Airedale welcomes clients from
Uruguay
TECONNEX clamps onto
global market
Cooling specialist, Airedale International, which exports to more than 60
countries around the world recently welcomed clients from Uruguay.
Keighley-based clamping solutions manufacturer
Teconnex recently underwent a major expansion
programme at its two-acre site. The factory
covers 90,000 sq ft including a new office and
administration block, along with an additional
warehousing facility.
This included representatives from Airedale’s Montevideo-based business
partner, Improtel. Managing Director, Jose Maria de la Fuente was
accompanied by Pablo Gutierrez from government-owned ANTEL, the largest
telecoms provider in the country.
The visit was the latest in a series over the course of the last few years which
have provided both Improtel and ANTEL with opportunities for training at
Airedale’s training school.
Jose Maria de la Fuente and Pablo Gutierrez were also present to witness test
the Airedale AlphaCool™ precision air conditioning (PAC) system which forms
part of the latest order from ANTEL.
Uruguay has an estimated population of 3.2 million people of which 1.7 million
live in the capital Montevideo. When asked why they choose to partner with
Airedale, Pablo Gutierrez said: “Antel have extremely high standards which
narrows the choice of suppliers down considerably. Energy performance is just
one part of the equation. We also place a great deal of emphasis on system
reliability. Airedale’s systems score very highly in both areas.”
Ellis checksin to secure
King Abdulaziz
airport order
Cable cleat manufacturer, Ellis has
secured a major specification for its
Emperor cleats to be installed in the
new King Abdulaziz International
Airport (KAIA), which is currently
being built 19km north of the Saudi
Arabian city of Jeddah.
The order was secured through the
North Yorkshire company’s Saudi
distributor, Riyadh-based Mena
Arabia. Installation of the products is
currently underway, and is scheduled
for completion during the first quarter
of 2015 – with the airport expected to
open at the end of this year.
When complete, the new KAIA will
feature a 670,000 sq. m. passenger
terminal complex with the capacity
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“We have invested over £2 million in the last two-anda-half years, in our Keighley head office operation
across all areas – plant, equipment, manufacture, test,
in-house computer-aided design, quality assurance –
and, importantly, in our people,” explained Teconnex
managing director Paul Sleaford (pictured).
“While we manufacture clamps – around 200,000
a week for a multitude of applications – we design
and make them specifically to our customers’
specifications. We are also now actively seeking to
recruit more people across-the-board to fulfill both
current and planned future growth potential.”
Since 2008 the company has increased employee
numbers from 172 to 400. Turnover has virtually
doubled and is forecast to hit £28 million in the
current financial year.
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for 80million passengers a year – an
increase of over 600 per cent on the
current airport’s13million.
Tony Conroy, export director for Ellis,
said: “KAIA is one of the biggest
infrastructure projects in the world
today and securing such significant
involvement in it is a resounding
endorsement of our strategy of
appointing local distributors in key
export markets.
“As with so many of the export orders
we secure, the market knowledge
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