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IN Road tanker specialist Massey Tankers has increased its workload and employee count following a £1.5m investment on a new purpose-built factory.
The specialist tank manufacturer, part of the GRP Group, has moved from Clitheroe to the old power station at Shuttleworth Mead Business Park in Burnley, Lancashire, a move which has allowed the company to become more efficient and take on more work, according to sales manager Michael Burton. The old site was ill-equipped, he says, with separate buildings with low
roofs hampering work. Relocation to the 3,600m7 factory situated on a 4,5-acre site, however, has already allowed the company to more than double its workforce to 60 to cope with extra work, says Burton.
Apart from the single pro duclion line which is operated on a one-shift program, Massey provides tanker refurbishment, repairs and maintenance. New orders take eight to 10 weeks to complete, says Burton, and the new factory has enough capacity to turn out around 100 new units a year. Tankers are built predominantly from stainless steel with fibreglass covers and aluminium accessories.
Burton says Massey is now starting to push towards improving market share in the fueVoil markets, as well as the fire service sector.
A lot of the firm's work will remain in refurbishment, however, with old tankers coming in to be extended or stretched to fit new chassis and operate at new weights. Legislation has changed the profile of the company, says Burton, as operators have been quick to take advantage of better payloads on six axles at 44 tonnes. "Most tanker bodies will go through three or four chassis in their lifetime," he says.