Grange Fencing says it is on track to open its new Hull factory in October.
Grange managing director Duncan Hill told TTJ that construction work on the site, including new areas of concrete hardstanding, are ongoing, while improvements to the treatment operation are also planned.
Mr Hill said the factory would have a similar capacity to the previous site at Alexandra Dock but had the advantage of being a freehold site, with better logistics and efficiencies.
The Hull operation, Grange’s secondary manufacturing plant (the company’s Telford plant is larger), is seeing an investment of about £2m in total from Grange.
Mr Hill said the assignment of its previous site as part of Siemens’ planned major wind turbine manufacturing plant, coupled with the levying of backdated ports rates and increased rents, led Grange to seek out a new option for its northern manufacturing operation.
He said the new site was only two miles away from the port, where Grange imports significant volumes of timber from the Baltic States.
