Quinn Group used to have four working quarries to draw on
for raw material. Each quarry was unique with a different type of material and
each was essential in creating the recipes for products that made Quinn Group
the best manufacturing company in Ireland.
This was all before the days of Anglo Irish Bank getting
involved. Now it is down to just one quarry as the other three are now
exhausted and it does not have the correct material in order to service Quinn
Group Manufacturing.
These four quarries were in close proximity to the
manufacturing plants. Sadly when they sacked everyone who knew anything about
quarries and put people in charge who know nothing about quarrying, production
and sourcing raw material what else is to be expected?
It can take at least five years even more now to develop a
quarry to the stage where you can begin to extract raw material. First of all to find a suitable quarry and
someone who is prepared to sell you the land. That’s just the start. Sean Quinn had very experienced people who
knew all the stages that had to be completed to get a new quarry started. That skill-set was lost when they sacked all the senior management. Other staff in
the know took redundancy as they could see no light at the end of the tunnel.
The present management don’t even know what type of stone they
are looking for as they have no experience in quarrying and manufacturing but
the biggest problem they have now is no one wants to sell them any quarry land. "You could say
they are getting boycotted".
They left it too late and now are facing a huge dilemma
where will they get raw material from and all because they thought they could
come and do what they like to honest hard working people of the border region
and destroy a great company and a great community.
Raw material can be brought in by lorry from any part of
Ireland but the huge costs involved rule that out but then again they may just
do. They are doing much the same when they tanker cement to Kent in England that is costing a fortune in delivery charges. Uk Cement companies are just sitting back and
letting them just get on with it for it’s just a matter of time before the edifice
come tumbling down.
So unless we see a quick change of management and political attitudes,
Quinn Group manufacturing will cease to manufacture and create jobs what it did
best when Sean Quinn was in charge.
Once Sean Quinn is back in charge quarry land will be
readily available and we can once again restart building our communities and
giving future generation hope in the border regions.
1 comment:
As current management can't be trusted, owing to all the lies they have told, they will get no-one locally to sell them land. The Irish media may scorn the "culchies" but they are not stupid!! It's the new management, who fail to recognise their inadequacies.
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