FINLEY STRUCTURES WINS 836-TONNE PROJECT FOR NISSAN’ S EXPANDING CAR PLANT

Finley Structures have won another major contract at Japanese firm Nissan’ s expanding North-East car manufacturing plant.

The family-run steel firm was awarded an 836-tonne contract from Sir Robert McAlpine to work on the new press shop at the Washington site. It comes after Finley Structures completed the steel frame for Nissan’ s new factory which is now manufacturing its new Infiniti range, as part of a 1,300-tonne contract. This latest project for McAlpine involved constructing a 22 metre-tall press shop and panel store covering 6,300 square metres of floor area. Finley Structures had to fabricate 38-metre clear span trusses and 1,800mm-deep plate girder crane beams as part of the complex operation.“ It’ s a very difficult, challenging project, as we’ re having to erect the structure around a very large excavation area,” says Finley’ s operations manager Jim Graham.“ But it continues to showcase our capability as a major fabricator – and we’ re delighted to be working with Sir Robert McAlpine again on what is another high-profile and important contract for the region.” Finley’ s had previously erected two buildings, involving a total of more than 1,300 tonnes of steel, for Nissan’ s Infiniti factory – part of Nissan’ s £ 250m investment at Sunderland. Jim added:“ We secured this latest contract from McAlpine under very strong competition, so we had to demonstrate a strong market

value.“ This latest appointment demonstrates our continued focus on value for money with both McAlpine and Nissan.”