A North Tyneside fire protection company has created 20 new jobs after expanding into a second regional site.
Barrier Fire Protection, which is based in Wallsend, has invested in a site at Haverton Hill, in Stockton, to increase workshop capacity, something which has become necessary to service growing off-site demands from customers. The company provides systems to protect the assets of businesses within the offshore, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, nuclear, marine and civil construction sectors since 1975.
Its parent firm Barrier Ltd was originally established to serve the burgeoning North Sea oil and gas market, providing abrasive blasting, corrosion protection and industrial painting services. In the 1980s Barrier Fire Protection was formed as a division of the company, to provide the specialist coatings and passive fire protection which was being demanded by the industrial majors of the time.
