Euro support for Fruehauf
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• Crane Fruehauf has taken on more welders and fitters to meet a sharp increase in orders for chassis from sister companies in France and Germany.
About 60% of its business now comes from other firms within the Societe Europeenne de Semi-Remorques, its Parisbased parent group.
The orders are helping Crane Fruehauf weather the recession, although cost control remains a key area, according to a spokesman. The company imposed a pay freeze in January 1990. Since then 160 people have been given jobs on short and mediumterm contracts, adding to Crane Fruehauf's 800 permanent staff in the UK and Ireland. Gloucester base • Parcelforce has opened a £500,000 purpose-built distribution centre in Gloucester.
Never closes • TNT Express has opened a £3m depot at Hellaby, near Rotherham, which will operate 24 hours a day.
Maestro fleet / The Automobile Association has placed a £4m order with Rover for 400 Maestro 700 L Diesel vans.
Quality call • NFC president Sir Peter Thompson has called on UK firms to make quality their by-word in the 1990s.