Hinkley orders roll on with £100m-plus steel award

Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke have placed a 200,000 tonne steel order for the Hinkley Point C project, as contractors continue to gear up to deliver the troubled nuclear plant.

Welsh rebar engineer Express Reinforcements has been named preferred bidder for the package, understood to be worth over £100m.

Rebar will be supplied from the firm’s Neath and Newport manufacturing centres, using steel supplied by CELSA Steel in Cardiff.

The Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke joint venture BYLOR is preparing to deliver a £2bn civils package at Hinkley.

Martin Westbury, project director at BYLOR, said: “BYLOR is currently working closely with EDF Energy to prepare the site at Hinkley Point C for the main construction programme, so that when full governmental approval is received, work can commence in earnest without delay.”