Manufacturing Magazine February 2015 | Page 38

RAWLPLUG

Key Personnel

David Harvey Managing Director Rawlplug Ltd
David has 30 years experience and a highly successful background across our industry . Having delivered impressive results across the fixing industry and has experience in developing and managing sales units and people .
David ’ s skills , recent success and his background will assist Rawlplug Ltd to deliver strong performance outcomes from our existing customers and progress the strong development opportunities in our non performing sales channels .
David ’ s leadership and focus on improvement of existing customers and the development of new opportunities will position him well to drive further development and growth across the Rawlplug Group .
David Harvey has over the past 3 years successfully been developing the sales of EWI and Flat roofing in the UK from 0 % to a significant market share .
Rawlplug has extensive R & D facilities
Investing in Innovation
Research and development ( R & D ) will be a crucial driver of further company growth , and Rawlplug has recently invested in a number of innovative projects to help deliver efficiency and quality for customers .
“ Going forward R & D is imperative ,” Andersson added . “ We have 35 people working on this across three different locations in Glasgow and Poland .
“ Without R & D we don ’ t have a future and we know we have to come up with new and modified products ; this is also about new packaging , new points of sales and new marketing . This is what we have done over the past four years and now we are perfectly placed to hit the global market .”
“ We need to be even more efficient in the factories and communicate better internally
38 February 2015