Severfield

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UK based structural steel contractor

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nameSeverfield plc
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typePublic company
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locationYork
industryConstruction
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revenue£450.9 million (2025)
operating_income£21.8 million (2025)
net_income£(14.1) million (2025)
num_employees1,964 (2025)
website
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Severfield plc is a York based structural steel contractor. By turnover it is the largest in the UK, with a capacity of 130,000 tons per year, and a further 20,000 tons in the EU. Landmark works include London's 2012 Olympic Stadium, The Shard, Wimbledon Centre Court roof, Emirates Stadium and Paris Philharmonic Hall.

The firm has acquired businesses across structural steel market sectors within the UK and EU,

History

The business was founded in 1978 as a partnership named Severfield-Reeve; moved to Dalton in 1980, and incorporated as Severfield Reeve Structural Engineers Ltd in 1983. As a public company it was known from 1988 to 1999 as Severfield-Reeve plc; from 1999 to 2014 as Severfield-Rowen plc, and then adopted its current title.

Listings

In July 1988, Severfield-Reeve plc was quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market, then moved up to the London Stock Exchange on 8 June 1995.

, Severfield plc is a component of the FTSE SmallCap Index.

Acquisitions and new businesses

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url=https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/financial/severfield-scoops-up-dutch-steel-contractor-for-21m-15-03-2023/date=15 March 2023access-date=13 March 2025first=Joshualast=Heinwebsite=Construction Newstitle=Severfield scoops up Dutch steel contractor for £21m }}{{efngroup=tldFounded 1968 and sister company of Voortman Steel Machinery. Voortman had previously constructed steelwork including piers E and F at Schiphol Airport; De Zalmhaven; the New Buildings at VU Amsterdam; Utrecht's Central Park; port facilities; process plant, The De Haven facility at Maassluis carries out metal fabrication for the petrochemical, offshore and energy sectors. The acquisition included a 50% stake in a joint venture with HAL Investments owned, Dutch builder Van Wijnen.
Carnaby based support structure and railway steelwork contractor, DAM Structures Ltd purchased for a minimum initial cost of £12 million, potentially rising to £27 million.
Bolton based nuclear and infrastructure structural steel business Harry Peers & Co Ltd purchased for a minimum initial cost of £18 million, potentially rising to £25 million. Acquisition included manufacturing site at Bolton.
date=2019-09-27first=Mikelast=Laycocktitle=Firm to close with loss of 75 jobs - despite making profits last yearurl=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/17929682.portastor-close-loss-75-jobs---despite-making-profits-last-year/access-date=2022-06-06website=York Presslanguage=enarchive-date=6 June 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606211940/https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/17929682.portastor-close-loss-75-jobs---despite-making-profits-last-year/url-status=live }}
Mamhilad based cold rolled structural steel manufacturer Composite Metal Forming Ltd purchased (50%) for a minimum initial cost of £4.1 million, potentially rising to £6.6 million.
group=tldComposite steel deck manufacturer, is owned by JSW Severfield Structures Ltd, and by a partnership associated with, former Severfield subsidiary, Structural Metal Decks Ltd.}}
JSW Severfield Structures Ltd (50%) joint venture opened in Mumbai. Remainder of the structural steel firm held by JSW Group.
Severfield Reeve Projects Ltd launches property investment division.
title=Severfield-Rowen PLC Acquisitionurl=https://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=200708221112386268Caccess-date=2022-04-26website=Investegatearchive-date=2 June 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602015720/https://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=200708221112386268Curl-status=livedate=22 August 2007 }}
Entered into Steel UK Ltd (50%) joint venture with Sheffield based steel stockholder Murray Metals Group Ltd to negotiate steel purchase prices for both partners
Patented craned or self climbing work platform that attaches to steelwork at height.
Sherburn based Atlas Ward Structures Ltd purchased from Bank of Scotland, and diluted shareholders, for £1.2 million.
Thorp Arch tubular steel fabricator Tubemasters Ltd purchased for £330,000.
Severfield Reeve Projects Ltd diversifies into house building.
Cellular beam design software developer, Fabsec Ltd incorporated with industry partners.
Lostock based structural contractor Watson Steel Structures Ltd purchased from AMEC for £2.5 million, including land and buildings.
Sheffield based design bureau Kennedy Watts Partnership Ltd (25.1%) purchased.
Hungarian chain mail glove manufacturing business opened in Bataszek.
Subsidiary Severfield Reeve Projects Ltd began to undertake construction projects outside of Severfield.
Remaining 25% minority stake in Manabo (UK) Ltd purchased.
url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/16495-severfield-rowen-announced-drastic-cost-cutting-measurestitle=Severfield-Rowen announced drastic cost cutting measuresdate=2009-09-29website=Business Deskaccess-date=2022-11-01archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104012735/https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/16495-severfield-rowen-announced-drastic-cost-cutting-measuresarchive-date=2023-01-04url-status=live }} structural steel contractor, and airport terminal specialist, J N Rowen Ltd acquired for £800,000.{{efngroup=tldPurchase also included the 25% of Structural Metal Decks Ltd not owned directly by J N Rowen Ltd. In 1998, Structural Metal Decks Ltd was sold for £1.8 million to its management. In 1993, Rowen and John Laing had been fined £125,000 following 1991 damage to a church. They and crane hire company Hewden Stuart Wolff had already agreed to pay £600,000 towards rebuilding costs. The crane had been working at a site across Old Thames Street when it crashed down into St James Garlickhythe and caused £2 million of damage. , the Sutton-in-Ashfield site is occupied by ECS Engineering Services
Meat processing safety equipment subsidiary Manabo (UK) Ltd (75%) begins trading.
Steel trading business, Steel (UK) Ltd (80%) acquired.
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Steel (UK) Ltd and Steel UK Ltd

