When Orb Electrical Steels moved into its new office block on the banks of the River Usk in September 2008 it marked a huge change in the company's image.

Until then, although a well respected manufacturer of specialist high-tech electrical steels,  the company's old office blocks and buildings that had been built in the 1890's, did not live up to its products. 

Now the impressive, modern, dark blue glass and silver offices sit proudly between the transporter bridge and the Newport City bridge and can be seen clearly from the distributor road on the other side of the river.