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2020
VISION
Successful family-run steel
firm turns 20 in 2020
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Sparks – Finley Structures
fabricates steel from its
87,000-sq ft facility in
Newton Aycliffe.
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steel fabrication firm which is in
its 20th year is helping to change
skylines across the country from its
bustling North-East base.
Finley Structures celebrates its 20th
birthday in August and is in a stronger
position now than it ever has been.
The family-run steel firm has already
established itself as preferred suppliers
to all major national construction giants,
including the likes of Sir Robert McAlpine,
BAM, Tolent, Willmott Dixon, Galliford Try,
Bowmer & Kirkland and Kier.
It has fabricated and erected the steel
frames for well-known structures the length
and breadth of the UK.
They range from the Victoria Gate
shopping centre in Leeds, to the Advanced
Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
in Sheffield, the AMP Technology Centre in
Rotherham and Hull Venue.
Finley Structures has also built skyline
units for Heathrow Airport and new
buildings for universities, schools and
colleges around the UK.
More locally, Finley Structures helped
to build Teesside University’s eye-catching
Curve building and new student life
building, the National Biologics Centre
in Darlington, Hitachi’s train assembling
factory in Newton Aycliffe, Nissan’s Leaf
manufacturing facility in Washington and
the National Renewable Energy Centre in
Blyth.
Notable recent contracts include
the 550-tonne contract at the IAMP in
Washington for GMI Construction, a
1,650-tonne project at North Sea Link