Our client is one of the UK’s leading Convertors and Manufacturers of Foam products from Design and prototype through to product introduction specialities with a strong history dating back to 1995.
Supplying European and Middle east customers from its Midlands Manufacturing base.
Background
The world Pandemic (COVID-19) had a big impact of the financial stability of the business and the company looked at ways of diversifying its products in order to support its current customers and deliver long term employment to its employee’s
The company developed a plan to supply the UK government with PPE (Face visors) to help reduce the number of COVID-19 deaths and reduce the number of positive cases, to support the UK NHS.
The company wanted to set up a dedicated Manufacturing facility to support the large number of orders required by the NHS each month. They engaged Golden Thread Training Ltd to support with an Interim Operations Director role.
Key Deliverables & Benefits
New site design & set up within 1 month.
Employee introduction & training (300+).
Waste reduction including site zero landfill strategy.
Introduction of a Daily Performance review to eliminate any supply issues and address problems through robust Problem-solving systems.
All major Kpi’s including Health & Safety, Production, Staff turnover and Cost all achieved target.
Volume increased from 150,000 units per week to 3,000,000 per week within a 6 weeks period.
