Formed in 1990, Thompson Manufacturing & Engineering Ltd has established a strong reputation as a supplier to a wide range of industrial equipment and specialist automotive manufacturers, not to mention the entertainment sector – having produced walkways for the Millennium Dome, along with numerous fabrications for the staging of the Athens Olympics and the exhibition area at Jaguar’s famous Browns Lane site in Coventry.

“Our ability to win such high profile contracts is based on focusing clearly on customer service,” says managing director, Don Thompson. “That not only means aggressive pricing to combat producers in India or China, but also short delivery lead times to compete against Eastern European suppliers. We are very much a service-led organisation and quite simply, aim to never let our customers down.”

The new Prima machine is configured to automatically shut down once it runs out of material or has completed the required production run. It can also be monitored remotely by means of a webcam and, according to Thompson, loaded with different gauge materials and programmed to produce a wide mix of components while operating unattended.

Responsiveness like this also accounts for Thompson Manufacturing’s status as a one of JCB Heavy Products Division’s longest serving suppliers. “JCB’s requirements for relatively small batches on short lead times play to our strengths, Thompson continues. “Just in Time is now the norm for us. So, everything we do is aimed at reducing set up and lead times, minimising costs and de-skilling our production processes.”

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