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Local engineering firm wins SSI UK contract

A local electrical engineering firm has played an integral part in the installation of a power plant needed to restart the blast furnace at the SSI UK plant in Teesside.

Slaters Electricals were on site in Redcar for around six months, and used their own rental fleet to help to temporarily distribute electricity from the local network to the furnace during the rebuild.

Slaters Electricals managing director Fiona Slater said, “It has been a great experience working with Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Ltd and we are very proud of being able to help restore the steel industry in the UK.

“Working to a tight deadline and with a limited access to the site, we successfully completed the task at hand, providing the much needed power distribution equipment to the site.

The hiring of specialist equipment is becoming a real growth area for the company, and it is now hoped that the success of contracts with big companies such as SSI will help them to further establish their reputation.

She added: “Also as a local business it also gives us great pleasure in the knowledge that on the day the plant begins production over 1,000 jobs will have been created in the North East area.”

Slaters Electricals Ltd, experts in power distribution equipment and services, has passed through the Slater family tree, seeing it grow to become an internationally recognised brand.

Based in the North East of England, Slaters Electricals specialises in re-engineered and new transformers, LV and MV switchgear and support services.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .