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News Release from: Remploy Electronics
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
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Remploy and Grundfos open manufacturing
facility
Remploy and Grundfos celebrated their closer business ties by holding an official opening ceremony for the new Remploy unit at Grundfos' headquarters in Leighton Buzzard, UK.
Remploy and Grundfos celebrated their closer business ties by holding an official opening ceremony for the new Remploy unit at Grundfos' headquarters in Leighton Buzzard The opening marks the next stage in a partnership first instigated in 2003
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The unit - where a Remploy contract manufacturing team produces small and medium volume specialist pump systems - is situated within the Grundfos engineering department.
It currently employs 6 people and has already proved to be very successful.
Both parties are benefiting from Remploy being on-site in an independent, self-contained production unit with logistics, communication and engineering capacity all under one roof.
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With the success of the scheme it is hoped to expand the unit so that Remploy can take on additional functions within the department, becoming even more integrated with Grundfos' activities.
Rob Farran, Remploy team leader, said: "The whole team has been excited setting up the production area and working on the new products coming in".
"Grundfos' staff have been very supportive and we couldn't have achieved this without them.
We are really looking forward to growing the scope of the operation." * About Remploy - Remploy is the UK's leading supplier of employment opportunities for disabled people.
With over 80 factories in the UK, Remploy supplies half the top British companies with goods and services, turning over more than £250 million annually.
The company's manufacturing activities range from motor and electronic assemblies, through furniture, to printing and packaging.
Services include IT recycling, office support and CCTV monitoring.
Remploy Electronics is a standalone division created in 2003 to focus entirely on providing manufacturing services to the electronics sector.
It has five dedicated production sites offering printed circuit board (PCB), cable and wiring harness, and electro-mechanical assembly.
* About Grundfos Pumps - Grundfos Pumps is a UK leader in the supply of pumps and pump systems for domestic, commercial building services and process industry applications, as well as being a major supplier to the water supply and treatment industries and provider of packaged fire sets.
It is part of the Grundfos Group that employs over 13,000 people in sales and production roles in 67 countries worldwide.
Founded in Denmark in 1945, the Group produces over 10 million pumps per year covering about 50% of the world circulator market.
It has an annual turnover in excess of £1 billion.
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