The company was founded 85 years ago, and currently has a site in Spilsby and one in Wainfleet. Once the new factory, also in Spilsby, is complete, everything will be consolidated into the one site. 

 

The development is partly funded by a £500,000 grant from the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, which aims to increase workforce and productivity for local SMEs. 

 

The first phase is intended to finish by spring 2020. Eventually, 26 jobs will be created. 

 

Chairman Charles Tong added: "Spilsby has been our home for almost a century, but as the business has expanded, we have increasingly outgrown our current premises.

 

"Unable to physically expand our site in Spilsby any further, we had no option but to open a second factory almost ten years ago in Wainfleet.

 

"Operating at two sites, ten miles apart, does bring many logistical challenges, and we have been researching the viability of one new purpose-built factory for many years.

 

"As a business we are extremely busy – our UK customers are continuing to invest in advanced equipment and our exports have grown by 40 per cent over the last five years. As we continue to grow, we need bigger, more modern premises to increase our production capacity.

 

"With the support of the Greater Lincolnshire Growth Fund and East Lindsey District Council we are very pleased that we can finally break ground on a new factory.

 

"The project will help us to maintain the most advanced engineering practices, and at the same time we’re creating jobs, boosting economic growth in Lincolnshire and working with local building contractors and services throughout the project."

 

Source: Insider Media Midlands

 

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Factories and production facilities have been using clocking in and out to monitor and measure their employees’ hours for payroll pretty much since the start of factories. The first time-recording machine was invented in 1888!

 

However, there is still plenty of room for factories to modernise their time and attendance systems! 

 

Some companies are still using very old-fashioned methods such as swipe cards or punch cards. Depending on your requirements, we can offer three alternatives.

 

Firstly, if they would like to keep using cards to record their time and attendance in order to disrupt the workforce as little as possible, then we can offer you our contactless proximity smartcards. 

 

These are about the size of an average credit card, and fit in your wallet. The radio frequency technology means that you don’t even have to take them out of the wallet in order to scan them!

 

This completely contactless technique means that the card doesn’t suffer from wear and tear and doesn’t need a battery, and so barring an absolute disaster can go on indefinitely. 

 

The second option is fingerprint scanning. This is useful for factories which have had problems with people losing their cards, or who need to prevent people deliberately swapping cards and clocking in for each other. 

 

Whenever registered users have their fingerprints scanned, a comparison is made between the live fingerprint and the stored fingerprint template and if the two match, the event is saved in the central controller database.