Following a ground-breaking ceremony on Thursday 8 May 2003, construction work has now officially started on a new, multi-million pound, hi-tech production facility for UK company, Comyn Ching & Co (Solray) Ltd - the market leading manufacturer of Solray Radiant Panels. The ceremony took place at the 3 acre development site in Gorseinon, near Swansea, and was attended by directors from Comyn Ching & Co, June Burtonshaw (Lord Mayor of Swansea) and a host of other dignitaries, representing the Welsh Assembly, the Welsh Development Agency and the Gorseinon Development Trust. Alastair Comyn Ching, Managing Director at Comyn Ching & Co hosted the event and also took the symbolic first step in the construction process by cutting the first sod. "This is another very special day in the long and proud history of Comyn Ching" said Alastair Comyn Ching speaking at the event. "We have chosen the Swansea area as the home for our new factory because of the many advantages it will bring our business. It will provide us with excellent transport and communication links across the whole UK, access to a highly skilled and reliable engineering workforce from the local area and a first-class manufacturing facility, purpose-built to our specification and with plenty of spare capacity for extra development to meet our future expansion plans.""We are delighted to initiate the building of the factory today" he added. "And, we are especially pleased that our partners in this development who have contributed so much into making our dream a reality - the Lord Mayor, Ron Slater and Mike Rees at the Welsh Development Agency, the Welsh Assembly and the Gorseinon Regeneration Trust - are here with us today to share in its significance." Located on the Garngoch Industrial Estate, the modern, single-storey Comyn Ching & Co factory will cover an area of 28,000 ft2. The factory will create up to 40 local jobs and will feature the biggest, most advanced stud welding plant in the UK, panel assembly, testing and quality assessment areas, a dedicated powder coating plant, parts storage space, offices and extensive loading and unloading facilities. Contractors on the project are Dean & Dyball and the architects are WS Atkins. Local companies are being used extensively in the sourcing and supply of materials used in the construction of the factory. |
