18 | Aycliffe Today Business
Left to right: Service engineers Liam Peel and Phil Robinson, office supervisor Carolyn Shore, operations manager Richard Simpson, sales director Myles Mander, Gardner Denver area sales manager Graham Read and ACB sales director Paul Sparke.
Aycliffe Today Business editor Martin Walker meets an ambitious firm which is targeting growth after relocating to new premises on Aycliffe Business Park …
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ACB SET FOR LIFT- OFF AFTER AYCLIFFE RELOCATION
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North-East firm which specialises in air compressors and blowers has fully relocated to Aycliffe Business Park amid ambitious growth plans.
Air Compressors and Blowers( ACB) first launched a satellite office in Aycliffe two years ago, with plans to eventually move its Gateshead operation down the A1 to Newton Aycliffe.
Now, after experiencing year-on-year growth for the last four consecutive years – and having identified Aycliffe as a stronger central location for its growing client base – ACB has relocated to new premises on Whinfield Drive.
The firm has completely renovated previously vacant space at the two-storey 2,000 sq ft offices and workshop, which sit adjacent to Cumbie Way just across the road from ROF 59.
And for the firm’ s sales director and local resident Paul Sparke, who completed a toolmaking apprenticeship on the business park
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in his former days, is hopeful the move will springboard ACB to new heights.
ACB, which is part of the TFG group of companies, is the only authorised distributor of Gardner Denver products in the North East, including CompAir and Elmo Rietschle, and already has more than 300 clients on the books, stretching from the Scottish Borders down to Wetherby and across to Cumbria.
The company, which has nine office staff and 15 field engineers, is also a distributor of Hydrovane, Reavell and Elmo Rietschle compressed air and vacuum equipment.
After seeing turnover climb in recent years, ACB has now targeted Aycliffe Business Park as a prime new HQ, having already established deals with the likes of Primex Plastics, PTSM and Steel & Alloy in Aycliffe, as well as with the Veolia Power Station and Hydram Engineering in nearby Chilton and Wilson Art in Shildon.
“ When we looked into, we only had a small percentage of clients from around our