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Ebac to share success with regional entrepreneurs

A UK manufacturer of white goods is offering some of the region’s most high profile businesses an insight into its industry journey.

Ebac, based at Newton Aycliffe, is hosting this month’s meeting of the ever-growing Advanced Manufacturing Forum (AMF).

Amanda Hird, Ebac’s Operations Director, will talk about the firm’s investment enabling it to produce washing machines and chest freezers, as well as its core business products of dehumidifiers, water coolers and heat pumps.

She will speak about the company’s challenges and progression, before leading a tour of its current 200,000 sq ft factory, the workplace of its 220-strong workforce.

The meeting will follow the usual monthly format which includes a ‘Manufacturer’s Round-up’ which gives attendees the opportunity to hear from other firms and benchmark their own company’s performance with others.

Thirty businesses from around the area have so far signed up to go along. Ian Fawdon, chairman of the AMF, based in Eldon Road, South Shields, said: “Ebac is certainly one of this region’s success stories.

“Manufacturing is so topical at the moment as the Government looks to help kick-start the industry here and re-create the thriving culture as we once had.

“Our members and guests will enjoy hearing from Amanda how Ebac have achieved this in what is still a tough economic climate.”

The forthcoming meeting is Ebac’s second listing on the AMF monthly agenda following Managing Director Pamela Petty’s acclaimed presentation to members last year.

Ebac and its group of companies is a foundation which has grown over the past 30 years from a two-man band operating out of a garage, to its current factory in Newton Aycliffe.

It took the management team seven years to reach £1m turnover per year – but the firm now averages a £1m turnover every month.

At the start of the year, Ebac struck a deal to stock its freezer-line with Argos and Amazon.

It has also previously praised the impact of a £1m Regional Growth Fund (RGF) grant after starting work on producing the washing machine line.

To book a place at the event - in Ketton Way (Site 1), Aycliffe Industrial Park, Newton Aycliffe, on Wednesday,October 21, from 12-2pm –contact: jack.rae@advancedmanufacturingforum.co.uk .

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