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EXECUTIVE
REPORT
The facility includes individual service and
testing bays for particular product categories.
Successful specialist
Andrews Sykes’ new flagship depot in Birmingham shows
the scale of the company’s operations as it plans for further
growth. Alan Guthrie attended the official opening.
For an organisation that achieved an annual turnover for the year failures, and we can respond immediately. “The fleet reflects current
ending December 2007 of just under £58m, the Andrews Sykes trends and market requirements. Health & Safety considerations have
group keeps a surprisingly low profile. As Managing Director Paul led to increased demand for indirect fired heaters and fully bunded
Wood says, “We do not go out of our way to grab headlines. We build fuel supplies. Similarly, modern buildings tend to be better insulated
our reputation on what we do, not what we say we will do.” Its main with reduced heating needs. We have compensated by increasing our
boiler range for larger-scale requirements, making the business less
seasonally dependent.”
Scrupulously clean and tidy
The Birmingham depot includes individual service and testing bays
for particular product categories, and the facilities are kept
scrupulously clean and tidy. Special racking and materials handling
systems have been introduced to facilitate high-level equipment
storage. In order to test and service larger specialist fleet items,
the premises have had a substantial 3in diameter gas main installed,
plus a 600A electrical supply.
The flagship facility exemplifies the new procedures and practices
that the Andrews Sykes management team has implemented since
Paul Wood’s appointment, initially as Director of Operations in March
Paul Wood with former Aston Villa footballer Andy Townsend, who officially opened the new depot.
2006, becoming Group Managing Director the following December.
trading subsidiary, Andrews Sykes Hire, specialises in supplying air He has a thorough understanding of the business, having originally
conditioners, heaters, pumps, chillers and boilers, both in the UK and joined the Sykes Pumps operation as a workshop technician 30
certain overseas markets (Andrews Air Conditioning and years ago. “We have started a programme of examining each of our
Refrigeration undertakes fixed installations). Last year saw it return UK depots, beginning in the south west of England,” he says. “As well
its second best ever operating profit, despite a much cooler summer as ensuring that standards and systems are maintained, we will look
than in 2006, which was a record for the business. at each site to see if it is optimally located. For example, we are
However, the group recently took the opportunity to raise its profile
with the official opening of its new flagship depot in Birmingham.
Occupying a former Christian Salvesen distribution facility on the
Gravelly Industrial Estate, close to junction 6 of the M6,
it incorporates 36,000ft
2
of warehousing, offices and servicing
facilities, with 50,000ft
2
of yard space. Open 24 hours/day, seven
days/week, it effectively replaces three previous locations in
Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton.
“The increased storage area enables us to accommodate more than
2,000 portable air conditioners, an extensive fleet of heaters,
2-12in pumps, chillers ranging from 30-750kW and boilers from
100-500kW,” says Dennis Gwynne, Director of Technical Services.
“We keep extensive stocks to meet urgent requests from customers
with emergencies, such as hotels or hospitals with hot water system
The Andrews Boilers business has grown rapidly.
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