Ground breaking

The facility will house all existing functions as well as providing customer training and product demonstration facilities, an additional 30% of manufacturing space and a full service calibration laboratory.

As he took charge of the first shovel-load of earth at the site, Mike Ophield, managing director, said: "Following two years of planning I am really delighted to see this facility reach the ground breaking stage. I would like to thank the combined team from Crowcon and MEPC for bringing us so smoothly to this exciting first step”.

Completion and relocation of current staff and equipment is anticipated during the fourth quarter of 2014.