News

LED Hi Sport Luminaire puts college sports hall at the top of the class

21 Feb , 2019  

Fitzgerald Lighting has recently been involved in the installation of a new LED lighting scheme at the sports hall of Nescot College in Epsom, Surrey. North East Surrey College of Technology (Nescot) has become one of further education’s success stories. Attracting learners from the local community, nationally and from overseas, Nescot’s range of courses include […]

News

Hardware sector experienced revenue rise of 8.7% in 2018 according to HAI

18 Feb , 2019  

Members of Hardware Association Ireland, the national representative body for over 370 hardware and DIY retailers, builders merchants, and manufacturers and distributors across Ireland, have reported average year-on-year revenue increases of 8.7% for 2018. This follows a 9% increase in Q4, compared to the same period in 2017. In what was a standout year for […]

News

Cairn Homes in new Joint Development with NAMA

14 Feb , 2019  

Cairn Homes, the leading Irish homebuilding company, has announced the signing of an investment venture agreement with the National Asset Management Agency creating a vehicle aiming to build in excess of 550 new homes on a 14.5 acre development site adjoining Cairn’s Parkside development, off the Malahide Road, in Dublin 13. Under the investment venture […]

,

News

BAM acquires stake in Irish modular homes specialist MHI

14 Feb , 2019  

BAM has acquired a non-controlling share in leading modular homes provider Modern Homes Ireland (MHI). MHI constructs quality assured steel-framed homes and commercial buildings within a precision-controlled environment with units being up-to 95 per cent constructed before leaving the factory. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed. BAM has taken the strategic step with […]

News

EDGE Innovate invests £8m in new plant and new people as business grows

14 Feb , 2019  

Dungannon based EDGE Innovate is implementing a four year expansion programme focused on innovation, employment, skills development and export growth. The company is investing nearly £8 million in the business including an expansion of its production and office facilities and the construction of a new 37,500 ft2 factory. The investment also includes the creation of 80 […]

News

Mercedes-Benz to exhibit at National Construction Summit

12 Feb , 2019  

Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles division will be amongst the leading exhibitors attending the forthcoming 5th Annual National Construction Summit, taking place at Citywest, Dublin on March 14th next. Coupled with a manned trade stand, models showing from its light commercial vehicle range will be the popular mid-sized Vito van and X-Class pickup – a unit designed […]

News

Hardware Association Ireland appoints Sean Moran as President

7 Feb , 2019  

Hardware Association Ireland (HAI), the national representative body for over 370 hardware and DIY retailers, builders merchants, and manufacturers and distributors across Ireland, has appointed Sean Moran as its new President.  Sean is CEO and majority shareholder of the Home Project Centre Group, which currently has 14 trading units around the country, employs 250 people […]

News

Komatsu brings sparkle to Bauma

30 Jan , 2019  

A touch of sparkle visits the Komatsu stand at the Bauma 2019 construction machinery trade fair in Munich this year with the promise of a number of ‘world premieres’, details of which will not be released until the event itself in April. Forecasting what these ‘under wraps’ developments might be, industry watchers point to the […]

News

Italy’s earthquake rubble recycled on-site using Northern Irish machinery

29 Jan , 2019  

Dungannon company Kiverco has won its first export success in the Italian market. The deal, worth six figures, sees its mobile recycling plant used to help recover post-earthquake rubble in Umbria, central Italy. Kiverco consults, designs, manufactures and builds robust recycling plants to suit all types of waste streams. The company has worked with Invest […]

News

Portadown engineering firm to double workforce as it opens new manufacturing facility

29 Jan , 2019  

Boyce Precision Engineering has officially opened its new manufacturing facility and announced plans to almost double its workforce as part of a £6.9m investment. The company has built a new facility at Charlestown Road Industrial Estate on a site purchased from Invest Northern Ireland. The investment is part of a five year project to increase […]