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October 2024

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Last year's very strong results had been boosted by £3m windfall gains from a falling steel price (Billington was able to wait to buy steel at a cheaper price), says CEO Mark Smith, so it was always going to be a tough ask to see Billington maintain profits this year. The latest H1 shows sales were £57m (down just 3% year on year), helped by continuing benefits from its capital investment and modernisation programme (now in year 4 of 5), which includes automation for handling the large meccano-like components of steel that form the skeletal frame for buildings and other previously manual processes such as cutting, shot blasting and drilling. A combination of these two factors, along with a different mix of work (a large warehouse ...

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