Roofclad Systems (Roofclad) is expanding into Yorkshire with the creation of a second office and warehouse in Leeds.
Since the company was acquired for an undisclosed sum in 2014 by David Tilley, who is now its chairman, Roofclad has flourished, with its turnover set to exceed £6 million this year and over 50 full time staff on its books.
With a major contract for Rosti at Stamford Bridge now complete, several roofing contracts are currently underway in the Yorkshire area where the company is on-site with a project at Pasquill Roof Trusses in Rothwell, a contract at Lightcliffe Academy in Halifax, and another at Milthorpe School in York. The firm has also recently picked up a job in Knottingley, Wakefield.
The largest project currently on-site is the redevelopment of the Foss Barrier in York, where the value of the envelope is in excess of £1million.
As managing director, Alex Tilley explains, the new base will allow Roofclad to get a firmer foothold in the north of England and Yorkshire areas. He said: “We get a lot of enquiries from the Yorkshire area and beyond which, until now, we have serviced from our base in the north east, so it just makes sense to set up an office further south.
“Our new Leeds base was previously occupied by a roofing contractor when David bought the office some years ago, so we have been waiting for the right time to bring the space back into full use. We will have 900 sq ft of office space with an adjoining 2,500 sq ft warehouse, which will allow us to take on some big contracts.”
Alex continued: “The office is even more conveniently located than our north east base, in terms of its access to motorways, being south of Leeds and near the M62/M1 corridors – and importantly, it is also big enough to give us scope for future expansion.
“We are committed to creating new jobs – starting with a contracts manager, an office administrator/secretary and some direct operatives, which we hope to appoint in the not too distant future, depending on new projects coming in. We will build the business steadily by meeting up with existing contacts and targeting building owners and management companies for direct contracts within the industrial and commercial sectors.”
