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16 Fonthill Industrial Park 
Fonthill Road North 
Clondalkin 
Dublin 22 
D22 P2T4 
Ireland

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Fürstenrieder Strasse 5
80687 Munich
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London, UK
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London
United Kingdom
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Oxfordshire, UK
Harwell Innovation Centre
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
173 Curie Avenue
Didcot
Oxfordshire
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Block 6
Cleaboy Business Park
Waterford
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Leo Lynch is proud to announce that we have officially been Certified as a Great Place to Work after a thorough and independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work® Ireland. The accreditation process is based on direct feedback from employees, provided as part of an extensive and anonymous survey about the workplace experience.

At Leo Lynch we strive to create a high-performing culture built on safety and the uncompromising quality of our work. Our people-first approach ensures we attract, develop, and retain the best talent in the industry, so that our colleagues and clients are our strongest advocates. Guided by our values, we demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour and professionalism in everything we do. We are delighted to have received this recognition from Great Place to Work® Ireland.

About Great Place to Work®: Great Place to Work® (www.greatplacetowork.ie) is the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Through assessment tools, consultancy services, and certification programmes, Great Place to Work® recognises Best Workplaces™ across the world in a series of national lists including those published by The Irish Times and Fortune magazine (USA). Great Place to Work® provides the benchmarks, framework, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and recognise truly outstanding workplace cultures.

Leo Lynch Certified as a Great Place to Work!

Why do today’s businesses need high-performance engineering?

From pharmaceuticals to semiconductors, today’s fastest-growing industries are facing high demand and significant pressures related to cost, speed and quality. They increasingly rely on cutting-edge technologies and efficient production processes to stay competitive.

For this reason, they need partners who can continuously maintain, upgrade and scale their complex processes and systems without sacrificing the integrity of their products or the pace of production. They need highly specialist technical experts who both possess a deep understanding of their business needs and operate at a level of sophistication that enables fast, responsive and productive collaboration. 

This is the ambition of High-Performance Engineering at Leo Lynch. Not only do we aim to reach the highest standards of quality, safety and efficiency, we also focus heavily on building highly effective partnerships that yield agile and collaborative decision-making and problem-solving. 

High-Performance Engineering has the ability to flex and scale in line with clients’ ambitions, and it is committed to continuous innovation and improvement to support long-term resilience. 

Here are some of the ways High-Performance Engineering caters to the specific needs of today’s fast-growing sectors: 

Precision in engineering helps to ensure the safety and efficacy of all products, but it is especially relevant in life sciences, where pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotech products must meet strict regulatory requirements and industry standards for patient safety. Cutting-edge approaches like robotics, automation, and precision machinery play a vital role in achieving accuracy and repeatability, as do off-site manufacturing and modular construction. 

Advanced technologies are driving innovation in fields like artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and renewable energy. To stay competitive, companies in these sectors require process and building services engineering solutions that can accommodate rapid technological advancements and adapt to evolving industry trends. High-Performance Engineering services can help to deliver state-of-the-art systems that maximise performance, efficiency, and scalability.

In the food and beverage manufacturing industry, High-Performance Engineering services can enhance operational efficiency and increase productivity. Features like automation, optimised production lines, and intelligent process control systems help to streamline operations, reduce waste, minimise downtime, and maximise throughput. By leveraging engineering solutions, companies can achieve higher production rates while maintaining strict quality standards.

Today’s high-performance sectors are subject to strict regulatory frameworks and quality assurance protocols. Process and mechanical engineering services tailored for these industries ensure compliance. From cleanroom design in pharmaceutical facilities to hygienic process equipment in food production, High-Performance Engineering solutions help guarantee the integrity and safety of products.

High-performance industries like data centres have high standards of worker safety and increasingly, environmental responsibility. Process and mechanical engineering services, delivered effectively, strive to eliminate risks and incidents that cause harm to people and the planet. They deliver energy efficiency, waste management, and water conservation, and enable green manufacturing processes. By implementing sustainable engineering solutions, companies can minimise their environmental impact while maintaining operational excellence.

Why do today’s businesses need high performance engineering?

Staff numbers to hit 500 with target revenues of €100 million by end of 2025.

Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday 10th October 2023, – Leo Lynch, the 67-year-old process and mechanical engineering company headquartered in Ireland, today announced a rebrand, including a new corporate identity and core company values. The rebrand arrives at a key strategic moment for Leo Lynch as it announces a major UK and European expansion and recruitment drive.  The firm is projecting staff numbers to hit 500 and revenues of €100 million by end of 2025.

