_______ _________________Clitheroe 223U (Editorial), 221123 (Advertising). Burnley —331 (tlashijiul) Industryis B U S IN E S S E Q U IPM E N T buoyant. . . order books are bulging . . . years o f planning is, paying ^ It’s boom time in the


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confidence. Industry is buoyant, order books are bulging and local firms intend to keep it that way. For the good times have not dropped into their laps like so much manna


Ribble Valley. There is an air of


from heaven. Years of painstaking


planning, long hours of hard work, and riding out nationwide recession —


Wylie, manager of Ribble Sheet Metal Ltd, at Up Brooks, wondering, but as he says: “It is our product they want. This particular firm has placed four orders with us and they are clearly satisfied. Both our quality and price must be


It is a poser that has Ian


right.” The company s order


books are bulging with


which made us the joke of Europe, while at the same time finding new markets worldwide, have paid off. Success has been tena­


work from local firms, from all over the country, and from Europe. Says Mr Wylie: “We are


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weighing and bag-tilling equipment for the food, chemical and pharmaceuti­


cal industries, which make powdered products. Last year it brought out five new products and about 25 per cent of its work goes to the export market. Said Mrs Podevyn: We have a growing export


added on computerised controls for its equipment — a further aspect which underlines its confidence for 1988. Ultraframe is a young


market to Europe, the Far East and Australia.” Now the company has


Clitheroe company, not yet five years old, which


mown out with work for the forseeable future.” At Spiroflow Ltd, mar­


keting director Mrs Cath­ erine Podevyn echoed this confidence and optimism. She said: “This will be


can firm be willing to transport seven tons of steel fabrications made in Clitheroe all the way across the Atlantic when the order could be so easily made over there?


our busiest year. Last year had a slow start and then took off, and we ha­ ven’t looked back since. It seems to be an experience shared by other local


firms.” Spiroflow is one of this


country’s leading manufac­ tur e r s of conveying,


t-Fending o f f the Greeks in fierce


cement war FOR ONLY


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an even greater impact on the skyline if it was all above ground level. In fact, a proportion of it is submerged in the pit of the quarry. It was commis­ sioned in 1980 and at the time was one of the most modern in Europe. Its expected lifespan is around 20 years.


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