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Ripon business park extension under way by Econ Engineering

The new development at Canalside Business Park in Ripon will be key to the retention of jobs in the city, the owners of the park, Econ Engineering, say.

The gritter and snow plough vehicle manufacturer said the new site will be essential to the expansion of the firm’s hire division, enabling Econ to store more than 400 vehicles close to its Ripon factory, which employs over 200 staff.

Jonathan Lupton, operations director at Econ Engineering, said: “The fact that we were granted planning permission to develop this site means that we will be able to further expand our growing gritter hire business, which supplies local authorities up and down the country with winter maintenance vehicles.

“We currently have to store vehicles at a number of different sites but this new, landscaped site will enable us to store our entire hire fleet close to the factory.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .