Engineers move in for latest milestone in Fort William wheels factory project

Plans to make Fort William a future hub of Britain’s automotive industry reached another milestone this week as ground engineers moved onto the site earmarked for Liberty’s flagship alloy wheels factory. The technical team moved in with their rigs and excavators for six weeks of in-depth ground investigations which will provide vital information for the design of foundations for the planned plant that is intended to manufacture wheels for at least a fifth of all UK-made cars from 2022 onwards. The innovative £120m plant, which will take its liquid metal directly from the adjacent Liberty British Aluminium smelter at Fort…