31.10.2006

Omme to extend plant

Omme Lift, the Danish producer of trailer and track mounted boom lifts is preparing to start work on an extension to its production facility in Sdr Omme.

The building programme which gets underway later this month, will add 2,460 square metres of assembly hall and 443 square metres of storage to the current 3,310 square metre plant.
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The Omme Lift plant. The extension will cover the ground at the rear of the current buildings

A further 407 square metres will be added to the employee’s area – canteen etc….
The building is expected to be completed in April at a total cost of DK22 million (£2/€3million).
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The area to the north of the Omme plant will be a new assembly hall by April

Omme will also invest in additional tools and machinery to maintain the plants output, which has been growing at a rate of 30 percent per annum over the last three years.
The company already employs 105 at the SDR Omme site and has started a recruitment drive in preparation for the new space.
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The assembly halls at Omme will be more than doubled.

Omme recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
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Omme has transformed from a farm implement company into a well known access company. The employees made and built the first of the current buildings themselves. One imagines that construction of the new buildings will be contracted out.

Vertikal Comment

Harry Lorentsen, owner of Omme is not driven by a need to constantly expand the business for the pure sake of growth. However the company's reputation and sales have been growing solidly over the past four years or so.

Last year the company set up its own sales and service company in Germany that now employs six staff. As a result its revenues in the all important German trailer and spider lift market are growing rapidly, putting more pressure on production capacity.

As if this was not enough its most recent product launches have been very well received, also adding to demand. As a result the company had little choice but to add capacity if it was to maintain its bouyant run.