Ainscough secures £1.2m contract

Matt Ainscough

WIGAN engineering company Ainscough Industrial Services has been awarded a £1.2m contact with The Bristol Port Company.

The three month contract is to carry out a full electrical and part mechanical refurbishment of a Kone Ship to Shore container crane.

The refurbishment will include a full re-paint, new controls, motors & drives, sheave wheels, buffers and the installation of a new Alimak passenger lift.

Ainscough Industrial Services Port Engineering division (AIS Seward Wyon) will act as the principle contractor the duration of the project.

Matt Ainscough, AIS chief executive, said: “With our extensive experience in fully integrated engineering services we are very much looking forward to strengthening and consolidating our relationship with The Bristol Port Company.”

The win follows a recent multi-million pound contract for the installation of a fully automated canning production line for energy and soft drink producer HELL Group in Szikszo Hungary.

Starting as a machinery movement business in 1982, the £32.5m turnover company was bought by chief executive Matt Ainscough, the third generation of the Ainscough family, in 2010. It employs 280 people across its nine UK facilities.

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