JAMES'S STREET

 

 

From 1974 to 2007, James's Street Steel operated from the company premises at 34 James's Street, Dublin 8. In the beginning the process of cutting and bending reinforcement was done outdoors in an open yard on basic machinery. In the early 1980's a factory was constructed and an Arnold shearline was added for cutting the reinforcement. Later in the 1980's a MEP automatic link bender was purchased and it was followed shortly after by an EVG automatic link bender.

As the company moved into the 1990's it continued to update machinery as new ideas and new machinery developed for the reinforcement industry. A second EVG was added in 1993 and in 1994 the old Arnold shearline was updated to an RMS Shearline, the first of its kind in the country. Also during 1994 the method used for cutting reinforcing bars changed. Up until then the cutting sequences were decided in the factory by the shearline operator. However with the advancement of computer software new systems for cutting reinforcement were beginning to appear worldwide. James's Street Steel embraced the new computer age and purchased an American Optimisation programme and became the first company in Ireland to cut reinforcement on an optimised shearline. The cutting sequences were produced in the company office and transferred to machine by data box and the results were instant. Productivity soared and the company never looked back.

In the year 2003 the company expanded again and added a second RMS shearline, a Stema-Pedax automatic link bender and a Stema Pedax double bender to nearly double the capacity of the James's Street factory. However we had built into every available corner and the lack of space was becoming a problem.

In 2005 a decision was taken to seek a site to build a new factory and after a few months  of searching a suitable site was found in Greenogue Business Park, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin and the company moved into it's new home in December 2007.