{"id":359171,"date":"2026-03-22T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:47:12","slug":"family-owned-steel-fabricator-in-wexford-bought-by-london-listed-group-in-e7-3m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359171\/","title":{"rendered":"Family-owned steel fabricator in Wexford bought by London-listed group in \u20ac7.3m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Hennessy, founder and former managing director of Hentech, said the deal would allow the Ballymurn-based steel fabricator to grow faster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/77082488-5818-4a61-a9ea-f12043dd9cc3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Hennessy, founder and former managing director of Hentech, said the deal would allow the Ballymurn-based steel fabricator to grow faster<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A family-owned fabrication firm from Wexford has been acquired by a large London-listed steel products group for \u20ac 7.3m, as it pursues growth in the European data-centre market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hill &amp; Smith, the FTSE 250-listed steel products group, revealed last week it had bought Hentech Fabrication. It is the latest Irish data-centre-linked firm to be snapped up in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Hennessy, founder and former managing director of Hentech, said the deal would allow the Ballymurn-based steel fabricator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,5913,251],"class_list":{"0":"post-359171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sean-pollock","12":"tag-technology-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}