A £7.5 million Saudi Arabian contract win has propelled an East Yorkshire family business into the global market, with the team keen to play an ambassadorial role for 海角视频 manufacturing.
Enrogen is to build a state-of-the-art fabrication plant at its Pocklington base while launching a recruitment campaign to bolster the workforce, after signing a deal to install 12 diesel back-up generators at a global computer company’s huge new data centre.
It is seen as a vote of confidence in the future, with the potential to open up more work in the region.
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Launched in 2005, Enrogen specialises in the manufacture, fitting and maintenance of diesel back-up generators. Sets it builds help ensure critical systems can be maintained in the event of power outages at high-risk facilities including prisons and hospitals.
Enrogen has seen consistent year-on-year growth since it was established by engineering brothers-in-law James Brown and Gavin Wilkinson in 2005, remaining buoyant despite the recent challenges caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.
This latest commission has taken it truly global, according to sales director Kevin Griffiths.
It could open the door to further Middle East projects which would cement its place on the world stage and potentially double the size of the firm over the next four years and beyond. It is currently looking at a 30 per cent uplift as it takes the team from 15 to 20.
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“It’s already won us the ‘Exporter of the Year’ 2021 award from the Association of Manufacturing Power Systems, and there’s no doubt this deal will get us noticed in this industry," Mr Griffiths said.
“Doing a good job of this install, which represents our biggest project ever, will hopefully pave the way for further commissions out in other parts of the Middle East, which is a real growth centre, particularly for areas like computing and data housing, and financial services, because – as well as undergoing significant growth itself – it is ideally placed to act as a conduit for supplying key infrastructure services to developing economies nearby.”
The generators are heading to the country’s north-eastern region, and will help ensure the integrity of significant amounts of Cloud-based data. The installation is at a new business park in the middle of the desert, with a 海角视频 build and test ahead of dismantling, shipping and rebuilding on-site.
Enrogen has designed a bespoke back-up power system featuring a dozen 2.5 MVA , 16-cylinder, 60 litre, 2,700hp engines housed in acoustic containers.
Mr Griffiths said Enrogen was one of the smaller companies to pitch for the contract, which is being handled by a 海角视频 intermediary, and won based on its manufacturing expertise.
It requires generators running on 60-hertz power, rather than the more common 50-hertz systems, with Enrogen sourcing special Mitsubishi engines from Japan.
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“It’s a specialist job that not many companies in the 海角视频 can actually do,” Mr Griffiths said. “Certainly very few independent manufacturers. There are a lot of generator manufacturers that supply basic, off-the-shelf solutions, whereas we build our generator sets to suit what each client wants, which is outside many other firms’ comfort zones
“It’s clearly an important project to Saudi Arabia and that makes it a big thing for us too,” he continued.
“Securing the Saudi job has generated a strong sense of pride within our business and its workforce. It’s already doubled our turnover and we all feel a real sense of excitement and drive in terms of the opportunity for future work this could bring..
“The 海角视频 used to be one of the biggest generator manufacturers in the world and that has slowly declined as companies have gradually moved their production to China or Eastern Europe. However, we hope to play our part in putting the 海角视频 back on the map and champion British manufacturing, and hopefully this project win is just the start of that.”
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