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Zotefoams invests for future growth

Announces £23 million initial investment in third foam manufacturing site with a major capacity investment to meet continuing demand for its range of unique, high quality foam products Zotefoams plc, the Croydon, UK-headquartered manufacturer of cellular materials, has announced an investment plan supported by its shareholders.  Headlining the plan is a £23 million initial investment in a third foam manufacturing production site in central Europe, scheduled to come on stream in 2020 and increasing capacity for the Group’s range of polyolefin foams by s...

Brand New Forklift Arrived At Our Busy Shop Floor

Our brand new forklift has arrived at the busy shopfloor to cope with extra warehouse and shipping demands. This not only increases our productivity and business turnover but also improves Health and Saftey and significantly reduces the noise polution.

£12 million investment planned to boost manufacturing capacity at Croydon facility

£12 million investment planned to boost manufacturing capacity at Croydon facility 14 December 2017 – Zotefoams, a world leader in cellular materials technology, is pleased to announce that it will invest approximately £12 million to increase capacity at its Croydon, UK site.  Over the past few years demand for High-Performance Products (HPP) has increased and with strong customer interest in this product range we expect demand to continue to grow significantly. The planned investment announced today is to install low-pressure (“LP”) autoclaves int...

Southern Manufacturing and Electronic Exhibition 2018

Kewell Converters will be exhibiting at the largest and longest-running annual engineering exhibition in the UK "Southern Manufacturing and Electronics 2018" at STAND L125! Please come visit, say hello or email to book a meeting at the show in advance. Southern Manufacturing & Electronics is the UK's largest annual manufacturing technology, electronics and subcontracting exhibition. Southern Manufacturing 2018 opens at FIVE, Farnborough from FEBRUARY 6th to FEBRUARY 8th 2018. Check Out https://youtu.be/bYtVBw5IKKs The UK's LARGEST regional manufacturing t...

Kewells Christmas & New Year shut down for 2017/2018!

Christmas & New Year 2017-18. Kewell Converters last working day for of the year will be Friday 22nd December 2017 and we will return on Tuesday 2nd January 2018. Happy Christmas and Festive Best Wishes! 

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M&MT: A cut above the rest

Kewell Converters position as one of the UK’s leading companies in the foam marketplace isn’t down to chance. Since 1971, the company has continued to explore the latest technologies and manufacturing processes to deliver for its customers. “This year we decided to make a significant six figure investment in a stateof-the-art OFS-VS CNC Vertical Contour Cutting Machine. The all-purpose machine is a fast and compact vertical CNC foam saw for processing blocks or stacks of sheets of foam or non-woven products,” says Commercial Director, Marcos Kewell. At first glance, ...

Do you have a composite material challenge we can help you solve with technical FOAM Engineering?

https://www.composites-manufacturing.com/ Do you have a composite material engineering challenge we can help you solve? Cutting or routing complex engineering parts from high specification foam for the automotive, aerospace, healthcare, marine and construction sectors is what we do best! This year we decided to make a significant six figure investment in The OFS-VS CNC Vertical Contour Cutting Machine to faster and better serve our customers. Our customers are already benefiting from faster more accurate production of automotive trim and panels as well as high specification aviation and ma...

New KCL Production Team members due to growth

After successful stints with us temping for the last 3 months, Dave has been selected to become permanent member of the Production Team. Dave Owen: Dave has joined the Fabrication Team under the watch full eye of Team Leader John.  Dave is a keen hobbyist, from metal detecting to Lego and even has a few creepy crawly pets - tarantulas!  We welcome him to the company and help us continuing the amazing growth we have seen over recent months.

New £300k state-of-the-art CNC Vertical Contour Cutting machine

JUNE 2017 @ Kewell Converters Ltd (@KewellCon) - We have just commissioned our new Albrecht Baumer CNC Vertical contour cutting machine which will significantly enhance the ability of the business to serve a wider variety of customers and applications. The accuracy, speed and precision of cut will enable us to broaden our range of products and parts for our existing and new customers as well as in some cases reducing lead times for customers.    All-purpose new vertical CNC contour cutting machine for the converting of sheets and block materials with utmost production th...