RF to set up n north Wales

20th October 1978, Page 7

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Keywords : Sandbach, Erf, Edwin Foden, Sons & Co., Middlewich, Man Se, Business / Finance

RF'S long-awaited new lorry lant is to be built on a site at rexham in North Wales, and hould begin to produce Vehicles early in the 1980s.

It will be built on a 25-acre levelopment site in the town — the exact location was not mown as we went to press — tnd will cater for an expected tpsurge in demand for the :ompany's products.

The Sandbach factory, cornany home for 45 years, is tearing the limits of its output, vith 3,500 vehicles being built ,ach year, most of them for the tome market.

ERF proposes initially to build its new M-Series nedium-weight vehicles at Vrexham, with around five being built each week. This will require a relatively small labour force initially, but the company envisages "many hundreds" of jobs being available once production expands.

Company chairman Peter Foden said this week: "As a British independent truck maker, we are more than pleased to be able to announce an expansion programme which will eventually give us twice our present truck building capacity."

A company spokesman had no qualms about setting up in a traditional mining area when CM spoke to him this week. "The industrial relations in the Wrexham area are, I understand, some of the best in the country," he said.

The new plant is part of a £10m expansion programme for ERF, the first stage being the already-announced £1.5m engineering research and development centre adjacent to ERF's Middlewich service centre.

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