{"id":500861,"date":"2025-10-15T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:10:19","slug":"billington-plans-bristol-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500861\/","title":{"rendered":"Billington plans Bristol closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"mfp-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/assets\/news_articles\/2025\/10\/1760510468_yate.jpg\" title=\"Billington&#039;s Yate facility [Google Street View]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/750x500_top_1760510468_yate.jpg\" alt=\"Billington's Yate facility [Google Street View]\" class=\"captioned-image__image responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nBillington&#8217;s Yate facility [Google Street View]<\/p>\n<p>Billington has begun consulting employees at its Yate facility ahead of making a formal decision on the future of the Yate facility.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Billington is proposing a restructuring of its structural steel operations, closing the Yate facility in Bristol and consolidating its structural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/search\/steel?utm_source=tci_news&amp;utm_medium=auto_keyword_link\" title=\"Search for suppliers of Steel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-linked-keyword\" rel=\"noopener\">steel<\/a> operations at the company\u2019s Wombwell and Shafton sites in Barnsley, local to all other group operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that a consolidation at Barnsley would provide flexibility to more closely align operational capacity with market demand, as well as reduce overheads and costs.\u00a0 Recent capital investments at the two Barnsley facilities have allowed for an increase in productive output, it said.\u00a0 This, combined with the expansion of the night shift at the Shafton facility, has provided the opportunity for capacity to be transferred to Barnsley.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-top--md margin-bottom--md\"><b>Got a story?<\/b> Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/news\/view\/mailto:news@theconstructionindex.co.uk?subject=News%20Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news@theconstructionindex.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billington&#8217;s Yate facility [Google Street View] Billington has begun consulting employees at its Yate facility ahead of making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,33973,41585,5168,41582,41583,41584,41581,41580,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-500861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-building","11":"tag-civil-engineering","12":"tag-construction","13":"tag-construction-companies","14":"tag-construction-contractors","15":"tag-construction-contracts","16":"tag-construction-jobs","17":"tag-construction-news","18":"tag-england","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115376936423239386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}