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Fire engineering - Barkston's new body building venture (2/12/11) Engineering
specialists at a Leeds company are pioneerign fabrication of fire engine bodies
using a material new to the UK. Barkston was chosen by Guilford-based coach
builder John Dennis to produce the bodies using the co-polymer Polybilt, which
is safer, stronger and more durable than traditional materials.
Supplying the continued and growing demand from independent kitchen retailers against the mass sales of the DIY sheds has led to a major relocation for Yorkshire's Designer Factory Kitchens.
Suppliers to the construction industry have had a few tough years, but for those continuing to invest and develop new lines and markets 2010 is looking a whole lot brighter.
Omega expansion plans sign of the times
A leading UK signs company that has grown consistently in its 17-year history to top £12m
annual sales is extending its Leeds premises to handle bigger projects, increase
warehousing and bring metalworking production in-house.
Union
Gears Up For War
Company chairman Paul Schofield’s New
Year message in 2001 was remarkably prescient
Turkish
Delight Builds Exports From Leeds
A £200,000-plus export order for a hotel
project in Turkey has crowned a fifth
successive year of growth for an innovative
Leeds-based construction components
firm.
Plastic
Origami Builds Retail Sales
The design and production ingenuity of a Leeds-based
plastics company is helping hardpressed retailers
to maximise sales growth in today’s tough
trading climate.
Signmakers
Head For Heights
Abseilers and technicians poised to re-brand
Vienna’s 14-storey, five star Intercontinental
hotel with eight-foot lettering were stopped
in their tracks when a fleet of helicopters
and Israeli security personnel effectively sealed
off the place....