“This rebrand reflects our ambition to scale with our clients into new markets and to become a leading provider of process and mechanical engineering services across Europe,” said Philip Smith, Managing Director of Leo Lynch. “We have a strong track record of delivering quality, safety, and efficiency on highly specialised projects in high-growth sectors, and we are confident that this rebrand will help drive that message at home and overseas”, added Smith.

Staff numbers, currently at 350, are forecasted to grow by over 40% to 500 by end of 2025.  Following an investment from US investment firm Cathexis in 2022, Leo Lynch has positioned itself for growth with investment in people and operations.  “We have built up a strong platform for growth, bolstering our teams, systems, and capability to expand into the UK and Europe with existing and new clients”, added Smith.

The new Leo Lynch brand is centred around the principle of ‘High-Performance Engineering’. The new logo features a plus sign, which represents the strong connections and relationships that Leo Lynch has built with clients and colleagues since its establishment in 1967.  The new tagline, “High-Performance Engineering,” reflects the company’s commitment to delivering quality, reliability, and innovation at scale. The bold orange colour reflects the energy and dynamism that Leo Lynch people are bringing to the challenge.  The rebrand includes a new website, which can be found at www.leolynch.com.

“We are confident that this rebrand will help us to better communicate our value proposition to clients and partners,” Smith said. “We are excited to start this new chapter in the long history of Leo Lynch”, added Smith.

Leo Lynch provides high quality specialist mechanical and process engineering design and installation services.  Clients include Pfizer, IPUT, and Tyndall National Institute. 

Leo Lynch is a process and mechanical engineering company based in Ireland. The company has been in business for 67 years and has a strong track record of delivering quality, safety, and efficiency on complex projects. Leo Lynch clients include some of the world’s leading companies in the life sciences, datacentre, advanced technologies, food and beverage, and commercial sectors.  For more information, visit www.leolynch.com.

Contact: johnpaul.okeeffe@boostyoursales.ie, 089 616 7081

Philip Smith, Managing Director, Leo Lynch.  Caption: We have built up a strong platform for growth, bolstering our teams, systems, and capability to expand into the UK and Europe with existing and new clients.

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Leo Lynch announces rebrand as part of strategic UK and European expansion and recruitment drive

All process and building services engineers talk about quality–how they create it, measure it, and assure it. In fact, it’s so pervasive now in the industry (and rightfully so), it has become a hygiene factor in the delivery of construction solutions. This is particularly true in highly technical sectors where right-first-time delivery and compliance are paramount. 

With so much noise around quality, how can a high-performance business choose a partner they’re confident will deliver? One strategy for doing so is to look closer at the provider. What are the mechanisms that sit behind their quality assurance? 

Over years of work in highly regulated sectors with blue-chip clients, we at Leo Lynch have developed an approach to quality that maximises our success. Not only do we have industry-leading processes and systems in place, but we also take a more holistic approach that aligns our people, values, beliefs and behaviours behind quality every day. 

We call it “quality from within” and we deliver it through a High-Performance Culture. Here’s how we build it:

It sounds simple, but clear goals are essential to delivering quality outcomes and experiences for our clients and employees. We strive to communicate clearly and consistently where we are–as a team, a project and a company–where we’re going, and how we intend to get there, to drive team purpose and morale. 

Most importantly, we are clear about the roles, responsibilities and the benefits to individuals of participation. Finally, every day we uphold our core value of “Take Part,” encouraging and rewarding active buy-in and participation by every one of our people. 

Recently, we launched our innovation strategy, which aims to set goals and measure progress across six key areas of focus, including quality. 

In order to find new ways to deliver quality better, faster and with greater value for money for our clients, we are focused on building a culture that nurtures and elevates good ideas. Our largely flat structure and open lines of communication create an environment in which people are future-focused, willing to suggest improvements, and aren’t afraid to fail.

We operate from the principle that when our people see Leo Lynch’s commitment to a quality work experience, they are more likely to extend that quality to our clients. 

To that end, we channel our energies into recruiting and retaining people who take real pride in what they do, by providing quality-focused apprenticeships, graduate schemes, and leadership programmes. We offer bespoke training and development programs to our people to help them pursue their passions and find their meaning. We ensure our offices and sites are well taken care of, and our people know their wellbeing is in mind. 

