{"id":16607,"date":"2013-03-25T00:08:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:47:30","slug":"enterprise-minister-praises-steel-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/enterprise-minister-praises-steel-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Minister praises steel contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16608\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nHatsOffMar13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16608\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16608\" title=\"nHatsOffMar13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nHatsOffMar13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nHatsOffMar13.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nHatsOffMar13-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Watson Towers executives Jack Sanderson and Neil Watson, Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing, and Fraser Towers, also of Watson Towers standing in front of steelwork for a North Sea pipe laying barge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Scottish Energy and Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing has praised Watson Towers, one of Scotland\u2019s leading independent heavy engineering firms and parent company of Cairnhill Structures, for its work during a visit to its Coatbridge facility.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ewing said: \u201cIt\u2019s really good to see an ambitious Scottish company like Watson Towers grasping every opportunity to win orders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are very active in the energy sector, and I am encouraged to hear they have international orders bound for China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Government has pledged to increase the value of international exports by up to 50% by 2017 and the success of businesses like Watson Towers will help us reach this target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watson Towers current contracts include the construction of a huge carousel floor for a North Sea cable laying barge and providing specialist engineered components for a Biomass conversion at Ironbridge in Shropshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Energy and Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing has praised Watson Towers, one of Scotland\u2019s leading independent heavy engineering firms and parent company of Cairnhill Structures, for its work during a visit to its Coatbridge facility. Mr Ewing said: \u201cIt\u2019s really good to see an ambitious Scottish company like Watson Towers grasping every opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104,126,254],"class_list":["post-16607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-energy","tag-scotland","tag-watson-towers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nHatsOffMar13.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-4jR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16609,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions\/16609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}