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  Edge Innovate boost production capacity with on-site investment
Since Hub-4’s last visit to EDGE Innovate’s manufacturing facility in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, in 2018; customer demand for EDGE’s products has continue to grow. So too, has their product offering. With the company’s aggressive product development programme, EDGE Innovate has continued to bring new products to the marketplace on a regular basis. In fact, since that visit in 2018; EDGE Innovate have unveiled two new, high capacity waste shredders, a 140’ telescopic radial conveyor and a newly designed track radial conveyor.
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Expanding the product line has not been EDGE’s only focus; in January 2019, EDGE Innovate announced a four-year expansion programme. The programme centres on innovation, employment, skills development, and export growth. Over the four-year period covered by the programme; EDGE Innovate will invest nearly £8 million in the business. Plans include the upgrading and expansion of their existing assembly production facilities, a new Customer Welcome Centre to house their ever expanding sales, marketing and aftersales departments, new staff welfare facilities, a Research and Development unit along with a new Quality Control Centre at their Dungannon headquarters. The investment will result in the creation of 80 new roles and a leadership and skills development programme.
IMPROVED CAPACITY & QULAITY
In a matter of weeks EDGE Innovate will see the completion of one of the programmes main goals, with the opening of a new 37,500 ft2 factory at their Dungannon facility. The new facility will see their production capacity increase by up to 30%.
The facility will house a new stores area, a state-of-the-art paint shop and blasting facility complete with an automated blasting line. Through a close working relationship with their current paint supplier, the new paint shop facility will enable EDGE to achieve a much superior paint finish, leading to a more durable product for their customers. Additional training coincided with a strengthened internal Quality Control system will guarantee an already high standard paint finish, first time, every time.
The new paint facility is controlled via an advanced PLC control system that will capture live data on production cycles. This process enables painters and fitters to get the correct colours and parts in place allowing for builds to move through the factory much more efficiently and increases productivity.
EDGE state that “every aspect of the coating process is regularly audited by our internal team and paint supplier to ensure compliance to our now increased internal and customer requirements. With the imminent transfer to our state-of-the-art painting facility we are confident that our investment will ensure EDGE remain market leaders and innovators”.
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
EDGE Innovate has committed to improving the environmental impact of its business operations. They aim to design and manufacture their machinery range at the highest levels of safety as well as minimising the environmental impact through the lowest possible levels of emissions. This has been evident through the installation a rooftop Solar PV
system in 2016. The system generates 180kWp and covers an area of 1152m2. The solar PV system generates over 140,751kWhrs/annum of electricity, offsetting over 72.8 tonnes of CO2 each year.
The new paint facility will see several environmental benefits. With shorter drying cycles and superior heat retention properties of the new paint booths installed; EDGE Innovate’s onsite energy consumption will be improved. Wastage generated via the painting process will also be greatly reduced, as too will the level of organic substance emissions.
Darragh Cullen, EDGE Innovate Managing Director commenting at the completion of the new factory, “With an ever-increasing customer demand for our products, it became abundantly clear that we needed to expand our manufacturing capacity. Having the ability to satisfy that demand was important, but so to, was the process of improving the quality of our products. This investment will allow EDGE to create a best in industry paint finish, allowing our customers to enjoy a much more durable product in the field”.
EDGE Innovate will now turn its attention to the expansion of their final assembly production facilities along with a new Customer Welcome Centre to house their ever-expanding sales, marketing, and aftersales departments.
ABOUT EDGE INNOVATE
EDGE Innovate develops, manufacturers and markets sophisticated technologies for shredding, stacking, screening, and sorting of primary and secondary raw materials in production processes and recycling. Our Material handling and recycling range is made up of reliable, durable and cost saving products with a wide range of mobile stockpilers, portable telescopic conveyors, tracked stackers, tracked and mobile feeders, trommels, slow-speed waste shredders, picking stations, material classifiers, roll-sizers and truck off- loaders. Our product range allows our customers, to shred, screen, separate, stockpile and size a vast array of materials.
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