NG Developments celebrated the New Year by scooping more than £2million worth of new manufacturing contracts and March and April were even more fruitful.

NG Developments (Normanton) Ltd, based in Normanton, Wakefield is now recognised as one of the UK’s leading specialists in design, manufacturing and installation of architectural aluminium glazing and Rainscreen Cladding systems and its reputation is growing.

The business has been on a huge recruitment drive in the last six months and it has hired three more new team members in March and April. Two experienced draughtsmen and a new fabricator have joined the Normanton team. Collectively the company has now grown by more than 40% in less than 12 months but the directors are prudent and are determined to control expansion.

Adrian Lee, commercial director at NG commented: “With the budget being announced recently it is clear that times are tough and we have all seen that in the construction and manufacturing sectors. However, the sun has finally come out in 2011 and I believe Spring is also here in the economy too. Whilst we continue to build strong working partnerships with our current client base, we are being approached frequently by a number of potential new clients of late and are in the infancy stages of developing further partnerships.”

NG Developments has recently completed three different supermarkets (see enclosed images) including a new Sainsburys store in Nantwich. The 60,000 sq ft Nantwich store was the first project for NG working with Bowmer and Kirkland. As a result of the success of this partnership, NG has recently secured a further Sainsburys development with B and K at Welwyn Garden City.  To add to this, NG has been awarded another Tesco extension contract in Mansfield for Vinci.

Sainsbury’s press release describes the reasons behind the Nantwich project:

The store on Middlewich Road was knocked down and rebuilt to offer an extra 23,500 sq ft of sales space. In addition to a new Sainsbury’s café on the upper level with panoramic views of the store, the 60,000 sq ft superstore now has a full range of clothing, homeware and electrical products. Its range of counters has also been extended with new pizza and deli counters.

Lee continued: “We are establishing some really strong working partnerships which have helped us move the business forward over the last twelve months. We know that to grow in this sector you must be careful and not grow too quickly, so we have made a conscious decision to grow wisely rather than rapidly. However, we do expect to be recruiting again over the near future.”

NG Developments is also in contract negations on a number of other glazing projects which will help to secure a significant workload for the foreseeable future.

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NG Developments (Normanton) Ltd, based in Normanton, Wakefield and one of the UK’s leading specialists in design, manufacturing and installation of architectural aluminium glazing systems and Rainscreen Cladding systems saw exceptional growth in 2010 and in 2011 that has continued to the tune of more than £2million.

The Yorkshire manufacturing business has already secured five new projects and the growing influx of new business has enabled it to go on a major recruitment drive in the last six months, with a full-time receptionist and two new team members joining its installation team adding to the five new staff that joined in 2010.

Adrian Lee, commercial director at NG commented: “There is no doubt we are really happy the way 2011 has started for us, despite the gloomy way the UK economy looks at the moment. The good thing for our business is we now know we have enough work to see us well into the latter stages of this year. However, we still have a number of other exciting projects in the pipeline and we are always looking to win new business and expand even further. As a company we are hoping to create jobs this Spring not cut them.”

One of the projects that NG Developments has been commissioned to work on is a new Travelodge in Manchester working alongside contractor Marcus Worthingtons. This will be NG’s second Travelodge in only three months, as its team is currently putting the finishing touches to another hotel in Hull.
Lee continued: “We are really enjoying ourselves at the moment and looking to the future; as a company we have big plans to grow and develop and these new contracts will help us along that path. Investment in our manufacturing department continues with the purchase of a new Elumatec double-mitre saw, which will help increase overall productivity even further.”

NG Developments will be busy in the coming months helping with the rolling out of two new Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schools across the Sheffield area, the first of is The City School, a contract in excess of £1Million.

It has also landed a new contract to help with the construction of a new Starbucks’ coffee shop and an office block refurbishment in Northampton.
NG Developments is now in contract negations on several other multi-million pound deals planned for the second half of 2011.

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NG Developments (Normanton) Ltd, based in Normanton, Wakefield and one of the UK’s leading specialists in design, manufacturing and installation of architectural aluminium glazing systems has seen phenomenal growth in 2010 and was recently commissioned to work on several new schools, hotels and supermarkets including Tescos, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Lidl stores.

Business is booming for the Yorkshire business which has secured almost 40 new contracts already this year. The influx of these new contracts has resulted in NG Developments having to recruit further staff, with five new people joining the team in 2010.

Adrian Lee, commercial director at NG commented: “There is no doubt we have been really busy in 2010, landing a similar annual number, yet larger contracts, but we are not complacent. The real growth area in our sector at the moment has been in retail and in particular the supermarkets. All of the leading supermarkets appear to be building new or extending existing stores at the moment across the country. You don’t have to travel very far to see this.

NG Developments has also recently been commissioned to start work on several new schools and a new Travelodge on Pryme Street in Hull, which has been designed by Harris Partnership in Wakefield. The team are currently finalising the design with an install date programmed to start in October 2010.

NG’s scope of works includes the majority of the envelope package to include SAS Curtain Wall and Windows, ACM Reynobond panels using the Sotech Flexi Rainscreen cladding system and a continuous louvered plant enclosure. This is the first Travelodge for NG but it is hoped this will be the first of many to come.

Lee continued: “Although we have been busy this year and have seen substantial growth in the retail sector of the industry, I doubt we’ll see any major market growth on the whole in the immediate future. The new governments public spending cuts in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, has created another big hole to fill throughout the construction industry and of the projects that have been cut, a lot of money has already been wasted at tender stage as a result. The idea appears to be that the private sector will pick-up the slack but only time will tell if the velocity of the private sector growth will match the decline in public sector work.”

These latest contract wins cap a remarkable year for NG Developments, In November NG Developments celebrated building Europe’s largest mosque which was all built to a completely bespoke design, and in May it announced a flurry of new supermarket contracts which have continued to grow and grow.

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A contemporary new-build 3 storey classroom block and 4 storey atrium, integrated with the existing traditional stone built school; part of which was re-modelled and included within NGs’ scope of works.

The package included for the design, manufacture and installation of:

• Technal MX curtain wall, FXi46 and 65 windows, CD automated and manual doors
• Sotech extruded wall-plank rainscreen cladding
• Renson brise soleil
• Bespoke internal and external balustrading

NG Developments (Normanton) Ltd, based in Normanton, one of the UK’s leading specialists in the design, manufacture and installation of architectural aluminium glazing systems has been asked to help construct three new glazed facades for a variety of supermarkets spread across the UK.

The new supermarkets include contracts for a huge Tesco store in Hanley, a Morrisons’ store in Openshaw and a Sainsburys’ venue in Biddulph, totalling in excess of 3500m² of Curtain Walling. These new business wins have added extra strength to NG’s growing portfolio of supermarket projects. In December 2009, NG Developments won the contracts for three Tesco stores in Skipton, Barnsley and Newcastle along with two Aldi stores in South Yorkshire.

Adrian Lee, commercial director at NG commented: “It’s no secret that the last two years have been a difficult time for businesses in general across the UK. However, towards the end of last year we started to win contracts for a number of supermarket projects, a sector still thriving, which has continued into 2010. In total, the supermarket side of our business has increased by more than 500%. As we operate in a very competitive industry, we’re thrilled to have landed these contracts.

Lee continued: “In recent months we have been busier than we have ever been before and this has resulted in us recruiting four new team members. Although times have been tough we are still completely committed to training our teams, so all of our fabricators are now qualified to a minimum of level 2 NVQ in the Fabrication of Glass Supporting Systems and our design team are about to take their accredited CDM (Construction Design and Management) courses.”

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