ABERDEEN firm Hydrasun initiated work on its new £12million headquarters yesterday.
The holding company for businesses involved in providing fluid connectors, hoses, fittings and process-control instrumentation products and related services to industries including oil and gas is relocating to a development on the south side of the city.
It operates from two main sites in Aberdeen: King Street, where it has its main office and assembly workshops, and Links Place.
Links Place is home to the group’s hose integrity management operations, umbilical manufacturing and store rooms.
Hydrasun’s new HQ at Aberdeen Gateway Business Park at Altens will provide 22,000 square feet of offices and 72,000sq ft of workshops. The expected completion date for the new premises is December.
Hydrasun chief executive Bob Drummond said “We are at a very exciting stage in the company’s development and evolution.
“Our existing premises have served us very well but – as a result of considerable growth in the past few years – the time has come for us to consolidate our operations and build a new company headquarters.”
Mr Drummond was joined at a ground-breaking ceremony by Aberdeen Lord Provost Peter Stephen and Charly Saulnier, president of Hydrasun supplier Parker Fluid Connectors (Europe, Middle East and Africa), who did the turf-cutting.