POLYTEC PASSION CREATES INNOVATION

STRONG MOMENTUM FOR POLYTEC UK

GROWTH IN GREAT BRITAIN

POLYTEC’s sales revenues and the number of employees in the United Kingdom are expected to more than double in the next four years. This growth was prompted by new orders from two British premium automotive manucturers, including orders for models of a new electric vehicle platform.

 

In early 2023, POLYTEC UK launched a remarkable investment programme. At the location in Telford, which was previously exclusively used as a painting plant, a new facility for the manufacture of injection-moulded parts will be built by mid-2025 and significantly increase value-added depth. POLYTEC already opened a new assembly and sequencing centre in the nearby town of Bridgnorth in mid-2023.

POLYTEC is building a new production plant covering an area of 2,600 square metres in Telford to process new orders.

Strong positioning in the premium segment

After the most recent incoming orders, the well-filled order book of the British POLYTEC branch now also includes complex bumper systems and various exterior add-on components. The latter are intended for various new electric platforms, which will be produced starting in 2025. This once again shows that POLYTEC has long played a successful role in the e-mobility market with its lightweight solutions. Work already started on part of the order in autumn 2023.

Capacity expansion

The production space of POLYTEC UK needs to be significantly expanded to satisfy the new orders. Specifically, a new production plant including machinery and equipment will be built in Telford by mid-2025. Meanwhile, an assembly and sequencing centre has already started operations in a rented production hall in Bridgnorth, a town about 20 minutes away by car. Components for one of the two customers, which are delivered from the POLYTEC plant in Telford, are currently finished here. POLYTEC is looking for additional hall space for the sequencing of the other order volumes.

Teamwork across the group

POLYTEC UK draws on expert knowledge from the entire group in the planning and implementation of this comprehensive and complex expansion project. The close interconnection within the POLYTEC GROUP massively facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experience, making it a key success factor for the project.

POLYTEC Telford will be more than a painting plant in the future. Starting at the end of 2025, sophisticated exterior add-on components will be produced for two British premium ­manufacturers along with the new assembly and sequencing activities.