After residing in Castle Bromwich Business Park since 1990, Guhring has outgrown its existing premises. Now, the company is set to move to a purpose-built 55,000ft2 facility on the new Birmingham Advanced Manufacturing Hub. Located near the M6 and the main A38 arterial road, the facility will enable Guhring to move and expand its HSS, carbide and PCD cutting tool production operations all under one roof.
The new factory commenced construction in February 2016 and the movement of machine tools and inventory will take place throughout February until April with no disruption to service. Guhring is aiming to have all its staff and equipment in the new factory and operational for 18th April with an official opening ceremony planned for early summer 2017.
Currently employing over 80 people, the new £11 million investment will allow Guhring to organically grow and achieve its ambition of employing 125 staff whilst creating greater market penetration in its core markets.
Guhring's national sales manager, Dave Hudson, said: "We are excited by the prospect of moving to a new home for Guhring to support the UK manufacturing industry. The new site will make Guhring one of the UK's largest cutting tool manufacturers and it will give us considerable space to install new plant and equipment in order further grow our production and coating of specialised carbide, HSS and PCD tooling products. In addition, we will have the capacity to stock a complete range of standard and special products for immediate delivery to customers.
"As well as growing our production and service capacity and capability, we will also be able to demonstrate to customers live cutting trials on the latest machine tools that we will be installing in a new demonstration area,” he continued. “The investment is significant and our aim will be to manufacture and deliver a complete solution of bespoke cutting tools and applications from under one roof."
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