William Hague MP has officially opened North Yorkshire Timber‘s (NYT) new Northallerton sales centre.

In October last year NYT suffered millions of pounds worth of damage to stock and machinery after fire broke out at its head office, distribution and sales centre at Springwell Lane, Northallerton.

Twenty-one staff were redeployed to NYT branches at Ripon, Richmond, Middlesbrough and Sunderland while a reduced sales, storage and machining facility continued from the head office site.

In February a new storage, delivery and fabrication centre was established in a 120,000ft2 warehouse facility at Brompton-on-Swale and a new sales centre at Willow Beck Road was fitted out ready to trade.

&#8220It is an enormous blow to any business to have such a devastating experience as NYT had last autumn. To recover from that is a great tribute to the company”

William Hague MP

NYT chairman and co-founder David Cook said: “With this new sales centre, and our new storage, delivery and fabrication centre at Brompton-on-Swale, I’m pleased to say we’re back, we’re stronger and we’re continuing to build the business. This is our silver year – our 25th year of trading – and we intend to make it a year to remember.”

Mr Hague said: “It is an enormous blow to any business to have such a devastating experience as you had last autumn. To recover from that and have a fully finished building again is a great tribute to you and your colleagues. Let us celebrate that resilience and rebounding from disaster.”