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AN ENGINEERING firm is staying one step ahead of the tough market conditions with effective forward planning and improved efficiency.

Kaygee Engineering, based in west Hull, carries out a huge range of engineering and fabrication work from machine manufacture and design to mezzanine flooring and structural steelwork.

The firm is run by brothers Mark and Paul Jackson, who are scaling back the business in order to ensure its survival.

They bought Kaygee Engineering four years ago from their father Dennis, who co-founded the company in 1982 and are determined to pass it on to the next generation.

They recently moved the firm to Maritime House at the Omega Business Park in Neptune Street as part of a downsizing from 12,000sqft to 7000sqft, in line with the shrinking market for engineering services.

Co-director Mark said: "People keep rabbiting on about how we've turned a corner, but everybody in my game who I am talking to is still struggling.

"We have fine-tuned all our expenses to keep the company stable and make sure it stays successful.

"We're links of london charms viewing our scale-down as a consolidation.

"We want to be proactive rather than reactive to the market."

The firm has done work for major local players, including Smith And Nephew, Reckitt Benckiser and Berricap.

But the last couple of years have been tough and a number of their biggest customers, such as Greencore, have scaled down operations, while others such as Cavanagh and Gray Plc, closed down last year.

The company has cut its workforce from 37 to 21 in the past seven years, but annual turnover still stands at more than Pounds 1 million and Mark is confident that Kaygee have made the changes necessary to keep the company healthy and competitive. He said: "We can see that the market is declining so we say let's get our company in order in controlled finished with a view to still being here in 20 years.

"Undoubtedly, the market place has been in decline, in my opinion, for some time.

"It's been particularly hard in the past three years."

Kaygee Engineering has met the challenge by maintaining a tight budget and continuing to offer great customer service.

Mark said: "We're very flexible. "If a man wants a washer, I will make him a washer. If he wants a machine fixing, we will Replica Rado make it happen.

"We like to impress our customers and get a rapport going with them.

"We have a loyal band, because we're very, very flexible.

"I always say if you want pink candyfloss with chocolate buttons on it, then we'll get you pink candyfloss with chocolate buttons."

The two brothers learned their business acumen from their father and hope to pass on these lessons to Paul's 12-year-old son, Sam.

Mark said: "We had some very, very good schooling from my father and his business partner Kevin Scott.

"He was a very, very canny Yorkshireman and Mr Scott was a very good accountant.

"I worked alongside him for many years and his teaching was second to none.

"You can't buy that kind of experience."

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By Sandra J. Pennecke

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Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon, Jacques Cartier and Christopher Newport paid a visit to Centerville Elementary School recently. The famed explorers were brought to life for the third- graders - by third-graders - with a little help.

Armed with maps, props, costumes and an armful of historical facts, Pat Young, director of Experiential Learning, which offers hands-on, SOL-based programs in the classroom, came to the school on Jan. 14. She walked the students in Meredith Stuart's class through each of the four explorers' journeys to the New World.

Young presents hour-long, age-appropriate programs from Gloucester to the Southside, including digging into Ancient China's past, surviving on the Great Plains and the Pueblo people for second- graders and "Once Upon a Time" and a year-end SOL review for third graders.

"They get to explore with activities that complement what they do in the classroom," said Young, who started the hands-on educational, multidisciplinary and multisensory programs five years ago.

Her experience dates back much further. She's the former director of international admissions for Old Dominion University and was programming and outreach coordinator at both the Chrysler Museum of Art and Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Many of Young's authentic artifacts are souvenirs from her travels and time spent living in Europe and Asia and include a quilted globe filled with riches of Asia.

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"I like interacting with the children and offering them the opportunity to do something new and different with these topics," she said.

Students Kole Fosher, Stephanie Bragg, Hope Lillemo and Meisha Jones dressed in period costumes as the explorers. Aaron Smith, Ashley Verschueren, Jeffery Aldridge and Connor Holt portrayed first mates.

The rest of the class became map makers, following specific details of each expedition. A blue blanket spread on the floor symbolized the ocean and dry erase boards, in the shape of each discovered land, were laid out to create the North American coastline as it was discovered.

For Connor, who was Ponce de Leon's first mate, stepping into the role helped him understand exactly where the continents were. "My favorite part was putting the flag in the map and claiming the land for Spain," he said. "This was a fun way to learn about history."

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