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10/07/2014
Engineering Firm Announces New Jobs For NI
AGR Automation Ltd, which is headquartered in Arbroath, Scotland, has set up an engineering site in Ballymena creating 22 jobs over five years.
Invest Northern Ireland has offered an employment grant of £220,000 for the jobs, which will initially be mostly mechanical and electrical technician posts. Mechanical, electrical and industrial software design positions will be recruited later.
AGR Automation designs and manufactures high performance bespoke automation solutions for high volume parts assembly, mainly in the medical, personal care and industrial electro-mechanical device markets. It has equipment installed at client operating sites globally.
Derek Gaston, AGR Automation’s Managing Director, said: "By God’' grace AGR has grown rapidly and its engineering capabilities are highly recognised by Blue Chip clients based in Europe and the United States. We undertook a strategic review of our current operations, taking into account future growth projections, and concluded that we needed a second engineering site to increase our capacity to meet demand for our services.
"Having considered a number of locations, we decided that Ballymena offered the best solution in terms of quality, cost and the support available. This second site will initially focus on parts machining and subassembly for the main Arbroath site but, in due course will become self sufficient and contribute to increasing recognition of AGR as a world-class automation supplier."
(CD/MH)
Invest Northern Ireland has offered an employment grant of £220,000 for the jobs, which will initially be mostly mechanical and electrical technician posts. Mechanical, electrical and industrial software design positions will be recruited later.
AGR Automation designs and manufactures high performance bespoke automation solutions for high volume parts assembly, mainly in the medical, personal care and industrial electro-mechanical device markets. It has equipment installed at client operating sites globally.
Derek Gaston, AGR Automation’s Managing Director, said: "By God’' grace AGR has grown rapidly and its engineering capabilities are highly recognised by Blue Chip clients based in Europe and the United States. We undertook a strategic review of our current operations, taking into account future growth projections, and concluded that we needed a second engineering site to increase our capacity to meet demand for our services.
"Having considered a number of locations, we decided that Ballymena offered the best solution in terms of quality, cost and the support available. This second site will initially focus on parts machining and subassembly for the main Arbroath site but, in due course will become self sufficient and contribute to increasing recognition of AGR as a world-class automation supplier."
(CD/MH)
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