From apprentice to running the show: James Kelly has ridden the data-centre construction boom at LMH

Metal fabricator to grow staff numbers to 350, with €120m revenue in its sights

James Kelly of LMH Engineering Ltd in Arklow. Photo: Gerry Mooney

On the same morning that James ­Kelly’s world was turned upside down by the death of his ­beloved ­mother, he somehow rustled up the strength to pull off one of the boldest moves of his business career to date.

In 2016, the now 42-year-old managing director and co-owner of LMH Engineering had spent months pursuing a contract to help manufacture components for a huge Facebook data centre in Clonee, Co Meath.

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