The Business Exchange Swindon & Wiltshire Edition 34: Dec/Jan 2017/18 | Page 6

BUSINESS NEWS Plant hire company takes to the skies! Business owners Stuart Morgan and Andy Rohrer have taken their recently launched plant hire company sky high - accepting a job many others would find too daunting. The company were tasked with transporting two new Hyundai cars from the ground and positioning them inside the fuselage of a Boeing 747 former cargo transporter aircraft. The event, to launch the new models, took place at Cotswold Airport, near Cirencester. Andy Rohrer said: “This is the most unusual job we’ve been asked to do! The cars weighed two tonnes each so we designed a pallet to support the cars while a forklift – itself weighing more than 15 tonnes – was used to lift each car. “Forklifts of this size, with the required mast height, are very rare. There are less than five in the UK available for hire. “It took us four hours to achieve our goal of getting both cars up and inside the fuselage. “It was a specialist job which took weeks of planning. As a company we’re incredibly open to unusual requests. We’ll always consider the jobs no one else will do. We are very proud we were chosen by Cotswold Airport to carry out this task.” Jo Welch, PR and Events Manager at Cotswold Airport said: “Stuart and Andy could not have been more helpful. They did everything exactly according to the brief. It was a pleasure to deal with Tiger Plant and we won’t hesitate to use them again.” Tiger Plant was created when Andy and Stuart, who already worked Make Good Energy in 2018 Founded in 1999, Chippenham-based Good Energy is a purpose-driven company with a mission: To transform the UK energy market by helping homes and businesses be part of a sustainable solution to climate change. They provide 100% renewable electricity, zero carbon gas and are one the largest supporters of the UK Feed-in Tariff in the market. As well as owning its own wind and solar farms, Good Energy buys its renewable electricity from more than 1,400 independent generators across the UK, and Good Energy has always believed that a 100% renewable future with local, decentralised energy generation is the shape of things to come in the UK.  Good Energy works with like-minded businesses and organisations to extend its positive impact beyond its immediate footprint. This includes partnering with organisations like the Soil Association, the National Trust and the Eden Project to inspire individuals and communities to make green energy decisions. Good Energy also helps businesses of all sizes on their renewable energy journey; supporting them to generate their own electricity; providing them with 100% renewables, 6 THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE 2017 and even enabling them to choose which generators their electricity comes from via an interactive platform, Selectricity.  Dr Randall Bowen, Director of Business Sales at Good Energy said: “We are pleased to call ourselves an innovative and thriving company providing real benefits to the local economy, changing the way the UK generates and uses electricity. We provide people with the choice to create a cleaner, greener future together.” In 2018, Good Energy will be working locally and nationally to help businesses switch to 100% renewable electricity. To find out more and do your bit for the environment, call Good Energy on: 0800 254 0021 or email: [email protected] together as property developers and builders, founded the company when they recognised one of their continuing problems on their building sites was getting the right plant to the right place at the right time. Stuart said: “We will consider any job large or small. We want people to know they can come to us with any practical concerns about their commercial project even if it includes putting something into an aircraft! We’ll do our best to provide the equipment, and if needed the specific skills they need to do the job efficiently, cost effectively and safely.” The company, based out of Clearwater Business Park in Swindon, has grown rapidly during its first year of operation. The team offers machines for hire for use by the individual homeowner with smaller building projects right, through to commercial developments. The range of plant available includes micro diggers, a selection of midi diggers and larger diggers up to 20 tonnes. Also available for hire are telescopic and masted forklifts, one to ten tonne dumpers, compaction machines, fuel bowsers and access equipment. For more info: www.tigerplant.co.uk 01793 886444 [email protected] ADMIN OVERLOAD? NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY?