Plans are underway to construct a new purpose-built production and sales facility in a green field site in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The land has been purchased and completion of the new factory is anticipated in mid-summer 2003. Moving the manufacturing plant and the 110 employees from the existing site just three miles away should be complete by the autumn.
The design of the new facility is influenced by the commissioning of a new corporate headquarters for the group in Schaan, Liechtenstein, housing the production, management and administration offices, as well as the R&D facilitites. "Our buildings should mirror our corporate culture of innovative energy but still be recognisable as production centres," said Neutrik CEO Werner Bachmann. He added: "The presence of a manufacturing and sales facility in the UK, servicing the UK market, is part of a key strategy to maintain close and effective links with our home market customers."
(Lee Baldock)
