29 Mar Hi-tech new Sheffield foundry safeguards 200 jobs

The chairman of William Cook Cast Products staged a grand opening of the facility at the firm’s Parkway site, with Lord Sebastian Coe, VIPs, friends and suppliers. Pouring molten metal at William Cook Cast Products in Sheffield.

It features the largest 3D printer in the world and a host of new machines and robotics which make moulds used to make the most complex cast products.

The Group employs 500 in total across three sites, in Sheffield, Leeds and County Durham. Turnover is £60m, export is 80 per cent of business.

As published in the Sheffield Star – Thursday 16 March 2017 for the full story please visit: https://www.thestar.co.uk/

Picture – Sir Andrew Cook and Lord Sebastian Coe at the opening of the new William Cook Precision Foundry Thursday 16 March 2017