The extended Bunting-Redditch manufacturing plant for magnetic separation equipment has officially been opened.  The revamped facility includes additional manufacturing and storage space, a new test plant called the Customer Experience Centre, and a third floor of offices. Bunting’s European head office, Bunting-Berkhamsted – also UK-based – additionally offers manufacturing capability.

 “Despite delays and challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we now have a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, which is already providing the additional space needed to fulfil the growth in orders,” said Simon Ayling, Bunting’s European managing director.

The investment programme at Redditch increased both the manufacturing floor and office space by 50%.  The additional production space is already in use. The staged construction work started with the replacement of the entire roof of the manufacturing plant.  The next stage involved extending the manufacturing and stores areas.  The final work focused on a new third floor of offices and the new Customer Experience Centre where customers can participate in tests on a wide range of magnetic separators, metal detectors, and electrostatic separators.

The Customer Experience Centre includes a state-of-the-art laboratory and is believed to be one of the most advanced for magnetic and electrostatic separation in the world.  Companies processing and mining minerals, and recycling waste materials, send samples to the laboratory for controlled tests.  The tests demonstrate what separation is possible, ultimately leading to the purchase of production-sized magnetic and electrostatic separators.  The new test centre is 300% larger than the previous testing area, incorporating an extended range of laboratory-scale equipment to handle the increased demand for material tests. It offers designated areas for wet and dry testing on both high-intensity magnetic separators and electrostatic separators.  This latest investment in Bunting’s European laboratory facilities follows the creation of a recycling test centre in February 2018. www.mastermagnets.com

 

Bunting’s European managing director Simon Ayling and general manager of Bunting-Redditch Adrian Coleman in front of the extended Redditch facility

 

The Bunting-Redditch test laboratory which forms part of the new Customer Experience Centre
 

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