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18/01/2012

Export Orders Rolling Out

YorPower have notched up another record with four 40ft containers full of generators being despatched one after the other on the same day!

The first to leave was a 40ft container full of generators for Kenya while another was being loaded for Ghana with two more going to Nigeria. The YorPower operations team are being kept really busy!

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Managing Director, Ian Thompson, says that continuing high volumes demonstrate that being an independent manufacturer is paying dividends. The operations team, lead by director Steve Hammond, deals with the volumes with total efficiency, the generators roll off the production line straight into the custom built testing rooms then through final inspection and in to the shipping containers.

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