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10M MOVE BY FIRM CREATES 150 MORE JOBS – 1994
The company was started in Telford in 1990 by its Taiwanese managing director and chairman Mr Jason Tsai, who said work on the £10 million first phase was likely to start in early May, with completion by December - and production starting in Febuary next year. The company employs around 40 people at the moment, a figure which will rise to over 100 within three years, and to around 200 when the second phase is complete, probably within the next five years. Work on the second phase will probably start in about three years time. "This investment will enable us to give a better service to our growing UK and continental customer base," Mr Tsai said. Chairman of Telford Development agency, Jim Hicks, said: "Enta is a real Telfor success story. The company has grown to employ 40 staff in it's short life and this new plant will boost the workforce within three years to 100." Enta supplies computer components and systems and has seen turnover grow from ? million to over ?0 million a year.
The plant will be built in two phases, which when complete will see 100,000 sq ft of manufacturing and warehousing in traditional factory style. But the 40,000 sq ft of offices, showrooms and ancillary accommodation will be built in chinese pagoda-style with many of the materials being specially imported from China. The building has been designed by Shifnal-based Wrekin Construction, which looks set to carry out the construction work - safeguarding local jobs. Currently operating from rented premises at Hortonwood, Enta has bought the new five-acre site from the commission of the New Towns.
A real taste of China could be springing up on a shropshire industrial estate. For a planned £10 million European headquarters for a Taiwanse company includes two pagoda-style buildings with a distinctive far eastern flavour. They will form part of computer equipment manufactuer and distributor Enta technologies' new plant on a five acre site at Stafford Park, Telford subject to the necessary planning permission. Company chairman and managing director Jason Tsai already has his own "Taiwan social club" at his home in Telford, plus a pagoda and bridge within the garden.
Shropshire Star
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