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Dando Drilling International back in
Penryn.
Dando Drilling International has resumed its engineering presence in Penryn.
After more than 20 years, UK manufacturing company Dando Drilling International has resumed its engineering presence in Penryn West Sussex-based Dando Drilling has been involved in supplying water-well drilling equipment to the developing world since it sank tubewells in Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) in 1868
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 6 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Engineering company Metal Surgery on Kernick industrial estate, Penryn, recently completed and shipped its first Dando rigs.
These water-well drilling machines have been supplied by UNICEF to aid projects in Sri Lanka that are providing communities resettled by the devastating tsunami of December 2004 with access to essential resources; in this case, clean, safe water.
Martin Fitch-Roy, managing director of Dando Drilling, said: "We see re-establishing our relationship with Cornwall as an important part of Dando's recent growth in manu- facturing activity".
"The team at Metal Surgery has the right skills and facilities to do a first-class job of making these highly-specialised, bespoke machines".
"Cornwall has always been a centre of engineering excellence and we have every hope that we will be investing in production in the county into the future." For several years in the 1970s and 80s, Dando produced a range of large water- well drilling machines for export - mainly to Iran - on Kernick industrial estate.
In the past, Dando also worked with Compair-Holman, which supplied bespoke air compressors for its drilling rigs in Camborne, Cornwall.
Compair moved this part of its manufacturing to Germany in 2003.
According to Kingsley Rickard, operations director at Metal Surgery and previously of Compair-Holman: "The relocation of Compair's manufacturing to Germany was a great loss to the area, both in jobs and engineering, and it is extremely important to us that Dando has provided us with the opportunity to produce these drilling rigs in Penryn.".
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