History of GRS
The Company started in 1988 at 38 Northgate, Louth, Lincolnshire, (see the picture to the right) under the roof with GRS Electrical Engineers.
In 1991 the small company moved to Warwick Road on the new part of the Fairfield Industrial estate in a new purpose-built building. Four of the people in the photo to the right are still with us – can you guess who?
This served the Company well through the growth and expansion years of the 1990′s and into the 21st Century.
In May 2003 the Company looked at a new building as the work being carried out no longer fitted into Warwick Road facilities.
The Company slogan is “Pride in Performance”.
We are industrial engravers and general signmakers. Offering advice and service to our wide customer base, rapidly expanding due to the recent use of ecommerce, as well as the traditional methods of trade.
BS5750
In 1993 the Company achieved BS5750 status (similar to the ISO 9000 1987 Version), a standard which we have built on and gone on to improve upon.
New Building
In September 2004, the new building opened up with office and production areas of 7,000 square metres. This gave the Company opportunities to expand producing quality products managed by its quality management system.
The new building starts, appropriately, with the bulldozer doing its work and clearing off the land. As you can see in the background, the old GRS building is not too far away.
Incidentally, the sign you see on the old building is a profile sign, also known as a contour cut sign or cut out letters.
Now things are starting to come together. The framework for the new GRS building is in place, all the columns, braces and supports are all in and in this picture you can see the first layers of bricks starting to show.
Another close up picture taken on-site revealing the protective fencing around the outside, and also showing the protective fence along the edges of the roof as they finish it. The brick wall is really starting to show here.
A picture of the building before the tarmac gets laid, and this one even further out taken on a beautifully sunny day. Plenty of builders still at work of course.
The GRS foundation stone, laid in Summer 2004.
Here is one of our own modular signs on the front fence, welcoming everyone to GRS Sign Company Limited, the designer and manufacturer of quality signs.
Here we are today, 2010, with a picture taken from above in the bright sunshine. The building has been built for several years now, but still looks as good as new.