Engineering firm in record-breaking Paris Metro contract
The William Cook group has cast the first of up to 50 record-breaking steel supports for a flagship viaduct for the Paris Metro system.
The family-owned Sheffield business is designing and developing a cast steel column to support the 600m-long viaduct and elevated metro station in a multi-million euro project led by French architect Marc Mimram and the Parisian transport agency RATP.
Weighing in at as much as 12 tonnes and up to seven metres tall, the columns are the largest castings ever poured at William Cook’s Sheffield f... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
