This week signals the final days of Cleveland Bridge as a standalone company.

Once celebrated around the world as a pinnacle of manufacturing, the company is now reduced to a sentence in the Administrators' report:

"It is anticipated that the ongoing contracts which the company is completing fabrications upon will be finalised during w/c 20th September 2021 and at that time the Administrators trading activities will end."

The report goes on: "In the event that a Going Concern sale is not achieved we will conduct a disposal by way of public auction."

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The structure of that sale may signal a way forward for the Yarm Road site, depending on who steps in and how much of the assets they want. There will be a sizeable number of companies lining up for the auction.

When the administrators were looking for buyers for the whole company, there were 458 users who accessed the information, 81 confidentiality agreements were signed and meetings were finally held with 30 different entities, including a number of site visits.

It was revealed last week that the company's debts total more than £21million, made up of 264 separate entries in the Company's House documents, including £6million to the Arab National Bank, £3million to HMRC and £2million to UK Export Finance. Financing company 4Syte is still owed £2.24million.