In 1991, Severfield Reeve acquired 80% of steel trading business, Steel (UK) Ltd and bought out the remaining minority shareholdings in 2009. The company ceased trading in 2002; was renamed Stable Move Ltd in 2005, and dissolved in 2013 owing £1,161,732 to Severfield plc and eliminating shareholder value.

In 2006, Severfield established Steel UK Ltd as a 50% joint venture with Sheffield based steel stockholder Murray Metals Group Ltd to negotiate steel purchase prices for both partners. The company had been incorporated in 2005 as Stable Move Ltd. Severfield and Murray bought steel at prices agreed with suppliers by Steel UK and the company did not trade itself. The joint venture was dissolved in 2013.

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Manabo

In 1995, Severfield's meat processing safety equipment subsidiary Manabo (UK) Ltd began trading. Initially the business was a 75% joint venture with the original technology developer but in 1996, Severfield Reeve bought out all remaining minority shareholdings. The established Scandinavian distributor for Manabo's products agreed to purchase from the new company. Manabo manufactured at sites around Thirsk and from 1997, operated a chain mail glove factory in Bataszek, Hungary.

Such was the anticipated transformation of the structural steel business that by 1997, The Times described Severfield as a "specialist engineer and supplier of equipment for the meat and poultry processing industry". However in the same year, company founder John Severs blamed Manabo's six monthly £902,000 losses on the meat industry being "reluctant to change its ways in health and hygiene".The glove business and company were sold in 2000 after a further £2 million loss in 1998, and asset write-down of £2.8 million in 1999.

Severfield Reeve Projects Ltd

In 1991, subsidiary Severfield Reeve Projects Ltd was incorporated, initially to carry out construction at Severfield's plants. It began to undertake main contracting for others in 1997.

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Express Terminals Ltd (Ripon), National Tube Stockholders Ltd (Dalton) and Talking Pictures Cards Ltd (Thirsk)
Northern headquarters for the National Crime Squad and office building at Thirsk for Teleware
Turnkey relocation for Dowding & Mills at York
Warehouse for Encore Direct Ltd in York; office in Wakefield; premises for Union Trucks, and a school for North Yorkshire County Council
Thirsk Rural Business Centre (£5.2 million) and Belmont Nursing Home (£5.1 million)
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Severfield Reeve Projects diversified into house building in 2002, purchasing, on its own account, a site in Bagby for two traditional, five bedroom dwellings with 1 acre gardens.

In 2008, it launched a property investment division with the purchase of distribution warehouses from Royal Mail and the RNLI for £7.1 million. The value of the initial investments was written down by £2.1 million in 2009. New projects and investments by Severfield Reeve Projects Ltd stopped in 2009, and it closed in 2011.

