About MSR.

MSR isn't a general steel shop that happens to take on rail and tunnelling work. It's the other way round: rail, tunnelling and marine contracts are what the company was built on, and everything else runs through the same discipline. Tier 1 contractors don't hire MSR because it's the cheapest fabricator in Liverpool — they hire it because the steel has to be right the first time, on programmes where a late delivery or a bad tolerance doesn't just cost money, it shuts a railway.

MSR was set up in Bootle in October 1987 by three former Seaforth Welding employees. Nearly forty years on, it's still family-run and still based in the same part of Bootle, working out of two factories totalling 22,000 sq ft. In 2002 the company won the Corus Structural Steel Design Award — recognition from the industry's own judges for the same standard of work its client list already showed.

The projects that built that reputation include the Mersey Estuary Pollution Alleviation Scheme (MEPAS) — the sewer system built under Liverpool's Dock Road — and steelwork for the Liverpool ONE retail development. Contractors including Morgan Est, Costain, Norwest Holst, Murphy, Birse, Fineturret, A E Yates, Laing O'Rourke and Mansell have taken MSR steelwork onto their sites.

Today MSR fabricates and erects across structural, architectural, tunnelling and marine steelwork, working across the UK and Ireland from its Bootle base. See what the team delivers on the services and sectors pages, or look through real work in the case studies.