Although they “could do with a bit more work,” according to managing director Steve Jones, the north Wales-based company named after a local area is performing according to expectations.
All seven Mona Lifting employees worked for the lifting department of Cambrian Lifting, supplying rigging gear, hoists and crane systems and inspecting, testing and maintaining lifting equipment.
Although Cambrian Lifting began to diverge into making wind turbine towers, lack of orders forced the company into administration into early 2004. In September 2004, it was bought and became Cambrian Caledonian.
Steve Jones, then manager of the lifting department, engineer Robin Evans and others bought out the lifting department of the company in January 2005. They purchased stock, equipment and the contracts of some of the employees. The company continues to distribute lifting gear from Morris Material Handling Ltd, Yale, and Spanset as before.
Evans says that this year the company is working to join LEEA, the Lifting Equipment Engineers’ Association.
