This year, we’ve been able to proudly celebrate Direct Air’s 30th anniversary!
Allan Dolby made the decision 30 years ago to leave his long-term employer and start a new business with Allan Senior, to provide a service to Midlands engineering by combining their mutual skillsets of compressed air and pipework.
Our news story from our previous big milestone discusses more about how Direct Air came to be and our 25 year timeline. So, we thought this occasion it would be a great opportunity to look back on what the company has achieved over the last 5 years.
Over the recent years at Direct Air...
We continue to proudly sponsor Coventry City Football Club, as we have for multiple years. In fact, just this year, some of the Direct Air team got to meet the team in person!
Over the past 5 years we've also continued to do our bit for charity. Direct Air staff have pulled together to complete challenging activities, such as skydiving and the wolf run, in order to raise as much funds as possible for Alzheimer’s Society.
Accreditations
The whole team has continued to work hard in achieving new accreditations as well as maintaining existing ones. We recently secures all 3 of our ISO certification renewals, yet again! - ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
And we don't just renew the accreditations we've got, as last year we achieved a new one for Direct Air. The Achilles UVDB verification demonstrates our commitment to Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality legislations.
Our people
Our biggest asset is our people; from our apprentices to our management, we are one team working towards offering the best to our customers. At Direct Air our team has continued to expand over recent years and there are now 46 members of the team working across the Service Support department, Sales & Marketing team, Projects and Engineering departments.
As well as company milestones we take pride in celebrating achievements of our individual employees as well, check out our achievements category to read about them.
New Direct Air unit
As we've grown and expanded, that means we've needed more space!
Our new unit is located just one door down from our Coventry headquarters and has provided the Direct Air team with extended office space and warehouse storage space alongside our existing Coventry unit and Cheltenham unit. The extra space has enabled us to confront delivery challenges of certain compressors by keeping an extensive range of stock, meaning our customers compressors can be readily available as soon as the order is placed for many Kw sizes.
Our customers
Of course, without our loyal customers, none of this would be possible!
Our dedicated team continue to work hard to help save our customers money and provide expert solutions, whilst offer the best customer experience. We're proud to have customers still with us now after 20 years of completing compressed air projects with them. For some of these customers the energy and cost savings discovered as a result of Direct Air's solutions as reached figures such as £58,000.
Company achievements
We're proud that our efforts to provide quality compressed air services to the UK continue to get noticed.
Especially by the brands of compressed air equipment that we distribute. Throughout recent years we've received recognition from CompAir when Direct Air's Managing Director, Allan Dolby, placed a record order with the manufacturer back in 2020 of the largest ever Ultima compressors order - consisting of 8 Ultima machines! Since then we've also been awarded CompAir Northern Europe Air Treatment Distributor of the Year 2021 and CompAir Distributor of the Year in 2022.
The celebrations!
As we achieved such a huge milestone, we thought it was only right to celebrate in style!
In November Direct Air staff, plus one’s, friends and close working stakeholders all attended a formal evening at the stunning Nailcote hall. The evening consisted of a three course meal, speeches, awards, entertainment in the form of a magician and dancing of course!
We celebrated the Direct Air teams commitment by presenting years of service awards to specific staff members. From 5 years at the company right up to 30 years!
Thank you to everyone for coming to celebrate with us, we had a fantastic time and hope you did too.
Lets hear from Allan
Allan Dolby delivered a short speech during the 30th anniversary, here’s what he had to say about the last 30th years…
“30 years seems to come around surprising quickly, I can’t quite believe it! I’d like to thank everyone who attended our 30th anniversary evening to celebrate the milestone, including key partners who have helped us get where we are today, it’s greatly appreciated.
We don’t manufacture anything as we’re a company that provides a service to our customer base and therefore it’s really all about the people and it’s the people that make the business. With that in mind I would like to thank the whole Direct Air team for everything you’ve done for the business over the years. Our Service Manager, Will Farrell, has been working along side me since day one so I would like to thank him for his help and support throughout the 30 years.
In the years ahead we will continue to stay true to our values of offering an engineered solution for all systems based upon first class technical advice, whilst continuing to provide the best levels of after sales service available.”