Kennedy Watts Partnership Ltd

In 1999, Severfield purchased 25.1% of Sheffield based design bureau Kennedy Watts Partnership Ltd for £464,000 in shares and cash. The shareholding was restructured in 2008 so that it was held through an intermediary, Last Exit Ltd. Kennedy Watts Partnership Ltd was placed into administration in 2013; into liquidation in 2014, and dissolved in 2016 with a deficit to creditors of £292,000 and elimination of all shareholder stakes.

Deck riders

In 2006, Severfield patented a craned or self climbing work platform that attaches to steelwork at height, and mounts its own powered access platform. The apparatus was invented to assist erection of steel structures where conditions are not suitable for safe operation of conventional access equipment. In 2009, the work platform project was abandoned and £2.4 million development costs written off.

Severfield went on to develop 'deck rider' static base boom lifts with access platform manufacturer Niftylift. These can be repositioned by crane onto buildings under construction to sit in the steel decking. facilitating safe erection speeds of a storey every seven days - without waiting for concrete floors to set. By 2011, Severfield had purchased 20 of the machines.

As of 2025, deck riders are commercially available.

Tonnage

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90150876
75date=2019title=2018 Annual Reporturl=https://res.severfield.com/2018-Annual-Report.pdfaccess-date=2022-06-20website=Severfieldarchive-date=20 June 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620214839/https://res.severfield.com/2018-Annual-Report.pdfurl-status=live }}879
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95150683
95165803
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, the JSW Severfield Structures Ltd joint venture in India produced 100,000 tons of fabricated steel per annum.

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Accident statistics

Severfield plc's RIDDOR ratios have improved, and are lower than its industry average. Senior executives are remunerated according to the accident frequency rate of the business units they oversee.

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Locations

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As of 2025, Severfield plc is headquartered in York, It also manufactures in Sherburn, Lostock, Carnaby, Ballinamallard, Rijssen and Maassluis, and has offices at Breda, Moor Row, Newport and Glasgow.

Joint ventures JSW Severfield Structures Ltd and JSW Structural Metal Decking Ltd are located in Mumbai.

The Construction Metal Forming Ltd cold formed construction steel joint venture manufactures steel decking, and light gauge framing, in Mamhilad and Magor.

Project gallery

Stadia and arena

File:Tottenham Hotspur Stadium South Stand.jpg|Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

File:Construction of New Everton Stadium (geograph 7855157).jpg|Everton Stadium

File:London 2012 Olympic Park (13 July 2012).jpg|London 2012 Olympic Stadium (with ArcelorMittal Orbit in foreground)

File:Wimbledon Centre Court (May 15, 2019).jpg|Wimbledon Centre Court Roof

File:Emirates Stadium east side at dusk.jpg|Emirates Stadium

File:First Direct Arena, Leeds 24 October 2018 2.jpg|First Direct Arena

Transport

File:2015-09-23 Birmingham New St Station.jpg|Birmingham New Street Station

File:Emirates Air Line towers 24 May 2012.jpg|Towers for the London Cable Car

File:Manchester Victoria roof view.JPG|Manchester Victoria Station Renovation

File:Heathrow Terminal 2 under construction 2012.jpg|Heathrow Terminal 2

File:Heathrow Terminal 5 from the air.jpg|Heathrow Terminal 5

File:ClydeArc.jpg|Clyde Arc

Image:Millennium Bridge, taken from the Baltic.jpg|Baltic Gateshead Millennium Bridge

File:Ordsall Chord under construction April 2017.jpg|Ordsall Chord

Buildings

File:One Angel Square during night, December 2012.jpg|One Angel Square

File:Heron Tower, Bishopsgate, London.JPG|Heron Tower

File:South Bank Tower 2015.jpg|South Bank Tower extension

File:Tower crane 81 Newgate St from St. Martin's Le Grand City of London EC1 b darker.jpg|81 Newgate Street retrofit

File:30 South Colonnade reconstruction, Canary Wharf, Oct 2021.jpg|30 South Colonnade three floor addition

File:View of 5 Broadgate from Broadgate Circle - geograph.org.uk - 5746399.jpg|5 Broadgate

