Engineer wins big Chinese contract

Last year, the Doncaster-based group's subsidiary, CPS Asia, designed and installed the injection system on one of the largest blast furnaces in the world for the customer.

It will produce a coal injection system to be included in the rebuild of one of the customer's blast furnaces.

Chief executive Alex Stewart said: "We are delighted that CPS Asia is continuing to demonstrate its ability to win significant orders, and in particular repeat orders from existing customers, by meeting their needs and providing innovative solutions.

"We are focused on strengthening our order book and are pleased to announce this order, which was secured at healthy levels of contribution and is in line with management expectations."

Earlier this month, Clyde won a 1.1m contract with a US confectionary company.

The firm will supply a pneumatic conveying system to the Asian affiliate of the US company, as part of the expansion of a large factory in China.

Clyde is a global provider of pneumatic conveying and air filtration solutions for process industries.

The group is primarily involved with the design and implementation of value-adding, energy saving and environmentally efficient solutions, which are used to handle the raw materials required to produce commodities such as metals, cement, chemicals, ethanol and foods.

Last month, the company also secured a 1m contract from a Chinese producer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to provide a series of pneumatic conveying and truck unloading systems handling PVC resin.