Dust extraction engineer CADES Ltd has reported that 2002 was its best year to date, helped by extensive in-house improvements.
The Bradford company spent up to £50,000 on two new vehicles, SAGE contract accounting software, expanding its team of technical specialists and upgrading its offices.
Sales director Jim Watson said profitability increased last year by 12%, mainly due to efficiency improvements from the new accounting system.
During 2002 it commissioned a six-figure extraction layout at the Huntingdon factory of flat pack systems maker Shearform, which supplies big retail furniture stores.
Other big recent jobs include installations at Utopia Furniture and Omega plc, while some 30 smaller contracts were also completed in 2002 with extraction capacity below 20,000cfm.
In 2001, CADES installed what it says is Britain’s biggest extraction layout at Magnet‘s Keighly factory. The contract was worth £1m and included 25 fansets mounted in externally sited acoustic enclosures and 6,000 linear metres of flanged and clipped QA ducting.
Mr Watson said the contract confirmed the company’s position as a leading player in big volume extraction installations.
He said: “The bigger companies have more to lose through dust extraction inefficiencies, just because of the scale of operations. There’s so much riding on each individual link in the production chain, any one of which can bring things to an expensive standstill.”
