MSR was established in October 1987 by three original employees from the former Seaforth Welding company and to this day is still a family run business. MSR has continued to grow within the steel industry and in 2002 were awarded the Corus Structural Steel Design Award

As well specialising in ship repair MSR has continued to diversify throughout the prevailing years and now specialises in the supplying of steel work and the supply of fully skilled labour for numerous civil engineering projects for organisations within the public and private sector. As well as tunneling steelwork for the tunneling industry. Some of these projects include work for MEPAS ( Mersey Estuary Pollution Eleviation Scheme), a new sewage system under the Dock road in Liverpool in order to clean up the beaches in and around Merseyside and has worked for some of the major construction companies in the Uk including, Morgan Est, Costain, Norwest Holst, Murphy, Birse, Fineturret, A E Yates, Laing O'Rourke and Mansell/