Stainless steel company expands at new facility

A NEW plant for a stainless steel engineering company with over €12 million worth of orders on its books was officially opened in Charleville, Co Cork yesterday by Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin.

SkidTek Engineering, which manufactures skids for the pharmaceutical, brewing and food industries, has a workforce of 40 that is set to increase to 60.

The company is a division of the 200-job Charleville-based BCD Group, one of several businesses set up in the Cork-Limerick region after the closure in the 1980s of Golden Vale Engineering, which left behind a pool of expertise and skilled labour.