Integra announces major plans for growth

The company is in the final stages of acquiring six acres of land next to its site in Paull, east of Hull, and has submitted plans to East Riding of Yorkshire Council to incorporate this area into its operations.

The development of the land will increase the Integra site footprint to over 14 acres and create room to meet the company’s current and future needs.

The expansion will create 20 new jobs and is key to the management’s ambitions to double revenues to £60m within three years.

The land has been earmarked for a new production facility as well as storage, loading and dispatch areas.

Managing director Gary Parker, inset, said: “We need more room to deliver our current projects, service our very healthy order book and continue our growth. We’re already bursting at the seams much of the time.

“It’s also absolutely essential to maintain operations on a single site, for operational efficiency and to maintain our competitiveness. The expansion of our current site, where we have already invested millions in facilities, is the perfect solution.

“This is great news for our employees and our supply chain, the vast majority of which is within East Yorkshire, as well as creating 20 new skilled and semi-skilled production jobs for local people.”

Integra designs and manufactures bespoke modular buildings for customers includings major construction companies, local authorities and other public sector bodies.

The expansion will mark the latest chapter in Integra’s growth, which has accelerated following the consolidation of operations at Paull.

Integra has invested more than £3m transforming its operations at the Paull site. Work included a new office building, which was self-built on site using modular construction techniques and serves as a showcase for the quality of facilities the business creates for clients.

Integra’s development has been supported by a very close working relationship over many years with East Riding Council. The local authority helped it to develop a successful funding bid to the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership’s Growing the Humber programme to assist the company’s investments at Paull.

Pending planning permission, Integra intends to begin work integrating the land into its site in six months.

Mr Parker, who launched Integra with a handful of colleagues in 1997, added: “This latest major investment is critical to future-proofing the business and to our ambitions to accelerate our growth.”

He added: “This is a landmark moment in the development of the company and we’re very excited by the opportunity to move to the next level.”

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