File:The Shard from the Sky Garden 2015.jpg|The Shard

File:22BishopsgateDec19.png|22 Bishopsgate

File:122 Leadenhall Street 2014-02-19.jpg|Leadenhall Tower

File:I54 and M54.jpg|Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre

File:The RRS Discovery & the V&A Museum, Dundee.jpg|V & A Dundee

File:Titanic Belfast HDR.jpg|Titanic Belfast

File:Distribution Centres (geograph 6338527).jpg|Amazon, Kegworth

File:Coal Drops Yard 0550.jpg|Coal Drops Yard

File:Pinnacle, Leeds 16.jpg|Trinity Centre, Leeds

File:Francis Crick Institute, September 2016 (29634828786).jpg|Francis Crick Institute

File:New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.jpg|New Victoria Hospital

File:BBC Cymru Wales (geograph 6226511) (cropped).jpg|BBC Cymru Wales

File:Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility.jpg|Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility

File:Philharmonie de Paris @ La Villette (28853121662).jpg|Philharmonie de Paris

Other

File:ArcelorMittal Orbit at night.jpg|ArcelorMittal Orbit

File:Aspire sculpture in Nottingham (1).jpg|Aspire, Nottingham

Controversies

Job losses

In April 2025, Diana Armstrong, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone expressed concern about job losses at Severfield's Ballinamallard business. After a profit warning, Severfield's CEO had also agreed to leave the company.

Bridge welding

In 2024, Severfield made provisions of £20.4 million for potential remediation work on at least 12 bridges manufactured for HS2 and National Highways. Affected structures included three completed HS2 bridges and the 3,400 t Allerdene Bridge over the East Coast Mainline in Gateshead. National Highways imposed traffic restrictions and lane closures on a section of the A1 until the weld defects had been resolved, and indicated the bridges' lives could be reduced. An industry media report suggested approach viaducts to Birmingham Curzon Street railway station were affected and that the issue relates to butt welds in weathering steel.

Site falls

In 2021, a steel erector employed by Severfield fell down a staircase at Google's Kings Cross site and was unfit to work for six days. Severfield suspected fraud and summarily dismissed him, but an Employment Tribunal determined the incident occurred; that the employee was unfairly dismissed, and awarded £2,721 in compensation. There was no order for payment in lieu of notice because, post dismissal, the erector took immediate, better remunerated employment elsewhere.

In 2002, a 29 year old steel fixer, working in Waltham Abbey for Severfield's Steelcraft Erection Services Ltd, fell from a new Sainsbury's distribution centre and suffered spinal injuries; broken ribs, and a punctured lung.

Hazardous fumes

In March 2020, Severfield was served a Health and Safety Executive Improvement Notice because of hazardous welding fumes at its Lostock works. The fault was corrected by April 2020.

Late payment

In July 2019, subsidiary Severfield Design and Build Ltd was suspended from the UK Government's Prompt Payment Code for failing to pay suppliers on time. The firm submitted an action plan to the Chartered Institute of Credit Management and was reinstated by November 2019.

Leadenhall Tower

During 2013, Severfield acknowledged substantial contractual losses in relation to Leadenhall Tower in the City of London. This prompted a major restructuring of the business; departure of the Chief Executive, and a £45m rights issue. Severfield's 2012 accounts included a £9.9 million charge for losses at Leadenhall Tower, plus a further £10.2 million on other delinquent contracts.

In 2014, two embrittled bolts broke and fell from Leadenhall Tower. Another snapped in 2015. Severfield announced an anticipated £6 million charge for bolt remediation works in 2015, and final settlement in 2019. Leeds based Andrews Fasteners Ltd, who went into administration, supplied the 3,000 defective 'megabolts', each the size of a human arm. A majority were replaced. Severfield had not used the bolts before and its Chief Executive commented that it would be unlikely to do so in the future.

During 2017 redevelopment of nearby 22 Bishopsgate, a suspended girder struck Leadenhall Tower. Severfield was the steel frame subcontractor to Multiplex's Bishopsgate site. Nobody was hurt.

White finger

In November 2017, Severfield was served a Health and Safety Executive Improvement Notice because of tools causing excessive hand arm vibrations at its Dalton facility. New working practices were applied by March 2018.

In 2011, a plater at the site had suffered permanent damage to his hands caused by vibrating tools provided by the firm. He developed white finger.

