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Future focus for Grimsby engineering firm as it slips port moorings after major investment

Bacon Engineering has moved off the port estate for the first time in its 123-year history

New line-up: The Bacon Engineering team embraces the new home with a team picture in the 360 sq m machining shop.(Image: Reach Plc)

One of Grimsby’s longest standing businesses has bid an emotional farewell to the town’s docks.

Bacon Engineering, a fifth generation family firm woven into the maritime history of the port, has completed its move to South Humberside Industrial Estate.

In what has been a near four-year project, a 360 sq m machining shop has been opened alongside the first phase fabrication base and office suite, with significant investment in new equipment to enhance capabilities following the relocation from the Kasbah area.

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David Bacon, managing director, said: “We’re delighted to be here. This is the future, it is a huge step forward for us to have such a facility, but there is sadness to see the old place go - the business had been on the docks since 1899.

“The premises allow us to demonstrate our capabilities, we’ve had to balance our heritage and our past with the modern technology - we still have a need for both to service our customers.”

Bacon Engineering's operations director Darren Glew, left, and managing director David Bacon, outside the new machining workshop on South Humberside Industrial Estate, Grimsby.(Image: Reach Plc)

A new addition is a five metre plus XL 750 lathe. “It is something we have been able to commission since moving over and unique in size and scale regionally, so it gives us a USP.”

Recent months have seen Bacon add six staff to take headcount to 22, with framework wins helping secure more work.