Sincon Engineering celebrating 20 years
A FAMILY run structural steel fabrication, erection and roofing and cladding business based near the Hook Peninsula are celebrating 20 years in business.
Sincon Engineering based in Fethard-on-Sea gathered in the Strand Tavern recently for a staff celebration.
The company expanded into the roofing and cladding side of construction and also specialise in Zinc Veio, Standing Seam and Alkor PVC flat roofing systems.
Founded by Michael Sinnott Snr, who ran the business for many years but due to ill health closed the doors back in 1999. His son Michael Jnr was living at home and had been working in the business. Tony Sinnott (son of Michael Snr) was living in Germany and Caroline Staats (daughter of Michael Snr) was living in New Zealand.
Due to their father’s ill health both Tony and Caroline decided to move home for a while to spend some time with him.
Tony and Michael reopened the business under the name Sincon Engineering Ltd in February 2000 and Caroline joined them soon after.
There were four siblings in the business, along with some extended family making Sincon Engineering Ltd one of the county’s great family businesses, employing 14 full time employees in total – working with numerous local subcontractors keeping outsourcing local wherever they can.
The company fabricate and erect structural steelwork for industrial units, commercial units, pharmaceutical units, retail units, car show rooms and shop fit outs and dwelling houses. More locally the company have completed the steel and cladding works to the new palliative care extension at University Hospital Waterford and St Patrick’s Hospital Waterford, a number of the new Costa coffee projects throughout the south and east coasts, and more recently Sincon Engineering Ltd finished the branch in Wexford town, Clonard Retail Park.
Other local projects include Glanbia in Belview Port, numerous projects in Danone Nutricia Wexford and Bausch & Lomb in Waterford and many of the other pharmaceutical companies in the south east, including ongoing works at Great Island Power Station.
Caroline said: ‘ This year we are celebrating 20 years in business. No mean feat really having come through the last recession when so many others closed their doors. Sadly Dad passed away in 2016 but we know he would have been delighted to celebrate 20 years with us this week. Mum (Pauline Sinnott) is still here to keep us all on our toes and very much still the matriarch of the family.’