Lambert visits Forgemasters

Posted on 10 Jun 2010 by The Manufacturer

Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, has visited Sheffield Forgemasters to see progress on a £23m manufacturing expansion programme that will enable the company to capitalise on growing global order books.

Lambert was visiting the 200-year-old Sheffield engineering company to view the development of a multi-million pound machine shop and a new 4,000 tonne press facility. These developments include the building of a brand new 15,700 sq ft heavy machine shop initially incorporating five new large scale machine tools essential to increasing manufacture of the largest…

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