UK Cabling will help small firms

Richmond Park Road-based UK Cabling has used funding from Business Link South Yorkshire and the European Union-backed Objective 1 regeneration programme to take on new staff and set up a design and layout counter for trade customers.

"Previously, we would have performed the job ourselves, but we became limited to the amount of work we could take on, depending on the number of engineers we had available," explains managing director Jaimie Martin.

"It will provide a point of contact for sub contractors in the region and enable their company to submit tenders for work which they might otherwise not be able to do."

UK Cabling plans to create design plans and technical cable layout and identify material requirements for thinks like door entry and television systems, to enable small electrical companies to take on larger jobs themselves.

It reckons that sharing its expertise with local and smaller electricians will help its own turnover to increase by 20 percent.

Electricians can take on the work themselves, creating bigger margins, and increase their knowledge of the job. The company benefit by taking on more jobs, higher sales of materials and theirlead engineers will always be on hand to assist when needed.

n UK Cabling is helping to transform a run-down factory in Manchester into a 130 million flagship development of 102 apartments.

The firm has won a long-term contract worth more than 100,000 to install door entry systems, satellite TV and phone services as part of the conversion of the historic factory, built in the 1840s by Charles Macintosh – the man who gave his name to the waterproof 'mac.'

By the time the work is finished, the former Charles Macintosh & Co Rubber Works will have become Manchester's Macintosh Village.