Forklift fatality

In 2016, the Health and Safety Executive fined Severfield £135,000, plus £46,020 costs, following a 2013 incident when a 27 year old was fatally crushed at its Dalton site. After moving welding wire, he had been reversing a forklift at speed and it overturned. Judge Anthony Briggs accepted Severfield had sought to ensure the safety of its staff but said it had been blind to enforcing the use of seat belts on forklift trucks. After the accident, £9,000 was raised for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Carrington Power Station

In 2013, Severfield contracted with the Duro Felguera group to provide steelwork for the new Carrington Power Station. Duro Felguera's UK subsidiary refused to pay a December 2014 stage payment. Severfield obtained adjudication under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 for £2,470,231.97, and then sought summary judgement from the High Court of Justice to enforce payment for a reduced amount of £1,445,495.78. Judge Stuart-Smith refused because part of the sum related to a power plant and was therefore excluded from the 1996 Act, and the adjudicator's jurisdiction. Duro Felguera argued it was in fact owed money by Severfield because of overpayments.

Severfield finally obtained a judgement from Mr Justice Coulson in 2017 for £2,774,077.91 (or £1,760,480.27 up to 2014) but by then Duro Felguera UK Ltd had entered liquidation and recovery was limited to what Duro Felguera in Spain could be obliged to pay under a parent company guarantee for the period up to 2014.

Faulty plate clamp

In 2012, Severfield settled the claim from a welder who had been moving steelwork with a crane and faulty plate clamp. A 10 foot long, and 2 foot wide, beam fell and crushed his foot.

Discrimination by association

In 2011, Severfield reduced the number of welders at its Sherburn site by selectively not renewing the contract of an employee who was caring for his disabled wife. He claimed discrimination by association. Severfield could not satisfy the employment tribunal there was any other reason for the dismissal and the welder was awarded £10,500 compensation with a recommendation he should be re-employed.

Clyde Arc Bridge

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Severfield subsidiary Watson Steel Structures Ltd fabricated the Clyde Arc Bridge in 2007. It had to be closed in 2008 because a clevis connector failed and a 35 metre long tension bar fell onto the carriageway. Another clevis was found to be cracked and it was decided to replace all 14 tension bars in the structure. Watson Steel Structures Ltd claimed £1.8 million from Macalloy, the clevis supplier, alleging its product was faulty. Macalloy denied the claim and countered Watson Steel Structures Ltd had only specified minimum yield stress for the components.

Founder transactions

In 2001, directors of the company, including John Severs, purchased its headquarters property for £14 million. In 2007, the company bought it back again for £23.5 million. Both transactions were endorsed by the independent directors.

Shareholders rebelled against a 2007 payment of £1.6 million to retiring Managing Director, John Severs. They refused to pass a resolution at AGM to authorise the payment which had already been made.

Epoxy resin paint

In 2005 Severfield dismissed a painter, who suffered allergic industrial contact dermatitis following exposure to epoxy resin paint. He claimed compensation. Severfield initially denied, but then accepted responsibility just before the 2007 High Court hearing. Mr Recorder Salter went on to award the painter £113,168.15 damages including £50,000 for loss of future earnings. The firm appealed but in 2008, Lord Justice Keene's judgement rejected its arguments and increased the award for future earnings loss to £90,000.

Roof leaks

In 1989, a subsidiary of Georg Fischer AG built a distribution warehouse near Coventry. The shallow pitch roof leaked, exacerbated by deflection of supporting steelwork. It sued the builders and designer. Severfield-Reeve plc was the steelwork subcontractor and met specifications supplied to it by the designer. In 1994, Severfield-Reeve plc agreed to pay £175,000 to the building owner in return for an indemnity against all parties in the matter.

In 2009, Severfield became third party in a claim relating to the leaking roof at an Albert Bartlett potato processing plant in Airdrie constructed by its subsidiary Atlas Ward Structures. Severfield agreed joint liability with the building's main contractors. Lord Menzies in the Outer House of the Court of Session was asked to choose between remediation options for the Airdrie premises, the alternatives differing in cost and quantum of damages. He drew attention to the similar decision that had faced Judge Hicks in the Fischer warehouse case.

In 2011, the Daily Mirror alleged the retractable roof over Wimbledon Centre Court leaked during a quarter final tennis match.

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