Niall Kavanagh

Natural Stone quarrying and processing company. Established in 1950 , Mc Keon is one of Laois's oldest indigenous manufacturing businesses. Exporting represents 70% of the revenue , mainly to customers in Belgium , Holland and Germany. With it's own quarry in Threecastles , Co Kilkenny , Mc Keon Stone supplies the raw material for it's two processing plants to make products as varied as major memorial sculptures to street kerbing and paving . Mc Keon Stone has built a reputation as the… Show more

Natural Stone quarrying and processing company. Established in 1950 , Mc Keon is one of Laois's oldest indigenous manufacturing businesses. Exporting represents 70% of the revenue , mainly to customers in Belgium , Holland and Germany. With it's own quarry in Threecastles , Co Kilkenny , Mc Keon Stone supplies the raw material for it's two processing plants to make products as varied as major memorial sculptures to street kerbing and paving . Mc Keon Stone has built a reputation as the best Blue Limestone in Europe and with a very strong manufacturing capability to take on technically complicated work using it's experience and state of the art CNC machinery.
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Investment company for Flexitallic llc of Houston for the setting up of Joint Ventures and licensee manufacturing operations in the Middle East , India and South East Asia.

Manufacturing business for specialised gaskets for Oil , Gas and petrochemical industry in the UK , European and Asian markets .

Started as a project leader and then as MIS manager , then General Manager for the Houston manufacturing operation including the sales force for North America . Responsible for the development of a manufacturing Joint Venture in Guadalajara , Mexico .

Worked at the corporate head office as part of the MIS consultancy team. Despatched to Houston to subsidary company Flexitallic to assist in changes.

Stationary and portable Air Compressors were built on an assembly line at this factory. As a member of their graduate management training program , I got my first managerial experience in running the Stock Control division that managed the incoming stock and fed the production lines. There were 40 storeman and a handful of office personell.
Following this I became involved in installing an MRPII manufacturing system in the factory.