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Investment in recruitment and training helps increase efficiency and achieve record monthly production levels

Managing director Barry Davidson says Fairgrieve Compression Moulding is starting to reap the full rewards of six-months of investment into recruitment and training, with the business now producing record monthly outputs and figures.

On the back of continuing contract wins, Mr Davidson says the firm identified the need last year to increase productivity and capacity to ensure it could cope with on-going demand from its key customers through 2026 .

To do so, the business made doubling the size of the workforce one of its key objectives, to ensure it could not only service the contracts already secured but also continue to grow and seek new opportunities.

That saw a six-month period of continual recruitment and training committed to over the first half of the year, doubling the size of the overall team, and importantly, resulting in impressive improvements on the factory floor.

“We’re busier than we’ve ever been and we’re managing the demand well because we were prepared to commit time and money to developing the business in 2025, and I’m really proud of that,” said Mr Davidson.

Recruitment and training phased over stages

Mr Davidson said recruitment was purposefully planned and completed in stages, ensuring new recruits were sufficiently trained and shadowed by experienced staff, who have benefited from these detailed training programmes.

“We’ve introduced new people to the business gradually, rather than having one single big recruitment drive, as we wanted to ensure we not only had more hands-on deck, but that we committed the right amount of time to training,” said Mr Davidson.

“This ensured people were fully comfortable in their new roles and able to work to our high-quality standards before we began to add more new faces, as our experienced team then have to commit the time to supporting them.

“If you do this too quickly you run the risk of productivity falling and missing customer deadlines, so by taking our time in ensuring we recruited people of good calibre over a longer period of time, we are now reaping the rewards and well placed to deal with the longer terms needs of the business.

“We are in a good place right now and things are really positive as we plan ahead. Our order book for 2026 is strong and looking healthy which is a great way to start the new year”.

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