Pauwels will create 60 new jobs in Cavan

Pauwels Compton Greaves in Cavan town is to create 60 new jobs at its plant on the Dublin Road and details will be announced by the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan, TD, on Friday morning. Pauwels Compton Greaves Ireland is a manufacturer of oil-filled single phase distribution transformers. These are used mainly in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where some suburban and rural electricity distribution is by single-phase overhead lines to sites close to consumers. PTI has the technology and specialised manufacturing plant for large-scale production of this type of transformer. This Belgian based company established Pauwels Compton Greaves Ireland in 1978 as the Pauwels Group"s first overseas operation, and it and now employs more than 400 at it Cavan plant. Over the past 30 years the Cavan firm has been one of the major employers in the county town and it has gone from strength to strength. It recently rolled out its 200,000th transformer and the vast majority of them are for export. The mayor of Cavan town Cllr. Paddy O"Reilly welcomed the news that extra jobs were going to be created. 'In these turbulent times any additional jobs had to be welcomed.' Pauwels Compton Greaves have strong links with Cavan stretching back three decades and it good to see it still expanding, especially in difficult times, he added. The company concentrates on the production of smaller single and three-phase distribution and SLIM transformers and micro-substations. Single phase distribution transformers are used mainly in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where some suburban and rural electricity distribution is by single-phase overhead lines to sites close to consumers. Pauwels Compton Greaves Ireland has the technology and a specialised manufacturing plant for large-scale production of this type of transformer. It also produces a large number of Compact Substations for the UK, French and Irish markets. The development of the "Poste Socle" unit has been important to the Irish plant in recent years.