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News Release from: Ashton Seals
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Team on 03 December 2004
Seals company hosts group expansion
The Ashton Group of Companies is making its own contribution to halt the UK-wide manufacturing decline.
The Ashton Group of Companies, founded in 1866, has made its own contribution to halt the UK wide manufacturing decline The recent success of the group began in 1999 when the group's seals and lubrication distribution subsidiary - Ashton Seals - relocated from Sheffield to a modern, purpose-built site at Cortonwood Business Park in the Dearne Valley
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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From this strategically situated sales and distribution centre, Ashton Seals has taken advantage of its excellent location by implementing an effective stock management system which, coupled with a strong emphasis on customer service, has enabled the company to grow operate from a smaller area.
This has released space to expand the range of operations carried out at Cortonwood.
In 2003, Ashton Seals took advantage of an opportunity to expand by acquiring the gasket cutting company Clough (Croydon), a specialist in the production of high quality gaskets and the supply of sheet jointing; all of which complement the existing Ashton Seals' portfolio and which are manufactured at its Barnsley facility, marking the return of manufacturing to the Dearne Valley.
Ashton Seals' Managing Director, Peter Minchin, said: "Although the UK economy has fared better than most of the world's main economies, the country's manufacturing sector is struggling to come out of a black hole but the success of the Ashton Seals' gasket division has proved that manufacturing still has a key role to play in UK industry".
The sector continues to lose workers, currently at a rate of 130,000 per year, but the Ashton Group continues to reverse this trend and, in the autumn of this year, Ashton Seals' sister company, Ashtons (Sheffield), will relocate from Upper Allen Street in Sheffield to share the extended facility at Cortonwood with Ashton Seals.
Ashtons (Sheffield) expertise is in providing a comprehensive range of plastic point-of-sale packaging, promotional and stationery products and related services.
The relocation and expansion will boost the local economy in the Dearne Valley with the creation of additional jobs.
Ashton (Sheffield) Managing Director, Walter Campbell, said: "The move to a modern purpose built facility will substantially reduce the companies overheads and improve our productivity through more efficient working frontiers".
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