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September 2015 18
One of the UK’s leading manufacturers of
round and profile wires has been awarded
two quality accreditations to reinforce
its commitment to health and safety and
environmental best practice.
Alloy Wire, which employs 25 people
across its factories in the West Midlands
and Yorkshire, took just six months to
work towards and secure OHSAS 18001
and ISO 14001 and now plans to use the
approvals to win new work across the
nuclear, aerospace, spring, defence and oil
and gas sectors.
The firm is already enjoying a host of
operational benefits as a result of its two
commitments, including minimising
risk of production delays and downtime
through accidents and gaining significant
cost savings in waste, recycling and
energy consumption.
Mark Venables, managing director, said:
“These quality accreditations epitomise
our desire for continuous improvement,
efficient risk assessment and extensive
training for all of our staff.
“The fact we were awarded so quickly
shows that most of our internal processes
were already working and we hope that
this news will provide further assurances
to our global client base that they
work with a company that cares about
safety and wire production that is as
environmentally friendly as it can be.”
He added: “It’s also been a commercial
decision to make us even more
competitive and, increasingly, some
customers are demanding you meet
environmental targets in order to be just
included in a tender.”
Alloy Wire is a manufacturer of precision
drawn round wire, flat wire and shaped
wire in a comprehensive range of high
performance and exotic nickel alloys.
The company supplies wire from 0.025mm
(0.001") to 21mm (0.827") and currently
works with 4,000 customers in 15 sectors.
Its extensive stockholding of materials,
ability to provide small batch quantities
and three-week lead times has helped
it establish a global reputation that sees
Alloy Wire products sent to more than 45
countries across the world.
AlloyWire Ltd – UK
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Double quality accreditation success
▲ ▲ The Alloy Wire team celebrates receiving the quality accreditations
Crafts’ unique ability
Many of the world’s largest wire and cable producers trust Crafts Technology because of its
ability to provide innovative solutions to severe wear and corrosion problems.
For more than 20
years, the company
has produced
precision wire
annealer rings,
made from
tungsten carbide,
and users of
these specialised rings have experience greatly extended wear life in comparison to other
hardened materials.
The unique material characteristics of solid tungsten carbide wire annealer rings not only
provide for exceptional wear life but also contribute to the production of a higher quality
wire with exceptional signal characteristics.
Crafts Technology understands how to create an ultra-hard material solution that can
help users increase part quality and reduce production equipment downtime, giving the
company a competitive advantage. It is not uncommon for users of tungsten carbide wear
parts to increase service life by a factor of ten to 100 times that of hardened steel, which
provides users with maximum equipment up-time and productivity.
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▲ ▲ The range of products on offer from Crafts Technology
Helping cut costs
CILS prints barcodes, serial
numbers and batch numbers,
providing immediate,
custom-printed durable labels for
all industrial applications.
The company manufactures high
performance ‘ready-to-apply’
barcode and ‘variable data’
labels with a range of over 3,500
application-specific durable label
material/adhesive combinations,
resistant to the harshest industrial
conditions including extreme
temperatures (+388°C), chemicals/
solvents, abrasion, oil/fuels, etc.
Labels are constructed to any
size, shape and colour, and can be
pre-printed with corporate designs.
CILS – UK
Website: