Valeport, a UK producer of oceanographic and hydrographic instrumentation, is growing its headcount and investing within the enlargement of its south west UK-based premises, which now span over 44,000-sq.-ft. throughout three trendy waterfront buildings.
The environmental sensors producer has acquired an adjoining riverside constructing, which has allowed the subsea specialist to answer the uplift in demand for its precision probes and sensors and to extend manufacturing at its trendy manufacturing facility. The brand new Radcliffe Home will accommodate a lot of Valeport’s office-based employees, enabling the whole thing of the prevailing Sandquay Constructing to be devoted to Valeport Water and Valeport Service.
Valeport has additionally added to its 100-strong workforce, by taking up new employees throughout its Machine Store, Product Meeting, R&D and Service departments, in addition to investing in various apprentices to make sure a long run dedication to expertise improvement to help the corporate’s strong progress plans. The agency, which has been supplying the subsea sector for greater than 50 years, has all the time had a powerful deal with lifelong studying and profession improvement and presently has six apprentices in coaching with an additional ten graduated apprentices totally employed by Valeport.
“The extension to the manufacturing services and extra area will allow us to help our shoppers the world over and guarantee we proceed to be on the forefront of premium, precision sensor expertise,” mentioned Valeport’s Managing Director Matt Quartley. “The rise in our manufacturing capability and new employees to help our enlargement plans places us very a lot on the entrance foot.”
Following refurbishment, together with the addition of recent photo voltaic panels to the roof, the brand new Radcliffe Home is now house to the agency’s Gross sales, Advertising, R&D, HR and Finance departments, creating area for Valeport to increase the manufacturing services in its current Sandquay Constructing.
Alongside the refurbishment of the brand new Radcliffe Home, Valeport has invested to improve their current buildings that home the now expanded manufacturing capabilities. These enhancements to Valeport’s services, embody a latest alternative of the Sandquay Constructing roof to ship elevated thermal effectivity, have solely been made doable by the agency’s acquisition of Radcliffe Home.
Valeport expands to three buildings positioned proper on the River Dart. Picture courtesy Valeport
