Founded in the late 1990s, Crown Manufacturing has evolved into a true manufacturing success story, overcoming adversity and growing to become a business with a presence on two locations with a team of over 60 staff. Bystronic has travelled this journey with Crown Manufacturing almost since its inception. As a leading provider of high-quality sheet metal and general metal fabrication products and services, the journey for Weston-Super-Mare manufacturer started when an engineer took a passion for Italian Lambretta scooters and took it to a multi-million-pound company. The company evolved from the production of scooter components to ‘fit outs’ for the retail industry. Paul Read from Crown Manufacturing says: “We started in the late 1990s manufacturing Lambretta parts, which was a hobby and passion of our MD, Dean Harvey and evolved into a business. Now, we manufacture for the retail industry, producing all the fixtures and fittings that are going into a store. We design and produce everything that is hung on a wall and on the mid-floor. Processing sheet metal work that is flat, we have to laser cut, fold and bend it; and in some instances, parts move from folding to our welding area for fabrication work or our paint shop for finishing and subsequent assembly. Ultimately, we start with flat metal sheets and finish with a complete assembly or product.” As the Somerset manufacturer has evolved, so has the skill set and services. The company now offers everything from design engineering to tube and flatbed laser, folding and forming, fabrication & welding, painting and powder coating, joinery and panel work and more. To arrive at a point where the company can provide a complete solution without reliance on subcontract vendors, Crown Manufacturing has invested heavily in both its staff and technology. As Paul continues: “we found that being dependent on third-party suppliers wasn’t going to enable us to react in every area, to service our customers. So, over the years
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