______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hargreaves
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A leading specialist in bulk materials handling, Hargreaves outlines ambitious growth strategies for 2025
Hargreaves Industrial Services Limited( Hargreaves) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hargreaves Services plc. The company, previously Norec Limited, was acquired by Hargreaves plc in 2006. Sean Hager, Managing Director, outlines the company’ s history:“ At that time, we predominantly held long-term service contracts operating and maintaining material handling plants at coal-fired power stations. We handled the coal coming in and the ash out, and later, as flue gas desulphurisation plants were introduced to reduce the carbon dioxide levels from the station’ s emissions, we also handled the limestone and gypsum, which were both used in this process.
“ As the country’ s energy requirements changed and the future of coal-fired generation was finite, we embarked upon an ambitious development strategy to diversify our business into related industrial sectors and introduced largerscale engineering projects to our service offering. In 2022, we also acquired a water business, which has enabled us to further expand into minor civils and MEICA( Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control, and Automation) work in the water industry.
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“ Our specialism is very much bulk materials handling and the associated equipment, as well as infrastructure such as conveying systems, materials processing, silos and storage, and loading and off-loading solutions. We can build the schemes, and then we can operate and maintain them too, which is something that separates us from our competition.
“ Through our water business, we specialise in mechanical, electrical, and minor civils works associated with water infrastructure, for example, new sewage pumping stations, mains
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