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Deeside
Timberframe
Enhancing efficiency
Alongside investing in valuable partnerships, it has a dedication to sustainability and has signed up to a net-zero strategy in conjunction with Scottish Enterprise, examining operational areas such as forklift movements, waste utilization, sourcing electricity for its factories, haulage requirements, company vehicles and paper usage across the businesses.
While remaining committed to green initiatives, Deeside has also expanded and upgraded its facility in Throsk for higher capacity and automation.“ This investment was all about balancing our skill and experience with health and safety, process output and efficiencies, while still giving us a flexible product offering. It was fundamentally about moving the business along in an everchanging industry and positioning ourselves for growth, while giving us more capacity.
We’ ve increased our headcount by about 15 per cent in the last two or three years, we’ ve brought 95 per cent of joist processing inhouse, which was all previously outsourced to a third party, and we’ re now able to make around 40 percent of all our own roof truss developments in-house too.
“ The next big milestone for the business is investment and expansion of our North Scotland premises which will see increased capacity and additional product offering coming on stream in quarter two of this year. This will assist the business growth into the central belt and allow capacity from our Throsk facility to push further into the English market. Behind the scenes, we’ ve been working hard on a digital software called Procore, which was originally designed to help our site supervisors sign off timber kits, but is now being used throughout the entire business for reporting, observations, quality ccemagazine. com 97