ENER-G powers major expansion at UK headquarters
Sustainable power business ENER-G will double the size of its office accommodation and boost manufacturing space by 25% with a new 12,500 sq ft building at its global headquarters in Greater Manchester.
The £2m building, scheduled to open in December 2010, is under construction on an adjacent site to ENER-G House in Daniel Adamson Road, Salford.
It will enable ENER-G to keep pace with worldwide demand for its renewable and energy efficient technologies. The group's worldwide turnover last financial year was £125m, 47% of which was generated by export sales.
The new development will bring office capacity at the site to 24,000 sq ft releasing space at ENER-G House and at a second building in neighbouring Diamond Court, to expand manufacturing operations.
This will increase manufacturing space from 34,000 sq ft to more than 42,000 sq ft. The extra space will be used to produce a new energy efficient management control system, developed by ENER-G’s in-house new products development team.
The expansion will involve the transfer of 125 staff from the group's ENER-G Procurement and ENER-G Efficiency divisions from leased premises at St James’s House in nearby Pendleton. Staff from the company’s renewables division are also relocating from temporary offices located in Diamond Court.
Over the past two years the company has added more manufacturing space to boost production of its combined heat and power (CHP) and biogas generator units by 50% - to meet orders from across the globe.
ENER-G is a leading energy business in the UK and Europe and develops, manufactures, delivers and finances energy efficient and renewable solutions. In addition to CHP units and biogas systems, these include geothermal energy, heat pumps, efficient lighting, controls, metering, billing and data solutions, and new generation energy from waste. They are accompanied by a wide range of energy and water consultancy and energy procurement services.
Derek Duffill, group managing director, said: “Our innovative products and services are in demand across the globe – fuelling powerful growth which is reflected in a rapid rise in turnover and the need to expand our main site in Salford.
“We employ more than 760 people worldwide in and have operating companies and joint ventures in 17 countries, including the UK, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania, Italy, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Mexico and Spain, with partners in Canada, Ireland, Portugal, Iran and Slovenia”.
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