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Further Investment at our Lufton facility brings great opportunities.

Q1 2020: FGP Lufton manufacturing capability and capacity benefits from further manufacturing investment that brings capability alignment with FGP systems. This strategy is the enabler to engineer better engineering solutions (productivity), risk management (protecting the customers with dual source capability), making easy decisions hard when making work sharing strategies that meets our customers risk/disaster strategies in sharing work allocation.

The whole team at Lufton have been lifted by this change that has now ensured operational continuity with the removal of machines that were in place allowing multi-manning and rapid support across group, through controlled transition of work – truly one company.

An outstanding effort in terms of planning and execution of this project all completed with minimal disruption to operations many thanks to Simon Griffiths-Hughes and his team for their commitment and endeavor in meeting the challenging 13 day timeline.

Paul Clark, Director of Operations

Simon Griffiths-Hughes, Engineering Director, FGP Systems and FGP Lufton

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