The
Rossendale Group of Lifting Gear Companies
Limited, which specialises in the supply and
servicing, manufacturing and hiring of lifting
equipment, has relocated its expanding,
job-creating Lincoln operation into a new
purpose built 6,500 sq feet factory on Gateway
Park.
The factory is almost three times the size of
its former unit on Sadler Road, which the
company moved to two years ago creating 4
new jobs. Now the workforce has expanded
to fifteen and more jobs and development are in
the pipeline.
"Although
the move has provided much needed space
such is the scale of development that we will
soon need a larger base for our Lincoln flagship
operation. We have recently taken on more staff,
now employ fifteen but need up to
twenty one. We see Lincoln, which is an ideal
location, taking on an even more important role
within the group in future," said
Cliff Meakin, Rossendale Group's Lincoln
manager.
The
Rossendale Group, a company formed in Lancashire
more than half a century ago, employs 121
people and Lincoln was the eleventh branch
formed within the group.
"The
development has created genuine industrial
employment in what is a traditional
industry in Lincoln. The position of
Gateway Park to the south of the city with
its close and easy access to the A46 and
A1 motorway network was also a decisive
factor for Rossendale Group's choice of
location," said Stephen Bradford, partner
at Hodgson Elkington, the chartered surveyors
who are agents for the scheme.
"The
planned dualling of the A46 and Gateway
Park's close proximity to the motorway system is
certainly a positive factor in the
attractiveness of the development, which
has been going
very well for the past two years. We have six
users now on site and twelve out of eighteen
acres left," said David Chambers, a
director of developers Temple Garth
Limited, a partnership company between Castle
Square Developments and the Lindum Group in
association with Lincolnshire Heartlands.
Further
information from:-
Paul
Croft
Tel: 01427 788319
