A CO Tyrone engineering firm has become the latest manufacturer to confirm plans to set up shop at the Invest NI-owned business park in Strabane.
Castlederg-based Omega Crushing and Screening has lodged plans for a new 60,000 sq ft factory on the site.
It’s one of three engineering firms preparing to develop new facilities at the business park just off the A5 Melmount Road.
Strabane manufacturer Fabplus entered the planning process in March 2022 seeking to develop a new facility on 6.5 acres of the Invest NI site.
The firm, which provides prefabricated pipework for use in fire sprinkler systems, has spent recent years expanding its existing factory on the nearby Orchard Road.
Letterkenny-based manufacturer Houston Precision Engineering last year announced the acquisition of three acres of Strabane Business Park for a new factory.
The company is now well advanced in the planning process for the 35,000 sq ft facility.
The plans by the three manufacturers represent a significant boost to Invest NI.
Opened in 2013 at a cost of around £6m, it took the economic development agency four years to secure its first tenant for Strabane Business Park.
Dragon Foods announced its 7,500 sq ft manufacturing facility in late 2017.
The sauce specialist was later joined on the site by renewable energy and modular building firm KES.
Both factories are now operational on the industrial park close to the O’Neills factory.
Headed by Robert Douglas, Anhony Carlin and Colin Daly, Omega Crushing and Screening is a relatively new name in Co Tyrone’s busy mobile machinery sector.
Currently based at a small enterprise park in Castlederg, the firm has developed its own range of wheel mounted and tracked electrically powered crushers and screens, which are being marketed worldwide to the quarry, recycling and demolition sectors.
Industry monitor Construction Information Services (CIS) Ireland estimates the factory build could be in the region of £7m. But the overall investment and job creation will likely take that figure higher.
