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Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2016
Industrynews
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• Electrolytic plating
• Candojet hot water cleaning
• Electrolytic & Ultrasonic degreasing
• Welding wire cleaning and copper coating
• Pickling & phosphating
Copperjet -
High speed
copper coating on
welding wire
…in five years
assured that they are receiving a full
service from individuals who
understand our products, speak their
language and understand their business
cultures.”
It is the Metalube team that is the
backbone of the company and in the
past five years the work force has
nearly doubled from 21 to 40 staff. The
company has a family culture and
dedicates considerable time and
investment to staff training and
investment. It also hosts a variety of
social events, which bring people from
across the business together.
The company last year made a huge
investment opening a brand new
Manchester laboratory, which is now
fully operational having doubled its
capacity to 126m². The space
provides a bright and airy workplace
for solving tough everyday technical
challenges. It is purpose-built and
fitted with specialist furniture and
equipment. The facility meets all the
requirements for a modern lubricant
developer.
Alongside the laboratory the company
invested £100,000 in new equipment to
further enhance development capability.
This new apparatus includes a
Stanhope Seta 4-ball tester, Mettler
differential scanning calorimeter and
Liebisch Kesternich cabinet, which all
cover the key functional properties of
friction and wear, thermal stability and
corrosion protection.
With success and growth comes the
need for more manufacturing and
warehouse space and fortunately this
year the site adjacent to the
Manchester plant became available.
This increases the space accessible
to the company by over 70 per cent
and Metalube now occupies a
one-hectare site, which includes a
3,000m2 covered factory, warehousing
and office space alongside its new
laboratory.
The company has also purchased four
new Jungheinrich forklift trucks to
service this new and improved
operation. Two new blending tanks
have also been purchased, which
enhance manufacturing capability,
enabling the company to keep up with
increased demand.
Robert Brown added: “We are never
complacent and are always looking at
new ways to grow and improve. As a
management team, we have made an
on-going commitment to invest profits
back into the business, improving the
way we work and adding to our
productivity. This strategy has proven
wise, given the demand we now have
for our range of superior quality
lubricants.”
Metalube Ltd – UK
Website:
❍ One of the new blending tanks at the
site
❍ The company built a new laboratory and invested over £100,000 in new equipment