Stainless Metalcraft is set to supply high integrity stainless steel storage boxes used to store intermediate-level waste retrieved from silos at legacy locations in Cumbria.
Credit: Stainless Metalcraft
Stainless Metalcraft (Metalcraft), part of Avingtrans PLC’s Process Solutions and Rotating Equipment division and Sellafield Limited, have mutually agreed to exercise the option to enter into the second phase of the contract to provide high integrity stainless steel storage boxes for the Sellafield complex.
The 3M3 box contract is now worth up to £70 million and represents an approximately £20 million uplift to the original contract awarded in 2015.
The boxes will be used to store intermediate-level waste retrieved from silos at legacy locations in Cumbria. In environmental terms, this storage project represents one of the most positive and important intergenerational equity deliverables of the next few decades, developing and implementing critical technology to bequeath a pristine environment to posterity.
The agreement to exercise the option marks Metalcraft’s successful transition to the second phase of the 3M3 box work with Sellafield. As part of this transition, Metalcraft will be producing approximately 1,000 boxes over phase two of the programme, which is currently expected to take six years, with revenue being recognised evenly across this period.
Metalcraft manufacture high integrity mission-critical products for some of the world’s most hazardous and dangerous environments, across a wide range of sectors including nuclear, medical, big science, energy and other challenging markets.
Since 2015, Metalcraft has invested in creating the only dedicated facility to supply boxes for ILW in the UK. As a result, the company says it is in a leading position to tender for future contracts at Sellafield over the duration of the site decommissioning.
Steve McQuillan, CEO of Avingtrans, said: “Winning the initial contract back in 2015 was a landmark moment for Metalcraft, allowing us to invest significantly in both infrastructure and personnel, to create a world-class centre for the manufacture of ILW containers, and boosting our apprenticeship programme. This training programme can now be securely extended for the long term, providing skilled engineering apprentice roles in a relatively deprived area of the UK.”
“Securing the next phase of works wholly justifies that investment and vindicates the Board’s decision to refocus what was previously our Energy and Medical Division on new markets. Sellafield’s trust in Metalcraft to deliver this next phase of the project endorses the quality of our management processes in this highly sensitive technology.”
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