Ransomes Industrial Estate, also known as Ransomes Europark, is a combined retail and business park located in Priory Heath Ward, Ipswich, on the southeastern edge of Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. It is named after Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, which still maintains a presence on the park.
Primarily the park is home to light industrial and logistics companies, although there is a growing number of retailers and offices, including the headquarters of KDM International and MSC UK.
In February 2008 [update] , it was announced that IKEA was in talks to take on part of the estate occupied by Crane Fluid Systems for a new store. [2]
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Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment. Ransomes also manufactured Direct Current electric motors in a wide range of sizes, and electric forklift trucks and tractors. They manufactured aeroplanes during the First World War. Their base, specially set up in 1845, was named Orwell Works.
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