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News Release from: M Halliday & Sons
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 November 2007
Expanding Hallidays hit by skills
shortage
M Halliday and Sons, which has just completed a GBP60,000 investment in a new window-making plant, need more skilled labour, notably qualified bench hand joiners.
Keighley manufacturing joiner M Halliday and Sons, which has just completed a GBP60,000 investment in a new window-making plant, says its future development plans are being thwarted due to an apparent lack of skilled labour, notably qualified bench hand joiners Since moving to a new 35,000sq ft manufacturing unit six months ago, Hallidays has already seen its workforce grow by almost 50% to its current level of 22 people
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 25 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Founder Malcolm Halliday said: "We are desperate to bring in new blood and currently have an urgent need for bench hand joiners and, as our window-making plant business grows, we expect to create more new jobs.
"We are already doing our bit by taking on four new apprentices, who represent our workforce of the future, but we are struggling to enlist time-served people, which raises concerns that there may be a skills shortage across our region, perhaps even a lack of adequate training provision across the industry in general".
Hallidays' lock, stock and barrel relocation from nearby Crossflatts, the company's home since it was established in 1980, itself involved investment in new plant, equipment and stock totalling GBP250,000, and was prompted by the urgent need for more space to meet business expansion potential.
It followed a major coup by Hallidays in securing sole rights from German timber company Holz Schiller, of Regen, to manufacture and sell a range of double-glazed windows new to the UK market place.
Working in partnership with Keighley-based Kelly Developments, the launch of Hallidays' new window manufacturing division has seen the installation of two Hoffman MS 35 double mitre saws, a Hoffmann PP2-H-DB dowel and dovetail routing machine, Morso NF notch cutting guillotines and a Morso KS mini interlocking half-lap router.
In addition, Hallidays has also commissioned a new glass shop to support both existing joinery business and the window-making plant, which is now producing the country's first non-upvc, totally maintenance-free windows made from environmentally friendly engineered timber.
The range, which is already arousing major interest in the UK replacement windows sector, was first showcased at Interbuild 2007 (Birmingham NEC, Oct 28-Nov 1).
Full company and product details are posted on Hallidays' newly upgraded website.
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