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SL Controls has been shortlisted for the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) award in the 2018 Limerick Chamber Regional Business Awards. The announcement was made this morning. The category we are shortlisted in is the Best CSR Contribution to the Region 2018. It is sponsored by Deloitte. Two other companies were also shortlisted for the BST …

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SL Controls has successfully completed the See Change programme. Our certification was presented to us by See Change CEO John Saunders earlier in the month.   We took the See Change pledge in February and have been working throughout the year to complete the six stages of the programme. See Change is an organisation that …

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At the end of this week, SL Controls engineer Paul Dillon will swap his computer screens for a gruelling obstacle course in the Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) World Championships. OCR is a sport that is growing in popularity at a huge rate. He will compete with athletes from more than 60 countries after qualifying at …

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If you’re a student or graduate at LIT or IT Sligo, we will be at a Careers Fair on your campus this week. Come see us – we’d love to have a chat. University careers fairs are a great place to meet potential employers and find opportunities in your chosen industry. At the SL Controls …

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As today is World Mental Health Day, SL Controls has launched a series of events to support the official campaign. The official campaign from the World Federation for Mental Health is Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World. The objective is to bring attention to the issues our youth and young adults face …

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SL Controls has been named on the shortlist of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards. It is a leading awards programme in Ireland that celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship. This is the 19th year of the awards. The shortlist is determined by revenue growth over the last four years. Deloitte partner David Shanahan said the awards …

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SL Controls picked up two awards at the Sligo Business Awards on Friday night. We won the Best Corporate Social Responsibility Award, which was the category we were shortlisted in. We also won the big award of the night, the Best Overall Business Award. Keith Moran, SL Controls Managing Director, said: “We are delighted to …

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The annual Company Marathon Challenge took place in Limerick on Friday, with the team from SL Controls setting a new fastest time. We came sixth in the event overall, with a time of 2 hours 21 minutes, two minutes faster than last year. The Company Marathon Challenge is organised by Limerick Sports Partnership and takes …

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Are you an engineering student or a recent engineering graduate looking for an employment opportunity? We’d love to meet you, and this week is the perfect opportunity! We’ll have a stand at both the Graduate Careers Fair at GMIT (which is today, 1 October!) and the Graduate Jobs Fair at NUI Galway (which is tomorrow, …

Calling Engineering Students and Graduates: Come See us at GMIT and NUI Galway Read More »

At SL Controls, we are always interested in speaking to up and coming engineering talent. This talent is the lifeblood of our industry and is crucial to not only our success, but the success of the country more generally. For this reason, we visit as many careers’ fairs across Ireland as possible, particularly in those …

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Watch the video to find out more about our shortlisting in the Innovator Excellence Award category of the 2018 Sligo Chamber of Commerce Excellence Awards.

SL Controls has been shortlisted for another award – the Best Corporate Social Responsibility Award at this year’s Sligo Business Awards. The award is sponsored by AbbVie. The judges shortlisted SL Controls for our Live Well at SL and Think Well at SL Programmes. The other companies shortlisted in the corporate responsibility category include Format.ie …

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The team at SL Controls took part in Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice yesterday. We hosted coffee mornings in each of our regional offices, with staff members donating to the annual Hospice campaign. All the money raised at each office will be donated to the local hospice group. Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice …

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SL Controls has donated €500 to the Galway Simon Community. We made the donation as part of our ongoing Share the Love campaign. Share the Love involves getting employees in each of our regional offices to nominate local causes in their area they think SL Controls should support. We focus on one regional office per …

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SL Controls has been shortlisted in the Innovator Excellence Award category at the Sligo Chamber of Commerce Excellence Awards. The shortlisting is based on the new suite of products we launched earlier in the year, TOTALline. TOTALline replaces manual manufacturing processes with automated, integrated, and highly efficient solutions. The products in the TOTALline range include …

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SL Controls has been nominated for an award in the 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. We are up for the Excellence in Workplace award for the SL Controls Live Well at SL and Think Well at SL programmes. The awards are run by Chambers Ireland, the umbrella organisation for Ireland’s network of Chambers of Commerce …

