A THRIVING Radcliffe company has clinched a multi-million pound sewage pumping station maintenance deal with Severn Trent Water (STW).

Site Electrical scooped the lucrative contract against tough competition. Potentially, the contract is for a period of seven years, an initial three years with an option for a further two, two-year extensions. Mr Ian Wilbur, managing director of Milltown Street-based Site Electrical, said: "This contract is an important expansion of our business and we are looking forward to building a long-term relationship with STW over many years."

The area of the maintenance work includes Birmingham and surrounding districts, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. Mr Wilbur added: "The work is a partnering arrangement with Severn Trent Water for routine and reactive maintenance of 870 sewage pumping stations and breakdown cover has to be provided 24/7. This is our biggest contract of its kind in terms of the number of pumping stations involved.

"This adds to the existing pumping station maintenance contracts we have with United Utilities in the North West and United Utilities Operational Services across the whole of North Wales."

In fact, Site Electrical currently holds more than 200 individual maintenance contracts for both private household and industrial clients and management companies.

Mr Wilbur added "This is in tribute to our expertise in this field. This contract comes at a time when we have a good order book."

Site Electrical was launched in 1980 by Tom Murphy when its core business was servicing the tunnelling industry. The firm was initially based at Radcliffe's Constellation Mill before transferring to Bury. But three years ago it renewed its Radcliffe roots when it moved to bigger premises in Milltown Street in a building christened Constellation House in tribute to its original HQ.