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Europe / Stolle Machinery UK
Global Systems team are former can plant employees and managers themselves, affording the insight and experience to understand the intricacies and practical ramifications of can and end line layout and construction.“ I’ m responsible for manufacturing in Europe,” continues Richard Mercer, MD Stolle Machinery UK( SMUK),“ which covers the manufacture of several of Stolle’ s product lines across two sites in the UK and a site in Poland. Where Jamie’ s team designs the factories and installs the equipment, SMUK is responsible for manufacturing some of the equipment that operates those product lines.”
Stolle Machinery UK facilitates the design and manufacture of a wide range of thermal products including Optimus washers and dryers, DecoCure pin ovens and InterCure internal bake ovens. It also builds the Stolle E-NCKR modular
die necking system, as well as coolant filtration systems configured to fit any body maker module.
All this experience combines to create a powerful partner for companies in emerging markets, that are looking for can making solutions.“ South Africa has been quite a hotspot for us over the last few years,” Jamie shares.“ We first did a project there in 2019, and since then, have consistently completed projects, one after the other, for two prominent clients. One of the customers owns beverage brands and the other is a packaging company that wanted to get into can making and has since grown beyond expectations. Its capacity was about one billion cans a year and is now up to three billion cans a year. It’ s a similar story for the brand owner; the initial expectation was a capacity no greater than 800 million cans a year, but we’ re currently expanding that line to
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