Manufacturer props up £200m energy project

BARNSLEY manufacturer of structural supports is helping contractors create two massive bridges across ravines as part of a £200m project to build a new remote Scottish power line.

Innovative Support Systems, based in the village of Mapplewell with manufacturing facilities in Oaks Business Park, has contracts with Network Rail, London Underground and the Canal and River Trust.

Its work in Scotland will allow the inhabitants of remote Scottish peninsula of Kintyre to have access to power when theirs is cut off during storms.

The new bridges as part of the project mean that more windfarms can feed electricity back to the National Grid which would normally be cut off.

The £200m Scottish and Southern Energy project should be complete by October this year.

Innovative Support Systems has aided in the building of bridges across two ravines, both 80m wide in around ten weeks, enabling 132-tonne transformers to cross.

Phil Richardson, ISS director, said: “It’s great to be able to help sort out a really tricky problem like this and it’s pleasing to think that we are helping to bring a secure supply of electricity to people living in isolated areas and help bring power back from windfarms in the other direction.

“It shows what a versatile product RamWall is and how easy it is to use.”

The firm was given advice on marketing, HR, and health and safety by business coaches from Enterprising Barnsley.

Mr Richardson said: Phil Richardson, ISS director, said: “It’s great to be able to help sort out a really tricky problem like this and it’s pleasing to think that we are helping to bring a secure supply of electricity to people living in isolated areas and help bring power back from windfarms in the other direction.

“It shows what a versatile product RamWall is and how easy it is to use.”