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adds.“ Strength through co-operation is our company logo and our biggest strength is our employees.”
Key success factors
To commemorate this achievement, Darren and Richard share more key success factors behind VDL Steelweld’ s operational approach. The two begin by offering insight into how the company is remaining adaptable in the current tumultuous economic climate.
“ The world is certainly shrinking within the automotive sector. We’ re seeing significant competition from Asia, and it’ s difficult for UK companies to compete oneon-one,” Richard says.“ Because of this, we’ re currently taking advantage of lower-cost offshore resources, led and managed by local engineers. We’ re making the organization agile enough to react to changes in requirements and customer requests, while maintaining the highest quality output.
It’ s taken us a while to get the correct balance of value-added expertise with bulk engineering, but we believe that, over the last ten years, we’ ve developed the right mix to give our customers what they need both commercially and technically.”
“ In addition, we’ ve specifically developed our competencies within our own companies in these regions, rather than relying on external subcontracted work. It’ s helped us to keep our high standards of quality control internally,” Darren affirms.
Customer-focused global presence
VDL Steelweld’ s commitment to flexibility and customer partnership is embedded throughout every aspect of its business. By positioning its operations close to key customers while leveraging the expertise of its international network, the company is committed to providing consistent support wherever its customers operate.
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