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Monmouthshire Building Society, one of Wales’ largest and most successful financial institutions, has pledged its support to the Monmouthshire Rowing Club for the eighth consecutive year. Established in 1929, Monmouth Rowing
Club is located close to the centre of Monmouth beside the River Wye. The club is inclusive of rowers of all
ages and currently has close to 100 active members. It caters for all abilities from elite rowers down to complete beginners, and provides members with an opportunity for
both purely social rowing and competitive team rowing. The club is open every day of the week. Monmouth Rowing Club is affiliated with
the Welsh Amateur Rowing Association (WARA) and hosts several annual race events, including the increasingly popular Monmouth Regatta, which took place this year on May 26 and 27, at which more than 600 rowers participated. The support from the building society
helps fund the general running costs without which the club would not be able to survive,
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or organise events like the regatta. Peter Scott, chairman of Monmouth
Rowing Club said: “We are deeply grateful to Monmouthshire Building Society for its continued support of the club, and the opportunities it provides for our members as result. Its support of community organisations like ours, is what makes it an important contributor to the cultural vibrancy within the area.” Monmouthshire Building Society is a
committed supporter of local life within the communities in which it operates.
Food firm installs new sprinkler system
Award-winning food firm Tillery Valley has invested £336,000 in a state- of-the-art sprinkler system to further improve safety measures at their Abertillery production plant. Cardiff-based Focused Project Engineering Limited was selected to
manage the installation of the hi-tech system and worked closely with the operations team at TIllery Valley to develop a tailored solution to meet the complex needs of the food production facility. Another South Wales firm, Bridgend-based building services
contractor, Highland Services Ltd, provided the thermal insulation and trace heating system required for the extensive network of pipes and control valves. Tillery Valley employs more than 350 people at its site in Abertillery.
Its advanced production plant has the capacity to produce one million meals per week. These meals are delivered daily to schools, hospitals, care homes and local authorities. Providing water-based fire sprinkler protection to a food production
plant, including large warehouse type freezers with artic like temperatures approaching -30 degree Celsius, was a major technical challenge, particularly when daily food production could not be halted or interrupted. Operations manager at Tillery Valley Jeff Dunlop said: “We continually
strive to have the optimum safety standards onsite. Our accident rate has decreased by 50 per cent over the last three years as part of a focused programme to drive down risk on the factory floor. This recent investment fits in with our wider programme and is an investment in our staff and in long-term business efficiency. “Tillery Valley is very pleased to have had this state of the art system
installed and also to have been able to complete the project using Welsh- based businesses for the majority of the works.” Mark Edwards, director at Focused Project Engineering, said: “The key
to success on the project was understanding that the customer still needed to safely make 200,000 meals a day, while the 800 metres of pipework and 2,000 metres of pipework insulation, was installed.”
Electronics company reports a growth in its turnover
Newbridge-based contract electronics manufacturer Axiom Manufacturing Services has reported a 15 per cent growth in turnover according to its latest reported figures and is forecasting a record turnover for the current financial year. Announced during a visit to
Axiom’s facility in Newbridge by the Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science, Edwina Hart, the business has already posted record figures of £6.88m for the first quarter of 2012, a 20 per cent increase on the same period last year. Now in its 10th year of
trading as a CEM, Axiom attributes the last two and a half years of growth to a strengthened management team combined with a rise in orders for high value, high IP sensitive work where security of both component and product supply is critical. The company has grown additional contracts and attracted new business as a result of additional value added services to
Axiom employee Julie Walters undertakes repairs to the printed circuit boards
supplement its core printed circuit board offering. Turnover for Axiom’s year
end in December 2011 was £19.7m and the company is set to achieve £24m for its current trading year, thanks to a healthy forward order book and new contract wins in the defence sector that will require additional investment into both recruitment and equipment. Axiom’s managing director
David Davies, who returned to the business in 2009 and has placed an increasing focus on creating solid relationships with customers, said: “2011 was a successful year for the company amid a general downturn in the global manufacturing industry and 2012 is looking to be even better. “As a management team
we have taken some strategic decisions to engage with markets where we see continued growth and new opportunities as well as utilising the sound relationships we have with current customers to offer additional and added services.”
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