Technical commissioned its own £1.75m business park

Technical Services, which celebrates it’s 25th anniversary this year, commissioned a £1.75m business park after buying a site adjacent to junction 26 of the M62 at Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire.

The development, which was designed by KPP Architects and built by Thistle Construction, was privately funded.

Technical Services, which has a £1.5m turnover and nine staff, has now moved from Undercliffe in Bradford to a 10,000 sq ft factory at Scandinavia Court, the site of a former mill which has been turned into seven industrial units.

Gerry McMahon, director of Technical Services, said: “We did it because of the recession. We thought it was a good time to do it because there was almost no speculative development going on at the time we were looking to move.

“We looked around for some more space nearer to where we were and decided it was best if we designed something that would give us our own design. Rather than just build a new unit for ourselves we built a whole new site.”

The cooling system specialist supplies fans, viscous fan drives, fan clutches and cooling system controls to the UK and European automotive industry, in particular for trucks and buses and industrial vehicles.

Its new headquarters include research and development facilities to create products for original equipment manufacturing customers and particular technical specifications as well as cooling packages to meet current or future emissions regulations.

The company is looking for firms to lease the remaining six units. Mr McMahon added: “We are talking to a number of people and are close to signing up two tenants already.” For information, visit www.scandinaviacourt.co.uk