Process filter maker Amazon Filters has added more capacity to its housing component manufacturing with two semi-automated CNC mills going live.
Their purchase and implementation are the latest stages in a £1 million (€1.15 million) investment programme at the Surrey-based firm, which supplies all industries worldwide that rely on process filtration.
Capital expenditure on new machinery supports Amazon Filters’ policy of ‘vertical integration’ in which manufacturing is increasingly done in-house with less reliance on third parties or sub-contractors.
The aim is to support ‘quick and able’ manufacturing, the fast, accurate capacity to turn round customer orders, including complex and bespoke projects, whatever their size and wherever they originate in the world.
The new CNC equipment complements a doubling of staff numbers in housing component manufacture from six operatives three years ago to 12 now and with a further appointment due in 2023.
Team members work in a dedicated production hub at the 37-year-old firm’s Camberley factory processing raw, hardcore metal bars, blocks, sheets and tubes into parts ready for welding and final housing assembly.
Adrian Price, lead fabricator for housing component manufacturing, said: “It’s big-scale work and we represent the start of the process for making housings.
“In line with the company’s expansion, we moved to our separate and bigger hub from under a mezzanine floor in the main production centre in 2019.
“The extra space and capacity have enabled us to do far more in-house rather than rely on subcontractors or third-party suppliers.
“As the worldwide market expands, the ability to do things in-house becomes more important so we have taken the opportunity to grasp the nettle and improve our processes.”
Amazon Filters boosts component manufacturing with machining investment
