Based on its own 7 acre offices and manufacturing complex, in the heart of England, Stoke on Trent, Unilathe has recently structured a new ‘Manufacturing Partnership – Business Model’, based on its extensive market knowledge and engineering skill sets, to help customers in the long term, seamlessly facilitate their own expansion plans, based on reducing their own internal manufacturing facilities.

Unilathe’s extensive micro-management, sub-contract machining, fabrications, sub-assembly and finishing facilities, coupled with its large and quickly expandable operational footprint, positions it as a highly skilled, expert and very resourceful manufacturing facility.  

One that has the management experience and physical capability to embrace, expand with and invest in a customer’s longterm development plans.   Plans that will not only require the efficient and fully integrated transfer of a customer’s established manufacturing operations, safely into the Unilathe facility, but also in the longer term, development of those transferred manufacturing facilities in terms of their future technologies and machining capabilities.

Here, Unilathe’s fully integrated ‘Manufacturing Partnership’ programmes are ideally structured to accommodate such long term plans, due to its centralised UK location and ability to quickly expand both its manufacturing facilities and physical footprint.

Eddie Sims - Chairman said    “We have recognised for some years now, that embracing change and focusing / investing in your core brand strengths, are the keys to a company’s long term success.   We are excellent machinists and finishers of medium to heavy metal / alloy products, which is why we have now developed a new market offering in ‘Manufacturing Partnerships’ based on a collaborative business model, enabling companies to better achieve their own brand goals, without the burden of having to traditionally Make What They Sell.”

Re-focusing a company’s strengths is not without its risks.   However properly planned and managed, slowly and in part or whole, the strategic transfer of the ‘Making Process’ from an internal activity, to a third party collaborative partnership, does not mean losing control.  It will improve management effectiveness, streamline product supply, drive out cost and raise both efficiency levels and response times.

Unilathe’s proven expertise in such environmentally sensitive and safety conscious markets as aerospace, mining, oil & gas, including the rail industry, pumps & valves, off-highway plant and equipment, extends an excellent platform of resources and market understanding, with which potential companies can explore in confidence, the feasibility, practicalities and benefits of downscaling their own production facilities.

This is a particularly important feature of the Unilathe set-up and management succession structure, in that its flexibility and ability to accommodate and grow, dedicated manufacturing cells, or entire production areas for its customers, enables them to not only have the extra capacity to safely support their new sales growth, but also pass over their production overloads, even on a short term basis, to Unilathe.

For more information please contact:     

Eddie Sims – Chairman. Tel:  0044 (0) 1782 532000

 E.mail:  eddiesims@unilathe.co.uk