

increase floor space to 1600m².

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Briton has one
of the largest
manufacturing
facilities in the
country dedicated
to infrastructure
engineering