Mollart grows workforce numbers by 20%, enlarges manufacturing space, as business booms across the board
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With high levels of business across its three divisions of machine tool build, subcontract machining and tooling supply, Mollart Engineering has entered 2014 with a 20% increase in its headcount, compared to a year ago.
In addition to investment in people, the Chessington, Surrey headquarters and Resolven, South Wales operations are benefiting from an investment of £1.2 million in new equipment, the extension of a temperature-controlled quality centre at Chessington, incorporating a clean room area, and an additional 10,000 ft² fabrication facility in Wales.
Now employing 140 people on the two sites and with sales running up to the year end in March on schedule to top £17 million (an increase of 12%), the new recruits include seven apprentices at Resolven and two Brunel University graduates at Chessington.
Managing director Guy Mollart says: "Due to the wide-ranging variety of different technologies and expertise in the company, from machine tool design, process development and build through to production engineering support using the very latest multi-axis machine tools, these budding engineers have a golden opportunity to learn and develop skills for their own, and our, future."
Production equipment ordered/being delivered includes a Mazak VTC-80/30SR multiple face milling and 5-axis machining centre, with 110° swinging spindle, plus a Wenzle Liberty LH 108Y-200 5-axis co-ordinate measuring machine with a 3 m bed length. Together, these machines represent an investment of £350,000.
With this latest Liberty installation at Chessington, Mollart now has six Wenzle CMMs on the two sites.
