David Cormack, Delphini, announced as LEEA Vice Chair LEEA 2024
By kicking off celebrations to the start of the New Year, we chat to David Cormack, MD, Delphini, who has been announced as the new Vice Chair of LEEA, alongside Oliver Austin, Chair, replacing Kat Moss this January. Here he tells us what changes members can expect to see this year…
David Cormack, MD, Delphini, is no stranger to LEEA, having worked on the Technical Committee for about five years and is now moving up the ranks, to take on the role of Vice Chair of the association, alongside Oliver Austin, as Chair, starting in January 2024.
“I am very proud to have been voted by my other directors and the members to become the Vice Chairman. I'm not quite sure you can ever replace Kat Moss, but I'm sure Oliver will do a great job,” he said.
“I've known Oliver for a long time. We worked together for many years as a supplier and as a customer, I’m also looking forward to lots of changes in LEEA in 2024. We're trying to push ahead with exciting new things such as the ChatBot, that helps with technical advice, which we launched at LiftEx 2023 and we're working with Ross Maloney, CEO, to look at the new Members Audit, to bring it into the 21st century."
“All members when they join LEEA, have to go through a process that is audited every year or two years, depending on the company and how long they've been members. It's a technical audit and it's one where we make sure that members are flying the Gold Standard."
“It's a way that customers and buyers ensure that when people see the LEEA badge that they know it actually means something. It means that members have been audited to a high technical standard.”
Cormack said he will be Vice Chair for two years, beginning January 1, 2024, and after that hopefully Chair.
“I passed my first LEEA exam in about 1989 and the association has been part of my working life since I started in the lifting gear industry and so I'm very excited to be able to be part of the LEEA Board and also to help run it for members."
“I started Delfini in the year 2000. We started with very humble beginnings with two or three people working for us in the port of Tilbury, specialising in port and shipping lifting equipment, we've now expanded over those 20 odd years. We've got some 34 people working for us now with a large manufacturing facility where we manufacture structural steels as well as lifting equipment and safety equipment, lifting beams and spreaders."
“So, a massive change from our beginnings and one that we're looking to grow on. If I do become chairman, the year that I'll become chair will be our 25th year in business. So, a fantastic double celebration for our silver anniversary."
“Right now, we’re pushing forward with trying to make all of our processes as digital as possible, which is a big challenge, but something we're looking forward to."
“We manufacture to a high standard, so we have EN 1090, which is a fabrication process certification, and by the middle of next year we'll also have ISO 45001, which is the health and safety accreditation, which we find incredibly valuable particularly as we've got lots of engineers going to sites, those sites can be dangerous. So to make sure that we've got top tier health and safety is massively important to us.”
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Click HERE to watch the video with David Cormack on LEEA YouTube.