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Each week the Sunday Business Post interviews one of Ireland’s corporate leaders. Last week they interviewed Keith Moran, Managing Director at SL Controls. Read the interview now. Click to view larger image:

SL Controls is donating €500 to the Galway Simon Community after it won the most votes in our latest Share the Love campaign. Share the Love is an SL Controls’ initiative that supports local good causes and charities. This campaign focused on the Galway area where SL Controls has a well-established and busy office. The …

The Galway Share the Love Winning Project is Galway Simon Community Read More »

SL Controls have linked up with the Irish Heart Foundation to run an employee Step Challenge. The Challenge will run for four weeks from 11 July to 8 August as part of the Live Well at SL programme. SL Controls employees from across the company are participating by increasing their daily steps. During the Challenge, …

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E-Cubers is an initiative that is proactively addressing engineering skills shortages in Ireland. While it promotes engineering in general, the main focus of E-Cubers is an emerging engineering role that is increasingly in demand – Equipment Systems Engineer. Equipment Systems Engineers have both traditional engineering skills as well as skills in new technologies and processes. …

SL Controls Welcomes E-Cubers, an Initiative Promoting the Development of Engineering Skills in Ireland Read More »

On Friday, 29 June, we swapped engineering and writing code for space hopper racing and football darts as we travelled to Athlone for our annual summer outing. This year we enlisted the help of Get West for our activity: the SL Controls Office Olympics at Buccaneers Rugby Club in Athlone. The activities included a series …

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SL Controls continuing to expand and grow. Tech companies in Sligo collectively announcing hundreds of new jobs in the first five months of this year alone. Specialist companies involved in the MedTech industry based in the North West of Ireland coming together to launch the Atlantic MedTech Cluster last month. These are just some examples …

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The World Cup gets underway this week, so we decided to celebrate SL Controls Diversity Week. While SL Controls doesn’t have as many nationalities as teams in the World Cup, we do have people from 12 different countries working for us. SL Controls Diversity Week is the ideal opportunity to celebrate and learn about the …

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Keith Moran co-founded SL Controls and is its Managing Director. Read a profile article from the Sunday Independent which details the launch of the company and its journey to date. View PDF: Sunday Independent 3 June 2018

Last week SL Controls was part of the launch of the new Atlantic MedTech Cluster. The Cluster includes SL Controls and seven other companies based in the North West that provide specialist services to the MedTech industry. Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, launched the Cluster. Here is some of the press …

Launch Photos and Press Coverage of the New Atlantic MedTech Cluster Read More »

The new Atlantic MedTech Cluster officially launched in Sligo this week. The Atlantic MedTech Cluster includes eight Irish MedTech specialist companies that are all based in the North West, including SL Controls. The other companies involved are Arrotek, ATS, iNBLEX Plastics, Pharma Stainless, Tool & Gauge, Verus Precision, and Ward Automation. Together these companies have …

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The See Change Green Ribbon campaign is continuing this month and, as part of our support for it, we are running a photography competition. So, what has photography got to do with encouraging people to discuss mental health issues in the workplace? It is all about the theme of the competition, which is Mind Your …

Taking Photos to Promote Mental Health Discussions in the Workplace Read More »

SL Controls has made the shortlist for the IoT Innovation Award at this year’s Tech Excellence Awards for our TOTALline suite of products. This includes TOTALdata and TOTALbatch. Other nominees in the Internet of Things innovation category are: ActionPoint AmbiSense Blueface Vodafone This is the 18th year of the Tech Excellence Awards, an event widely …

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Every day in Ireland, people who are suicidal, who self-harm, or have been bereaved by suicide, contact counsellors at Pieta House for support. This support is provided completely free of charge and is invaluable to those who make contact with the service as well as society generally. It is for these reasons that SL Controls …

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Share the Love is a quarterly campaign we run at SL Controls to support good causes and charities. It gives employees as well as their friends and family a say on which local charities and good causes SL Controls supports. It also helps focus our efforts on local projects. Each quarter we run the campaign …

Share the Love Galway – Vote for Your Favourite Project Read More »