The Carson Industries production facility in Roscommon became the latest addition to the growing Northstone family when CRH plc acquired its parent company earlier this year.
Carson Industries was founded in La Verne, California in 1969 to manufacture and supply plastic sub footway grade level splice boxes to the electric utility industry. Over the next four decades or so, the Company expanded as did the product portfolio. It now has six manufacturing facilities and is the world’s largest manufacturer of structural foam high density polyethylene (HDPE) chambers. In excess of 50 million Carson chambers have now been installed across the world. Other products in the Carson portfolio now include multiple ducting systems and trackside channels.
The Carson production facility at Racecourse Road, Roscommon was established in a new purpose built factory in 1993 to serve the European and Middle Eastern markets with pre formed HDPE products. The unique structural foam moulding process used at the Roscommon plant produces strong, yet lightweight products, which offer significant installation savings. The products are used extensively in the rail, water and utilities industries as well as on golf courses and various drainage projects.
The Roscommon plant produces over 200 different sizes of chambers which include small and medium box sizes as well as the Polyvault product range. A new ring chamber product, specifically targeting utilities and street lighting applications, will be launched in January 2008. The unique Carson Carriageway Fortress Chamber complies with the various standards to enable it to be used on carriageway applications.
Carson Industries in Roscommon is led by Managing Director, Mike Kelly, who is ably assisted by Cian Cantwell in sales and marketing, Coleman Cooney in finance and Charlie Dunne in production
