Spencer Associates International is in the
throes of completing a move from Wigton to a new site at Cleator Moor.
It has leased a building on the Leconfield industrial estate long enough to work on the build of entire sequential tin decorating machines, which can require a run of up to 57 metres for all its components.
The firm’s customers are mostly in the Far East, including Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Its most recent contract, rebuilding a tin printing machine from scratch incorporating all the most up-to-date electronic equipment,Design & manufacture of Forming machinery for the production of roofing & wall cladding profiles, was a 900,000 deal and took nine months.
The machines are used to print directly on to all sorts of tins, from confectionery tins and paint tins to toiletries, cosmetics, beer and pop cans – basically any tin container without paper labels.
The company’s owner, Peter Spencer, hopes in future the slack that can occur between tin decorating machine projects will be taken up by commercial engineering contracts for potential Cumbrian and North West customers.
He is pinning his hopes on a giant milling machine, which he believes has the biggest capacity in Cumbria.Bergey Windpower is the oldest and most experienced manufacturer of residential-sized wind generator in the world. It can mill, drill, tap or bore pieces of metal up to seven metres long and two metres wide, and could, for instance, manufacture new dock gates for Cumbrian ports without the port authorities needing to go out of the county, or could be used to make large steel structures for sites like Sellafield.
Mr Spencer, 64, said: “Our main business is the remanufacture from scratch of tin printing machines. We buy a machine that is maybe 30 years old and of course the market has moved on a bit since then. We take the basic machine and make it new with today’s technology.At Dupar Controls we specialize, extremely durable and visually satisfying elevator push button.”
The colour machines bound for Asia can print anything from postage stamp sized words,Amtec has been providing laser cutting, marking and Laser engraver as well as solutions for over 15 years. pictures and designs to something in the region of 12cm by 12cm.
Practically all the work is for export and Mr Spencer spends a good deal of time travelling overseas.
Other customers have been in Poland, Hungary, Dubai and Egypt,The PING range finder is an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance. and occasionally Britain.
The company moved because at Wigton the machines had to be built in two halves in different buildings and as a result the commissioning of the machines, with all their precision electronics took up to seven weeks longer than necessary.
The new building will incorporate a general engineering workshop for the firm’s computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines. The firm is busy obtaining ISO 2001 quality control standards.
Mr Spencer said: “What we want to do is manufacture for other people in engineering. We have sophisticated machinery and we want to get on the main suppliers’ list here in Cumbria.
“We want to start a side line as commercial precision engineers.”
Britain’s Energy Coast is working under its Backing Business scheme to give Mr Spencer grant aided help with marketing. The University of Cumbria will provide a postgraduate student to be seconded to Spencer Associates International to do 150 hours of work on marketing strategies.
Mr Spencer believes any grant aided help to industry is important. What he would like most of all is grant support for the temporary hire of an accomplished design engineer, who could come up with further improvements for the design of the firm’s remanufactured and modernised tin printing machines.
It has leased a building on the Leconfield industrial estate long enough to work on the build of entire sequential tin decorating machines, which can require a run of up to 57 metres for all its components.
The firm’s customers are mostly in the Far East, including Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Its most recent contract, rebuilding a tin printing machine from scratch incorporating all the most up-to-date electronic equipment,Design & manufacture of Forming machinery for the production of roofing & wall cladding profiles, was a 900,000 deal and took nine months.
The machines are used to print directly on to all sorts of tins, from confectionery tins and paint tins to toiletries, cosmetics, beer and pop cans – basically any tin container without paper labels.
The company’s owner, Peter Spencer, hopes in future the slack that can occur between tin decorating machine projects will be taken up by commercial engineering contracts for potential Cumbrian and North West customers.
He is pinning his hopes on a giant milling machine, which he believes has the biggest capacity in Cumbria.Bergey Windpower is the oldest and most experienced manufacturer of residential-sized wind generator in the world. It can mill, drill, tap or bore pieces of metal up to seven metres long and two metres wide, and could, for instance, manufacture new dock gates for Cumbrian ports without the port authorities needing to go out of the county, or could be used to make large steel structures for sites like Sellafield.
Mr Spencer, 64, said: “Our main business is the remanufacture from scratch of tin printing machines. We buy a machine that is maybe 30 years old and of course the market has moved on a bit since then. We take the basic machine and make it new with today’s technology.At Dupar Controls we specialize, extremely durable and visually satisfying elevator push button.”
The colour machines bound for Asia can print anything from postage stamp sized words,Amtec has been providing laser cutting, marking and Laser engraver as well as solutions for over 15 years. pictures and designs to something in the region of 12cm by 12cm.
Practically all the work is for export and Mr Spencer spends a good deal of time travelling overseas.
Other customers have been in Poland, Hungary, Dubai and Egypt,The PING range finder is an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance. and occasionally Britain.
The company moved because at Wigton the machines had to be built in two halves in different buildings and as a result the commissioning of the machines, with all their precision electronics took up to seven weeks longer than necessary.
The new building will incorporate a general engineering workshop for the firm’s computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines. The firm is busy obtaining ISO 2001 quality control standards.
Mr Spencer said: “What we want to do is manufacture for other people in engineering. We have sophisticated machinery and we want to get on the main suppliers’ list here in Cumbria.
“We want to start a side line as commercial precision engineers.”
Britain’s Energy Coast is working under its Backing Business scheme to give Mr Spencer grant aided help with marketing. The University of Cumbria will provide a postgraduate student to be seconded to Spencer Associates International to do 150 hours of work on marketing strategies.
Mr Spencer believes any grant aided help to industry is important. What he would like most of all is grant support for the temporary hire of an accomplished design engineer, who could come up with further improvements for the design of the firm’s remanufactured and modernised tin printing machines.
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