Door Industry Journal - Winter 2016

NEW PREMISES ACQUIRED FOR STOCKPORT MANUFACTURER A long-established manufacturer of industrial doors and hardware components, Indupart Ltd, is enjoying additional premises at Discovery Park in Stockport thanks to a six figure investment from long term banking partner Royal Bank of Scotland. The new 28,000 sq feet warehouse, situated near Indupart’s head office, provides an independent manufacturing workshop and houses a range of newly installed high spec machinery. This is helping to speed up the efficiency of supplying the industrial doors to trade across the UK to help keep ahead of the European competition. The existing building will house the components part of the business where existing equipment in place will be utilised. The new premises has created eight new jobs on the shop floor, adding to the company’s 42 employees. In addition, Indupart has depots in Hemel Hempstead, Glasgow and Bristol to logistically serve the UK trade and speed up the supply of goods required. Robin Taylor, Managing Director of Indupart Ltd, explains: “We are delighted to announce our expansion plans in our thirtieth year of business, which is testament to our business continuing to grow and improve in this competitive industry. “The Royal Bank of Scotland has supported us since 1986 and we are grateful to them for allowing us to continue our success story.” Matthew Young, Relationship Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland, added: “Robin is a personable and professional business man to deal with and this attitude is the reason why he has built up a successful company reporting year on year growth. We look forward to seeing what’s in store over the next 30 years and supporting the company’s future plans.” IN2 ACCESS CELEBRATES INTERNAL GROWTH IN2 Access and Control Ltd are celebrating a year of growth as the company makes further senior and apprentice-level appointments, in addition to significantly expanding its warehouse capacity. As IN2 Access continues to reach and exceed the growth targets it has set itself year-on-year, Director Mark Buchan, believes “it is critical to ensure we stay in direct contact with our customers, either with face-to-face communication, or by simply picking up the phone and presenting a familiar voice”. With this in mind, the company has recently welcomed Internal Sales Manager, Rhian Smith, into the team with the objective to support and develop smaller accounts whilst offering great customer service and value for money for existing customers. “We do not want to spread ourselves too thinly, so we are pleased to appoint Rhian Smith to head up our internal sales department. “Having worked with Rhian in the past, we know she is a dedicated, reliable professional and we are very pleased to have her on board” said Mark Buchan. In addition, the company has almost doubled its warehouse capacity in order to meet market demand. Having refitted its entire warehouse with new racking systems and adding a brand new mezzanine level, the extra space will be utilised as storage for existing stock and makes room for innovative new products, soon to be introduced to the marketplace. The company is also continuing their learning and development programme, as they announce the opening of two further apprentice positions in administration and production; taking the grand total to 7 apprentices in the past four years. THE door industry journal winter 2016 Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 23 industry news