Shotton Tissue Mill expanded and refurbished with steel

More than 1,400t of steelwork has been installed for the expansion and modification of the Shotton Tissue Mill facility in Deeside, North Wales.

Owned by Turkish-based Eren Holding, the facility will become one of the UK’s largest recycled paper manufacturing plants, producing containerboard packaging and tissue paper products.

Working on behalf of main contractor Stellar UK and architect/engineer Prokon Muhendislik, Severfield fabricated, supplied and erected the project’s steelwork.

Severfield’s work included the refurbishment of the site’s main tissue mill building, a steel-framed structure originally built in 1988 that measures 210m-long x 28m-wide. The roof and cladding were removed, and the existing steel columns were all strengthened (an operation that required extensive onsite welding) in order to allow new steelwork extensions to be added, raising the height of the building by 3m.

A total of 420m of crane beams and rails were removed, refurbished and then reinstated inside the enlarged building, alongside alterations and strengthening works to an existing mezzanine.

Severfield Senior Project Manager Andy Bramley, said: “As there was an international project team, we had to work closely with the main contractor and design team to coordinate technical information, resolve detailing issues and maintain programme progression throughout the works.

“This was a challenging and complex project, which was helped by the invaluable experience and tenacity of our Senior Site Manager, Scott Brownley, who delayed his retirement by several months in order to complete a job, which was his swansong to the steel industry.”