North East contractor Seymour CPM starts year with…

North East contractor Seymour CPM starts year with brimming order book

A North East construction specialist says contracts with the likes of easyJet and Barker & Stonehouse will help it deliver a boost in sales next year.

Construction and plant and equipment hire firm Seymour CPM says 80% of its order book is already confirmed for the year ahead, thanks to a raft of repeat business. The firm ended its last financial year in September with a turnover of almost £4m, and now expects the figure to grow to £5m.

The firm, which has been trading for almost 10 years and moved to its current site in Hartlepool three years ago, is currently helping Barker & Stonehouse with its Tyneside expansion plans, having successfully completed a warehouse in Middlesbrough for the furniture retailer. It is working with principal contractor Mcluckie Projects to build a new furniture store at the Metrocentre Retail Park, where the building shell is complete and external works are under way, ahead of a planned February completion date.

The firm, which has 35 employees, is also working on a design and build project for a £1m house for a private client in Ledbury, Worcestershire, which is being built into a bankside.

Seymour CPM’s managing director Chris Seymour said: “We are a business founded on family values with a total commitment to training our own apprentices and recruiting from within wherever possible. This approach has allowed us to develop a reputation as a dependable construction and civil engineering company and has led to much repeat business”

“After our original family business was sold back in 2007, I worked for Sir Robert McAlpine to broaden my construction experience on larger projects and then moved to set up Seymour CPM in 2011. It is really starting to gain traction.

“At the beginning our workload was more domestic/self-build projects, but today we focus mainly on commercial projects and undertake a range of projects typically up to £1m in value. Our client base includes easyJet, having worked airside on their facilities at both Gatwick and Luton Airport. Another client is MoD contractor, Rubb Buildings, who we have worked with throughout the country on a range of RAF bases undertaking groundworks for lightweight MRO structures for aircraft.

“In recent years we have also started to re-establish our family reputation from days gone by, for civil engineering projects in the local petrochemical industry on Teesside, and we have several under way in this sector for clients such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, and Navigator Terminals.”