Jobs are on the cards at an expanding Bradford engineering firm.

More than ten jobs will be created at Osborn Steel Extrusions, in Brighouse Road, Low Moor - on the site of the former Low Moor Alloy Steelworks.

The firm, part of Sheffield-based ANI Aurora, is spending £1 million building a new facility which links together a number of buildings on the site.

The firm, near chemical giant Allied Colloids, is increasing its capacity by 50 per cent with the new work area and boosting staffing levels from the current 70 to 80.

A small number of jobs have also been created at the business over the past few months.

Osborn Steel Extrusions has a turnover of £6 million and exports more than 50 per cent of its products abroad.

It carries out work for a wide range of industry sectors including the defence, aerospace, general engineering, petro-chemical and transport industries.

The new building will include state-of-the-art fume abatement equipment which will meet European Union environmental standards and take the company to ISO 14001 accreditation level.

There has been a steel and iron works on the Low Moor site since the 1700s and the firm has been in business since 1953. At the time one of the first extrusion presses in the world used in the steel section process was installed.

Director and general manger Andrew Griggs, who has been with the firm for more than 10 years, said: "This is the first new building to go up on this site for many years.

"The improvements should be ready for commissioning in April."

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