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…in five years
The company has a family culture
and dedicates considerable time and
investment to staff training and invest-
ment. 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 3,000m
2
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
:
www.metalube.co.uk▲
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One of the new blending tanks at the site
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The company built a new laboratory and invested over £100,000 in new equipment