Über uns

Establishment and growth

set up and establishment of the Qualitetch Components Ltd business

Premises purchased outright

Turnover reaches £0.5M

First exhibition trade show and first ISO 9001 accreditation attained and the sudden death of Managing Director Bob Rathbone

Company restructured with new Managing Director - Barry Dupee  and Sales Manager Alexander Craig

Expansion of component forming capacity and new network computer system installed

Qualiform set up as a post operations cell with tool making capabilities

Wire erosion facility incorporated within the tool room and pro engineer software installed. We also achieved the investors in people standard

Qualitetch took the team to Disneyworld Florida for Christmas as the turnover target was reached. Also Solidworks software installed

Factory extended to house the environmental control plant & volume etch line facility

New automated stripping line installed and open plan offices built for sales, finance, quality and engineering departments

Design for manufacture service launched and won an award from the Evening Telegraph for training

Redthorn MRP system introduced to give real time reporting to production

Qualitetch joined PCMI. Purchase of high precision spot welder. Introduction of lead free solder policy. Manufactured and commissioned the first universal form tool.

Became ROHS compliant. Purchase of new multi chamber Chemcut etching machine to increase manufacturing capacity. Form in place gasket capability service introduced

Lean manufacturing plans introduced for production. 5s program introduced. Alexander Craig becomes Managing Director

Re-shuffle and strengthening of the strategic management team. Two new Chemcut etching lines installed. Introduction of kan ban feed to line service. New precision toggle presses introduced

Following installation of our new effluent water treatment plant, we achieved a 2/3's saving on ppm emmissions.

two key staff members completed post apprentiship training and achieved HNC's in mechanical engineering

Two new apprentices taken on. Restructuring of the quality management system to consolidate all achieved ISO standards 9001 & 14001

Alexander Craig completes management buy out of Qualitetch.  New lamination equipment installed

Sales & finance move into newly refurbished offices. New interactive website launched www.qualitetch.co.uk

Refurbishment completed within our tool-room and forming cells. New maintenance technician employed to cope with rising demand.

New ISO 9001:2008 standard achieved. New apprentice taken on. A further production engineer employed to help with major demand rises through 2010

New operations manager joins the team. New branding framework completed and new Qualitetch logo branding launched

New metal cleaning line installed. further sales engineer employed. New buyer joins the team

5 year strategy completed with MAS. upgrading of effluent water treatment plant to cope with greater capacity.

New etching line installed to cope with demand capacity. Refurbishment of dispatch area completed to improve our lean manufacturing process flow route

New printing and laminating area built complete  using lean principles. New developing production line installed to double our capacity through manufacturing process.

FREE photo tooling introduced to invest in our customers growth. Southern Manufacturing exhibition attended in Farnborough.

Upgrades completed for improvement to the facility infrastructure including metal stores, etch-room and general work flow routes

£300k investment started to re-equip the plant. New Quality staff employed to cope with growth.

New Etching line installed to cope with increased manufacturing needs. New fully automated cleaning line installed to ensure consistency through the photo etching process

New automated optical inspection equipment installed to  include a bed profile size of 500mm x 400mm

June 2016 Qualitetch achieves AS9100C aerospace standard

investment into new CMM inspection equipment.

Further investment into new EDM wire erosion equipment to increase capacity for both tool-making and bespoke customer parts.

2 new sales engineers employed due to significant turnover growth increase

ISO 14001 environmental standard audit completed and renewed once again

End of financial year Feb 2018 completed, and it has been our most successful year ever with over 30% turnover growth. A big well done to all our team and obviously a huge thank you to all our customers.

AS9100 Rev D aerospace standard achieved

ISO 14001 environmental standard completed

AS9100 Rev D & ISO 9001 audits completed and newly certified

New investments in large width laminator & large bed printer to enable us to offer larger panel etching of 800mm x 610mm

New Etching Lines installed to support production growth

Further inspection equipment purchased to aid our QA team.

New EDM wire erosion equipment purchased to support our growing production and tooling needs for this process.

Further investment in automated robotics to support production growth

New Salesforce CRM installed to support customer growth and enhance customer service offer

New Sales Engineer recruited to support growth

2 x New etching lines installed

New sales engineer recruited