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Factory of the Month: The only way is Essex

New Holland Agriculture in Basildon is on track to manufacture a record number of tractors this year, a record for the plant. Plant Manager Colin Larkin and Material Handling Manager Dean Stephenson explain how deeper application of the company-wide production...

MTM Labels: Sign language

Manufacturers are continually searching for innovation that sticks. And for sign-maker MTM Labels that is only too literal as the company continues to produce labels and signs for factories and machinery that stay in place and in good condition throughout...
Twelve million poppies were manufactured by hand at The Poppy Factory for Remembrance Day 2012.

Memory Makers: Making Remembrance Day

Tom Moore visits The Poppy Factory where wounded, injured and sick veterans make the world’s most iconic symbol of remembrance. He discovers an inspiring and sorely needed nationwide scheme for intelligent skills transfer which recognises the talents of ex-Forces men...
Revenues are on the rise at TMAT

Soundproof strategy: TMAT

Tom Moore drops in on SME acoustic component manufacturer TMAT, to discuss with managing director Jason Lippitt how the firm has leapt out of the recession and tripled revenue since 2009. ...
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Waste busters: Kimberly-Clark

Tom Moore discusses how Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies site in Barton-upon-Humber has slashed waste levels with plant manager Graham Tongue. ...
The Cosworth F1 engine being used in the inspiring Bloodhound super sonic car project

Cosworth: Engine of growth

When Ford pulled out of Formula One, Cosworth did what a good engineer would do: a full strip down and re-build of the business, focusing on new applications in growth markets. Will Stirling hears about a story of success through...
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Racking up the improvements

On the face of it, making storage and shelving systems doesn’t seem like the most obvious branch of manufacturing to apply lean principles to. Storage systems are designed, steel is rolled, welded and painted, and goods go out the door...
Hampshire Cosmetics

Far from cosmetic

In the current climate it might be imagined that optimism would be pretty thin on the ground at a UK manufacturing SME with a predominantly domestic market and working in a highly regulated sector. Not so for Hampshire Cosmetics. Jane...

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