A total of 33 teams took part in the 2010 Dublin ladies football Feile competition, played over four venues around the county in mid-April and sponsored once more by long-serving patron Everbuild. These games are growing in popularity on an annual basis and a record 700 girls participated this year, much to the obvious delight of everybody concerned, including the team at Everbuild.

Everbuild was founded in March 1994 and has grown to become The UK & Irelands Largest Independently owned manufacturer of Sealants, Adhesives, Building Chemicals and Decorative Sundries with an annual turnover of €56 Million Euros. Everbuild has operations in Dublin and in Leeds. It employs 220 people.

The Everbuild Directorate have over 167 years of combined experience of business in the distributor /merchant market place and are proud of our Independent status. We are confident that we have the facilities and combined expertise to exceed any buyer expectations - we hope that the fact that we have grown the company from Zero sales in 1994 to €56M in 2009 (15 years) bears testimony to the way that we look after our customer base.

Everbuild now has the largest range of products in its field with over 82% of the products in our range manufactured "in house" at our state of the art manufacturing premises.

Everbuild operate from a 300,000 square foot unit on a 15 acre site. The Everbuild site is equipped with the latest blending, mixing and filling machinery that enables us to lead the market in innovation and "New Product" introduction.

We currently have twenty-one cartridge-filling lines for silicones and acrylics, all set up in a row, eighteen are automatic filling stations, and some of the machines are dedicated to specific colours.  This ensures that we can produce specific products without any delays in changeovers or additional costs.

One of Everbuild most popular products is MS polymer, which is hybrid of silicone and polyurethane; it gives users the benefits of silicone in terms of strength and flexibility, but it is solvent free non-hazardous and offers improved adhesion.

The Everbuild warehouse and distribution facility contains over a mile of 5 tier racking, maintaining large stocks to ensure high order fulfilment levels and fast order turnaround. A Sophisticated barcode driven stock rotation and order collation ensure speed is combined with accuracy.

If we have all the lines running we can produce 250,000 cartridges per day which is a huge amount. To produce so many cartridges it is essential that our production processes are as efficient as possible.  That is why we make sure that all packing and raw materials for all orders are organised the night before,  this way it guarantees that orders can start being made as soon as the next shift starts.

Our entire production processes are computerised from start to finish, meaning Everbuild can pin point at what stage an order is at and when it is complete allowing us to accurately predict stock levels on an ongoing basis. Other practices including storing our stock in the warehouse in descending product weigh order, meaning there is no need to repack the pallet, when picking the order, to avoid crushing.

The warehouse is split into two teams, the movers and the pickers, which gives each group a specific responsibility.  The picking is carried out from floor level, with reserve pallet stocks held above each position, pallets are all bar coded with production batch details, allowing pickers to scan every product to ensure that each order is correct.  Once an order is finished, it is scanned and the information is sent to the carrier via an email, allowing each order to be planned when and how it is going to be delivered.  To look after such a large site and with a wide variety of machinery it is necessary for us to have a significant maintenance department, which is stringently managed to ensure maximum efficiency levels.  In total we have eleven engineers working on site, eight engineers concentrate on everyday maintenance and the remaining three engineers focus on new machinery and new ideas.

Research and new product development is very important to us at Everbuild, We are always looking what new products & innovations will benefit our customers and us regularly product new exciting products. We have our own research and development department as well as two satellite QC departments that carry out tests quickly and effectively within the vicinity of specific machines.  This enables Everbuild to make sure that the products produced are of the highest quality. (Everbuild is an IS09001 accredited company)  Key Everbuild products such as Wonder Wipes, Pinkgrip, Stixall and Forever White undergo constant tests to improve the formulations to increase the performance of the products. Pinkgrip and stixall in particular are continuously enhanced to keep it outperforming competitor's products.

As well as introducing our own new products, we also recently made several key company acquisitions, which has seen our product portfolio expand dramatically.  One example if our recent acquisitions is of the well known FEB and AQUASEAL brands names from BASF construction chemicals.  The purchase included all intellectual property, goodwill and certain key product formulations which has opened up our product range to new markets.

As a more specialist construction brand, the FEB range is perfectly complimentary to the wide and varied Everbuild sealant, adhesive and chemicals range.  "It is a strange feeling to have bought brand names that's been one of our biggest competitors for many years, but we know first hand how strong the FEB brand name is with major contractors, specifies, local authorities and general builders."

In 2008, Everbuild also acquired Purimachos Ltd, a manufacturer of heat resistant fire cement and related products.

Recently we exhibited at the International Hardware Fair in Cologne to great success. The fantastic purpose built, yellow and black stand stood out from the surrounding stands, and highlighted some of the key products within the companies massive product range.

Everbuild has experienced a 40 percent increase in export sales over the past 12 months, to a value of €5 million per annum, a tribute to the massive popularity of Everbuild's products throughout the world. Many customers and prospects flocked to the stand, which was rarely seen empty, to see the newly launched products as well as the rest of the company's large range.

Overall the show was a great triumph for Everbuild, with a record number of enquiries taken over the four days.

Looking to the future in the current economic climate, Everbuild's ability to manufacture 82% of our products in our factory has allowed Everbuild to prosper in the current climate. Tweet

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