2025
A new milestone came with the merger between NDC and Bart Elevator Service, a long-established company in New York. This union not only expands our presence in North America but also establishes a brand-new Service Centre in New York City, enabling us to support customers across the region with even greater efficiency.
2023
Committed to sustainability, NDC joined forces with The University of Manchester to demonstrate the environmental advantages of refurbishment over purchasing new drives. Groundbreaking research led by Dr Laurence Stamford revealed that refurbished drives can lower the environmental impact of elevator installations by up to 91%. The first study of its kind worldwide, underscoring the positive impact of our approach.
2022
NDC strengthened its footprint in North America through the acquisition of Specialized Electronics Services Group in Dallas, Texas. This move gave us a cutting-edge Service Centre, enhancing both regional coverage and customer support capabilities.
2020
Our presence in the UK grew further with the relocation of our London Service Centre into a purpose-built 12,000 sq ft facility.
That year also saw the introduction of Simulift: an innovative platform replicating real site conditions. This development advanced our Test, Diagnose, Refurbish, Test philosophy, ensuring every refurbished drive is validated under field-like circumstances.
2019
NDC España acquired ATN Electronics in Alicante, extending its reach across Spain and reinforcing support for Southern European market.
NDC GmbH was founded in Germany, establishing a dedicated Sales & Technical Support Centre in Gelsenkirchen to serve the growing needs of the Central European market.
2018
Upgrades were made to our Head Office in Manchester including R&D and training facilities and including the addition of new offices and a modern service centre. These improvements created the ideal environment to deliver personalised, hands-on training programmes for our customers.
2016
NDC was honoured with the Queen's Award for Enterprise, the UK's most prestigious business distinction, celebrating growth and international trade achievements.
2014
NDC’s Manchester works was relocated to a purpose built facility at St Modwen Road. This new state of the art building allows us to develop our testing and R&D facilities.
2012
NDC launched its export services designed to give our customers around the world the benefits of NDC’s refurbished drives via its network of strategic partners.
2011
NDC opened its ServoLab in Manchester to support an increasing number of customers for the complete support for their servo and spindle motors. NDC ServoLab provides OEM quality repair of all makes and models of Servo Motors.
2010
In October 2010 our Southern Service Centre, having outgrown its existing facility in 3 years, relocated to larger 6000 sq. foot premises within the Slough Trading Estate. This latest investment is pivotal in supporting our customers in the South, South East and Greater London. It is ideally located as repair, test and training facility, and as a hub to despatch field engineers to undertake on-site fault finding. The new service centre has increased production capacity and additional function testing facilities.
2009
NDC developed its Test, Diagnose, Refurbish, Test philosophy which includes R&D capability in order to fully functional test repaired drives and offer refurbished drives as an alternative to conventional repairs.
2007
In 2007 our Southern Service Centre relocated to larger premises within the Slough Trading Estate, facilitating increased production and accommodating additional function testing cells.
2004
Due to increased growth NDC South East relocated to a dedicated 3,000 sq. ft. site in Slough. This allowed the company to offer a greater range of services to customers including 24 hour rapid response and the ability through advanced new equipment, to fully functionally test more electronic equipment.
1999
Northern Drives & Controls outgrew its facility at Barton Dock Road and was relocated to a dedicated 6,000 sq. ft. electronics laboratory facility in Trafford Park, Manchester. Over this short time the company had grown its customer base substantially and become known as a reliable repairer of industrial electronic equipment from a wide range of different manufacturers.
Further that year the company also acquired McCall's Electronics Company of Whitchurch Hampshire and renamed it NDC to service the electronics and automation market in the southeast.
1997
Following rapid expansion, Northern Drives & Controls was formed as a division of FBNL in Manchester to service the emerging electronic and automation repair market.