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News Release from: Hardinge Machine Tools
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2006
Hardinge UK machine tool sites
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Hardinge Machine Tools has announced that its Leicester and Exeter facilities now differentiate, unequivocally from each other to increase operational efficiencies and avoid duplication.
Hardinge's Leicester and Exeter facilities in the UK are given a new focus and separate 'spheres of influence' as a route to increasing sales and improving both customer service and operational efficiencies UK market-leading machine tool and workholding specialist - Hardinge Machine Tools - has revealed plans concerning the future activities of its Leicester and Exeter facilities
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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These plans - enshrined in Phase 2 of Hardinge's UK Corporate Strategy - differentiate, unequivocally, the Leicester and Exeter facilities from one another - and are intended to increase operational efficiencies, avoid duplication and improve customer service and response.
Hardinge is experiencing a dramatic upturn in the sale of its lathes, machining centres and grinding machines within the UK, all brought about by the implementation, over the last two years, of the company's Phase 1 Corporate Strategy.
This strategy, which included the acquisition and integration of Bridgeport, the move to new premises in Leicester, the creation of a unified and focused sales team, etc, has helped reposition the company and provide the solid foundations for the company's continuing growth and success.
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Hardinge is expected to reveal some impressive sales results for 2006 (250 machine tools sold in the UK Market alone by the end of the year - and total sales revenue from all UK operations expected to top GBP 33 million over the same period).
Said David Andrew, sales and marketing director at Hardinge: "Our Phase 1 Strategy has worked well, the timing is now right to implement Phase 2 of our strategy." Under the new arrangement, effective from January 2007, the company's Leicester facility, as well as maintaining its global 'Centre of Excellence' position for The Hardinge Group's milling operations, will be the centre for all UK machine tool sales (including UK exports), applications and technical support, after-sales and service and will also become the location for Hardinge's UK distribution and logistics operations and the company's demonstration facilities.
Hardinge's Exeter facility will house the company's human resources, finance, accounting and administration departments - as well as being the hub for all Hardinge's workholding business (itself estimated to be worth over GBP 1 million/year).
Concluded Andrew: "The Phase 2 strategy (like the Phase 1 strategy that preceded it) is all about improving the company's performance and ensuring that our customers can access our services quickly and easily.
By removing duplication between the two sites customers will experience and receive more efficient and more effective customer service.".
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