53 No. directly employed personnel in the following departments/disciplines:

Production

· Platers - skilled platers all experienced in the assembly of complex structures from fabrication drawings. All platers undertake in-process inspection of their work with senior platers responsible for inspection of other work.

· Welders - all welders have undertaken external testing and are approved in accordance with BS EN 288 Part 3 1992 to carry out weld procedures in accordance with BS EN 287 Part 1 1992. Welder approvals are generally undertaken on butt-welds in 45 degree inclined fixed hollow sections requiring positional welding of all types. The difficulty of these procedures usually negates the requirement for additional weld testing/procedures to fulfil specific requirements on contracts.

· Machinists - all machinists are experienced in the use of our sawing/shearing/drilling etc. machinery and are also responsible for off-loading and distribution of materials and loading of finished fabricated steelwork.

Office/site

· Drawing Office - Detailed fabrication drawings prepared on CAD systems using Choicecad, Truecad 2000, Autocad release 14.0 & 2000, X-steel or manually depending on project type.

· Estimating

· Contracts

· Purchasing

· Commercial

· Accounts

· Administration