Rowecord Engineering, Newport: Olympic roof firm set for administration

The biggest steelwork contractor in Wales is due to go into administration later putting 400 jobs at risk.

Newport-based Rowecord Engineering says it has exhausted every option to sustain the business.

The roof for the Olympics aquatic centre was among its many high-profile projects.

BBC Wales business correspondent Nick Servini is at Rowecord's headquarters in Newport for Good Morning Wales.

He spoke to Jonathan Deacon, a reader in marketing and entrepreneurship at the University of South Wales in Newport, and Ron Jones, Labour councillor for the Pillgwenlly ward, where Rowecord is based.

Olympic roof firm job hopes remain

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