Manufacturing Today Issue - 244 January 2026 | Page 230

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Having remained a family business for over a century, Adey is now on its fourth generation of leadership. Company Director, Andrew Adey begins with some details about its people:“ We’ re proud to have kept the company in our family and privately owned since the very beginning. We’ ve got an exceptional senior management team, and our board is a small but well-formed group of experts from across the industry.
“ In total, we employ about 140 people at our main facility in Loughborough, Leicestershire. That includes managers, accountants, technicians, engineers, and more. Everyone works from the same sixacre site, which has been our home for many decades,” he adds.
Over the past 15 years, Adey has strategically targeted the infrastructure market. Expanding its product offering to support clients across the sector has become a core business principle and one of the company’ s most significant drivers of growth. As Andrew explains:“ We’ ve recently been working on railway systems and have worked on several highways to increase safety..
“ Beyond the transport sector, we also provide critical services to the UK energy industry. In recent years, we’ ve increasingly partnered with substation facilities and power transmission centers. Much of this work focuses on supporting the transition to sustainable energy by supplying the essential tools and infrastructure.
“ We do this by delivering smarter, more efficient solutions for renewable energy projects. Our work supports the reliable distribution of
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