INDUSTRYNEWS
Polyframe
embarks on
major expansion
programme
Polyframe is embarking on the
most ambitious expansion plans
in its 22 year history with the
opening of a fifth factory.
The company has acquired
a second site in their home
town of Halifax, which will
create 300 jobs over the next
three years, for the town and
more than doubles shop floor
manufacturing space to half
a million square feet. Once
the site is fully operational,
Polyframe will employ
approximately 500 personnel
in Halifax and more than 650
group-wide.
This massive investment
has been has been further
increased with a grant from the
Leeds City Region Enterprise
Partnership’s Business Growth
programme, which is supported
by the governments Regional
Growth Fund. These funds will
be used to undertake building
works that are required to alter
the Hopwood Lane site.
Polyfame’s existing Halifax
factory on Gibbet St will
continue to operate as normal,
but with increasing volumes of
windows and doors, additional
manufacturing capacity was
essential for the business to
continue its impressive growth
and development during the last
three years.
The new location is only
200 yards from the current
Gibbet Street site, and covers
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approximately 130, 000 square
feet. The alterations to the
infrastructure of the buildings
will be carried out over the next
few months to create a perfect
workflow for the factory and
ensure that production is as
efficient as possible.
‘Plans for the
new site are
ambitious’
Plans for the new site are
ambitious and as well as
further manufacturing space,
Polyframe also has plans for a
training academy and further
office space at the new facility.
Central to the expansion
programme is for Polyframe
to be able to consolidate the
products manufactured at the
two factories and so maximise
efficiency and utilise space most
effectively.
An integral element of the
Hopwood Lane factory will be
the creation of the Polyframe
Training Acadamy.
The Group currently also
incorporates a nationwide
network of 12 Trade Centres,
selling products to smaller
tradesmen and builders.
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