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Steadmans provide a Natural light a boost for

one stop-shop solution new manufacturing facility

AkzoNobel is one of the world’s leading industrial Trisomet panels which include 796 square metres
Leading one-stop-shop building products 112 linear metres of zed purlins all of which were companies with businesses trading in decorative of rooflights, manufactured to match, using high
manufacturer Steadmans has supplied materials for manufactured at Steadmans’ site in Cumbria. paints, performance coatings and specialty performance triple skin at 120mm depth. This
three new buildings for TIS Cumbria, West Cumbria’s chemicals. Works on a new £100 million included a 40mm Insu1ator™ core and a Lo Carbon
fabrication, welding and non-destructive The buildings required 31,000 fixings and 14 manufacturing plant in Ashington, Northumbria StepSafe external skin.
testing specialists. fire escape doors all of which were supplied by got underway at the end of June last year and will
Steadmans, highlighting that they offer a true one become the heart of AkzoNobel’s UK decorative The Insu1ator™ core and StepSafe external skin
TIS Cumbria services the nuclear, industrial process stop-shop solution. paints operations. were ideal for AkzoNobel’s environmental needs.
and petrochemical, oil and gas sectors across the The honeycomb core reduces carbon emissions
globe. Three new buildings, totalling 1,400 square Tony O’Pray, managing director, TIS Cumbria, said: The new site encompasses a filling and production without decreasing light transmission and gives
metres in floor size, have been completed at the “We have been very impressed with Steadmans’ hall and a containers inward building. It will halve enhanced light diffusion. By maximising the use of
organisation’s existing site in Workington. The level of service and the excellent products they have AkzoNobel’s environmental impact in the North- natural daylight, the need for artificial light is reduced
company has plans to double its workforce to 120 supplied. It has also been a beneficial relationship, East, reducing energy consumption per litre of paint and energy costs are lowered. StepSafe products
and has set up a number of apprenticeships. with Steadmans being based in Cumbria. We try and produced by 60 per cent. This will be achieved by are manufactured from high grade glass reinforced
work with local suppliers so that money goes back in employing cutting-edge manufacturing technology materials which reduces the amount of resin required
Steadmans, a principal UK manufacturer of building to the region.” and the latest in building design. in production, with the result that the embodied
materials for the steel building sector, supplied in carbon element is reduced.
excess of 5,600 square metres of AS35 100mm Two of the new buildings will be used to manufacture Hambleside Danelaw’s eco-friendly, factory
composite panels in a combination of goosewing TIS Cumbria’s products, which range from basic assembled rooflights were chosen by contractors The new site is due to commence operations in
grey and ocean blue and 100 square metres of carbon and stainless steel welded fabrications to Hathaway Roofing. The roof consists of Tata Steel late 2014.
triple skin rooflights. TIS Cumbria also utilised high integrity pipe work and pressure vessels. The
approximately 2,300 linear metres of flashings, third building will be used as a testing facility for the
including ridge, barge, and trimline gutters and company’s kit.

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