Chinese firm signs on the dotted line in first AMP deal

CHINESE firm CISDI UK has made its first order, worth £190,000, at the Advanced Manufacturing Park.

The company invested £2.2m in its Victoria Quays offices in Sheffield in May, after picking the Yorkshire city from an international line up including Dusseldorf and New York.

Now CISDI UK, a procurement and design company, has made a deal with Sarclad Ltd on Whittle Way to procure a remote strand condition monitor, used in steel casting machines.

CISDI UK MD John Lester said: ” We are delighted to be buying from Sarclad, a company with a vast amount of expertise in the metals industry.

“The order will be heading for China, where our parent company CISDI Group will incorporate it into a continuous casting plant it has won a contract to build for Sha Steel in Zhangjiagang, in the Jiangsu province.

“There will be further orders to come from that project and we hope to place as many as possible within the Sheffield City Region.

“CISDI UK has a further £1.3million of procurement and design orders from China to fulfil on components within our first year, particularly those made to such long tradition in the local area.”

Sarclad, which was launched in 1977, supplies equipment to steel manufacturers and suppliers across 46 different countries. It moved from Chesterfield to the AMP in 2012.

Managing director Richard Cowlishaw said: “Having CISDI located in Sheffield provides a direct link to the huge export market in China and will benefit not only Sarclad but other manufacturers and suppliers throughout the country.

“Our equipment will be used for measuring the critical parameters of a steel casting machine to ensure the highest quality of the cast steel slabs. It is custom-designed and manufactured entirely in the UK.”

 

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