Optimised engineering solutions Intelect UK

Locations in Teesside | Humberside | Midlands

OPTIMISED ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS

Intelect UK is a market leading engineering company that provides hightech expertise to the food and beverage manufacturing industries, water utilities, energy and heavy industry sectors.

Intelect was founded in Middlesbrough in the UK in 1997 by the four existing directors of the company working under the leadership of Francis Cormican. Today the Intelect brand leads the field in its chosen disciplines and has turnover in excess of £20 million per year.

Simple values driving growth

Since it was formed in 1997, Intelect has blossomed into an engineering powerhouse on the strength of the work commissioned by many of Europe’s leading brands, including Nestlé, Mars, PepsiCo and Walkers. In the past 12 months alone the company has gained many other major contracts from food and beverage brands such as KP Snacks and Tetley Tea. Its position in the market is enhanced by the fact that it is one of the strongest independently owned engineering companies to specialise in the installation of food process and packaging equipment. Its ability to innovate and tailor-make its services to suit a precise need has helped promote it to the industry’s top table.

Mr Cormican said, “The culture has always been friendly with a family feel. The organisation has grown from the initial four people to associated companies with over 200 directly employed personnel. Our values have always been very simple: to give a dedicated service and value for money. It’s nothing more elaborate than that. We find if we stick to these values we have plenty of repeat work and we build up great customer relationships. Our core strength is our employees: we have assembled a very disciplined and experienced workforce that is fully competent in all aspects of food industry manufacturing, packaging and distribution.

“The defining features of Intelect UK are its reliability and being able to offer the full turnkey solution. We are finding more and more these days that engineers want a one-stop solution. That is, a company that can manage the customer’s engineering needs from initial concept and installation of machinery to the installation of services and commissioning, both mechanical and electrical. This is in addition to us providing fully compliant automation and control with relevant control panels, software and a dedicated team of experienced personnel to cope with the installation of equipment within demanding time constraints.

“These services are all backed up by our engineers and unrivalled project management experience. Intelect holds all of these disciplines inhouse which ensure we can supply the optimal quality and reliability that our customers have come to expect from us.”

Innovation built-in

Research and development have always played a pivotal role at Intelect as industry attitudes and specifications have changed over the years, especially with reference to hygiene, infestation prevention and, more recently, allergens. The company also remains innovative in relation to the installation of its products and how it designs and

manufactures platforms and conveying systems with these considerations in mind. The electrical installation techniques have been adapted over the years from enclosed trunkings to open, full-welded stainless steel basket trays that can easily be washed down. It always considers the whole production cycle of the product with the need for on-going access, maintenance and so on.

Mr Cormican added, “Our growth has been organic over the 18 years we have been in business, but we see potential to work with the many companies who have not heard of the Intelect brand name – the smaller food manufacturers who do not have the full engineering support and back-up of some of the larger organisations. We think that a total engineering solutions company such as ourselves will be a perfect fit.

“Our short-term goals are to continue consolidating our position as a leading expert within the field and to expand the brand which is Intelect. Our medium-term goals are to expand our workforce, build upon our very strong customer base and be the company of choice when a food process/packaging project is being discussed. We successfully exhibited recently at the Foodex trade show at the NEC Birmingham in April and were very excited to be involved. This international event gave us a unique platform to explain to both new and potential customers about the services we can offer to the industry as a whole.”

Close inspection

“Intelect ensures at all times we are ahead of legislation: we are currently accredited to ISO9001:2008 and more recently BS EN1090 for steel fabrication for platforms and access.

“All electrical installation work is inspected and tested by fully qualified engineers and is completed in accordance with the British Standard BS7671 and the NICEIC governing body. All electrical work is closely supervised by the company’s own NICEIC qualified supervisors to ensure that electrical work is compliant with the current version of the IET Wiring Regulations and in accordance with the Electricity at Work Act 1989.

“These, coupled with our health and safety accreditation, ensure at all time we offer a first class service to both our client and our employees.” n

For further details of Intelect UK’s innovative products and services visit: www.intelectuk.com