Steel for Life: Headline Sponsor
12 NSC
September 18
Holding over 110,000t of stock in situ
across 27 depots around the UK
allows for continued excellence in
customer service and support. Barrett Steel’s
extensive depot network not only makes
them one of the UK’s largest independent
steel stockholders but, according to Barrett’s
construction customers, also provides
them with supply security due to the range
and depth of Barrett’s stock at a time when
forward availability can be uncertain.
As a key market to Barrett Steel, the
construction sector is mainly supplied from
the group’s largest division, General Steels.
The group itself is divided into four divisions:
General Steels, Engineering Steels, Tubes, as
well as the International division, which all
satisfy a range of markets.
As part of the General Steels division,
Barrett Constructional Steel (based out
of Barrett’s Bradford head office) focuses
exclusively on larger steelwork contractors,
who are likely to have unique and challenging
requirements due to the large size and
complexity of the projects they work on. The
General Steels division provides all the steel
elements needed to create modern structures,
including heavy structural sections, steel
plate, tubular sections, light sections, flats and
angles.
Continuous investment in quality and
productivity enhancing state-of-the-art
equipment continues for the group in
2018/2019 with long-term plans for the
installation of new lasers, saws and a new
shot blast, prime and painter, which are
traditionally the services delivered by
steelwork contractors.
But far from this creating a conflict of
interest, steelwork contractors now value the
option of having routine operations using this
equipment carried out by stockholders. This
investment in processing within stockholding
allows contractors to focus on the design,
more challenging fabrication operations and
the erection processes.
An example of Barrett’s continuous
investment to support its construction
customers’ ever changing needs is
demonstrated clearly at one of Barrett’s key
processing depots in the West Midlands,
CMT Steel Services, which will see
investment in a new automated saw. The
investment in this project alone is projected
to reach around a quarter of a million pounds
allowing Barrett’s to reduce lead times further
and increase capacity for their ever-growing
customer base across the UK - with all these
considered it’s easy to see why this is such an
important step forward for the company.
Similarly, 2019 will see further investment
in a new shot blast, prime and paint line for
Barrett’s headquarters in Bradford, home to
Barrett Steel Services (the group’s founding
depot) as well as its Barrett Construction
team.
Long established supplier
As a key partner to the constructional steelwork sector across
the UK, Barrett Steel prides itself on possessing not only the
size and scope but also the reliability and innovation required
to make it a versatile provider to the industry.
Barrett Steel are one of
the UK’s largest steel
stockholders
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