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Press Release
Jan 2008
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Two Scottish
companies working in partnership have contributed to meeting the essential
needs of travelers who will be using Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
Visitors to the toilets at Terminal 5, when it
opens, will be able to admire the high quality interiors that were produced by
Edinburgh based Grant Westfield supported by Phoenix Precision, the high value
sheet metal manufacturer from Glenrothes.
When Grant
Westfield, which produces high specification products for building interiors,
were asked by the main contractors at Terminal 5 to provide washbasin and
hand-drier modules, they had to quickly find a partner in sheet metal
manufacture which could match the demand of very high quality from the
contractor and its own quality standards. They invited Phoenix Precision to
work with them on the products. High and
durable quality and speedy delivery were critical.
Nigel
Patch, Managing Director of Grant Westfield said, “ Having secured the wall
paneling we were asked to step into the breech to provide the washbasins and
hand-driers for T5 late on in the day, but with the right partner we believed
that we could meet the very demanding needs of the main contractor. We needed a
local Scots sheet metal company to work with us and Phoenix stepped up to the
mark. Its quality and business objectives mirrored our own with a very “can do”
attitude. We are delighted to know that our work will be seen and used (!) by
millions of people. Terminal 5 is a state of the art building with which we are
proud to be associated.”
Chic Brodie, Managing Director of Phoenix
Precision, echoed these sentiments and added,
“From
the start of this project and knowing where it was going, you had to feel proud
of the relationship we built with Grant Westfield. From sales and customer
service, through engineering and production, and working with the leadership of
Grant Westfield not once did our eye come off the main objectives of quality and
delivery. The joint teams have done a great job.”
Projects like this would suggest that reports
that indigenous Scottish engineering and manufacturing are on the wane are a
bit premature.”
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