Quality from within starts with our leadership. By modelling and upholding an attention to detail, a determination to get things right, and a commitment to delivering on promises, our leaders communicate to our people the value we place on quality in everything. We provide a leadership program to support leaders in developing skills in line with our desired culture. 

While quality has a clear definition on our projects, it is more subjective when applied in our culture and relationships. For this reason, we uphold our core values as a framework for delivering quality. They hold us all accountable to a set of behaviours that we believe lead to a High-Performance Culture, and consequently high-performance partnerships and outcomes for our clients. Our performance reviews and awards programs align with those core values. 

Fundamentally, our people must feel comfortable and safe–both physically and psychologically–at work. They must believe that showing up means bringing their true selves, and that difference is both recognised and celebrated. Our approaches to health, safety and wellness, and diversity and inclusion are of the utmost importance to us, and we strive to add rigour and continuously improve them over time.

How a High-Performance Culture helps to deliver on the promise of quality

How we create High-Performance Partnerships at Leo Lynch

Today’s demands, regulations and other pressures on fast-growing industries are simply too great for business as usual. Sectors like life science, data centres, and advanced technologies require speed, efficiency and agility on an unprecedented scale in order to stay competitive and maintain quality of service and product. 

As critical partners to these companies, process and mechanical engineers must go beyond delivering to exceptionally high standards of quality and safety. They must also engage in high-performance partnerships on site in order to respond, adapt and innovate to the extent necessary to keep pace. 

Leo Lynch is built on High-Performance Partnerships with our blue-chip clients. We have maintained those relationships over decades, and lead the industry in repeat business. Again and again, we have seen firsthand how our long-standing partnerships have not only improved the work experiences of our people and our clients’ people, they have also had a substantial positive impact on project outcomes. 

What does a High-Performance Partnership look like? Here’s how we define it at Leo Lynch: 

For decades, we have maintained a relatively flat hierarchy as a point of pride. We’ve done this not because it’s always been easiest, but rather, because it has ensured our people feel confident and comfortable to share their thoughts, ideas and concerns in a transparent and honest way. 

Today, we continue to favour and prioritise open communication. One of our core values, reinforced through our leadership and culture, is Take Ownership, which encourages our people to speak up, be openly accountable, and not shy away from tough conversations.

Over years of work across a wide variety of environments, we’ve learned the value of early alignment with our clients and with other contractors. We strive to keep in touch with our clients, both formally and informally, and offer numerous opportunities for ongoing conversations. 

Quite simply, by knowing more, we can be better prepared to support. By engaging early, we can solve and mitigate issues and create efficiencies. 

Our business is focused on several core sectors and services for a reason: We are more interested in being experts than generalists. We find that by specialising, we can deepen and focus the professional and technical development of our people. Also, we can cultivate a passion for particular sectors that means our clients trust us to care as much as they do. 

Our core value of “Take Part” is rooted in the idea that we believe in the power of a team to create solutions. We reward and celebrate the people in our company who are active contributors to collective success with each other and our clients. Additionally, we strive to create a High-Performance Culture, fuelled by our innovation strategy, to encourage great ideas and generous knowledge share. 

The cornerstone of High-Performance Partnerships is flexibility. We provide a service bespoke to our clients, and we build a strong foundation of trust and understanding so that we can respond quickly and efficiently to change. We understand the many pressures on our clients today, so we equip ourselves with what we need to be as responsive as possible. 

Our business is built on strong partnerships, and strong partnerships are built on trust. For this reason, we put all of our energy into demonstrating every day that we will do what we say we’ll do, and we’ll do it with integrity and pride. Our clients hand over their challenges and effectively say to us: “Just get on with it.” To us, this belief and confidence in us is the highest form of validation. 

Speed is at the top of all our clients’ agendas. To this end, we aim to be part of the solution, not the problem. We value and respect the valuable resource of personal and professional time, and seek to use it as effectively as possible. Our clients’ communications to us are treated as a matter of urgency, and we strive to be there in whatever capacity we’re needed, whether it’s to answer questions or provide advice. 

While we don’t expect to form enduring relationships with all of our clients, it is our genuine intention to do so. Our core behaviour of “Take Care” is about not just investing in the now, but rather about investing in the long-term success of the people, facilities and businesses we serve. We have worked with clients over decades, and the further we get into those relationships, the more we develop the understanding and commitment that leads to better outcomes.

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