Hugh Armstrong, our company's founder, took over the family's wood joinery near Saggart, County Dublin, in 1976, quitting his job as a Production Moulding Manager to start our company.

Less than a year later, Hugh received a call from his previous employers asking him to mold a few small goods for them because they were having trouble keeping up with demand from customers. Hugh obtained a loan, bought two 25T moulding machines, and set them up in a tiny building behind the wood joinery in September 1977 after realizing that this was his area of passion. Inception of Embankment Plastics.

Hugh and his sons, who had joined the business, were looking for a larger location as the company continued to expand. In 1988, they bought a piece of land on