SCOTTISH temporary power company Aggreko, one of Scotland's big international success stories, welcomed HRH the Princess Royal yesterday to perform the official opening of its £22 million manufacturing facility at Lomondgate in Dumbarton.
Aggreko relocated its manufacturing operations to Lomondgate, from its previous site at Dumbarton, earlier this month.
The Glasgow-based FTSE-100 company noted the new facility had secured "around 400 jobs for the area".
Aggreko chief executive Rupert Soames said: "We are honoured that HRH the Princess Royal has visited Aggreko and we were proud to be able to show her around our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Dumbarton.
"She met many of the people working there and she showed a keen interest in our business."
Aggreko said: "The town faced the possibility of the loss of 250 highly skilled jobs unless a site suitable for integrating all Aggreko's design, engineering and manufacturing needs could be found, three years ago.
"The company's existing manufacturing facility had become too small to cope with the company's rapid international growth."
It added: "The board of the Strathleven Regeneration Company with backing from West Dunbartonshire Council, Scottish Enterprise, Diageo and the Walker Group moved rapidly to suggest a 16-acre site within Lomondgate, SRC's mixed-use development of a 120-acre former J & B Whisky site."
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