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A British engineering firm is bucking the worldwide trend with an impressive £5 million worth of new business in spite of the gloomy global financial crisis.
Thompson, based in Halesowen, has secured contracts for 7 new friction welding machines from many of the top international makers of construction machine components including Caterpillar.
The machines, made at Thompson’s manufacturing facilities in Hereward Rise and Chancel Way, are specially designed to friction weld a variety of hydraulic cylinder piston rods in a wide range of diameters from 20-130mm.
Four of the machines have been supplied to customers in Europe, the United States and the Far East including two Caterpillar plants. The remainder will shortly be delivered to manufacturers based in South America and Asia.
Thompson says its success in producing versatile, robust equipment for friction welding construction machine parts can be attributed to its continued investment in research and development, and the skills of its engineering team.
“Thompson machines are continually developed so they offer the latest innovations for customers who want the very best in terms of product quality and integrity, especially for the manufacture of parts such as piston rods,” explained Thompson’s sales manager Nick Edge.
Thompson’s engineering team has developed a series of new machine features that includes environment-friendly, low energy and quiet-running drives and a new linear track system for more streamlined operation of the weld head unit.
“Thompson has been producing equipment for construction machine makers for more than 40 years and it is the company’s ongoing investment in innovation, which ensures Thompson’s position at the forefront of the market,” added Nick Edge.
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