DFS ships thousands of petrol pumps around the world each year from its Dundee factory in Scotland. Employing 350 staff, it is one of Dundee’s biggest manufacturing firms.
The Dundee Courier, a local paper, was given an exclusive look inside the busy Baldovie factory, which can build up to 500 fuel dispensers a week, by operations director and site leader Denise McHugh (Shown in above photo). We would like to share this article with erpecnews Live readers
The Dover Fueling Solutions factory at West Pitkerro Industrial Estate employs 350 people – and 30% of the shopfloor workforce are women.
Denise, who has worked at the Dundee site since 2018, told The Courier: “Dundee has a proud history of manufacturing and we are committed to continuing that.
“For us, keeping jobs in the Dundee and in Scotland is so important. Like any other business, we have been impacted by factors out with our control, such as Covid, inflation, cost of living, raw material prices and geopolitical conflicts. However, we have worked hard to offset these challenges.”
Dover Fueling Solutions at local filling stations
Denise added: “One amazing part of working here is seeing the products we manufacture when we fill up our own cars.
DFS is now one of the world's leading providers of advanced energy dispensing equipment – building and supplying fuel dispensers and payment terminals. Exporting to 160 countries across the globe, the firm can produce 10,000 different fuel dispensing configurations.
Above photo. Employee Adam Knapczyk hard at work at the site last week.
Corina Moraru takes a break to chat with operations director Denise McHugh
Every customer can choose the size, shape, colour and media screen of the unit they wish to order. European fuel stations tend to opt for simple configurations, meanwhile, orders from the United Arab Emirates are often for bigger dispensers with large screens.
The middle east market is an area of growth for DFS – a subsidiary of US-based parent company Dover Corporation – and the firm recently shipped a bright pink unit to Bahrain, Denise revealed.
The huge production site at West Pitkerro Industrial Estate – previously Schlumberger and then Tokheim – celebrates its 30th anniversary this year but underwent a multimillion pound expansion when it was taken over by DFS in 2016.
Initially it created two distinctly different terminals but in 2023 it created a new range using the “best of both” the Tokheim and Wayne designs. Denise and her team have also been instrumental in streamlining the production line.
For the first time ever, DFS has been named a 2025 Manufacturing Leadership Award finalist by the US-based Manufacturing Leadership Council.
All photos were courtesy of Steve MacDougall/DC Thomson. For the full article visit Inside Dover Fueling Solutions' Dundee petrol pump factory
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