Strong demand brings expansion at Marco weighing

A major expansion in manufacturing facilities at Sussex based Marco Weighing is geared up to meet accelerating demand for their range of stainless steel ProRange workstations, both for UK and export

Until recently, Marco have employed outside sub contractors for the majority of their fabrication work with only final assembly and test taking place in-house.

Now following a six-figure investment program, Marco can manufacture all their equipment under one roof.

Major investment in new equipment includes a 50 tonne brake press, high precision 8 mm guillotine and the latest in specialist welding stations together with cutting, drilling and finishing machines.

Marco Production Manager, Graham Warren, is very upbeat about the future.

"Despite many stories of doom and gloom in UK manufacturing, we are seeing increasing demand for our weighing equipment across a wide range of industries.

Although there was no issue with the quality of work from our subcontractors, we knew we didn't have the necessary control, a situation becoming more apparent as the popularity of 'ProRange' grew.

Bringing the manufacturing in-house gives us tremendous flexibility and significantly enhances our ability to develop new and innovative products.

We can now react rapidly to customer specific requirements and we are confident that this investment in people and equipment will give added confidence in our overall capabilities.

Based around standard concept modules, 'ProRange' includes recipe formulation 'DataMaster' workstations and 'LineMaster' portion control scales.

Each solution is custom designed to meet individual customer operational demands.

The main considerations are ease of operator use, weighing performance, hygiene and reliability.

The ProRange concept is widely used in the Food, Beverage, Cosmetic, Pharmaceutical and Flavouring industries.

DataMaster are PC based workstations, which have been designed specifically to meet the diverse needs of today's processing industries.

They satisfy the demands being placed on companies for greater traceability and accountability for their products.

This hardware concept has evolved to support the powerful Marco TRAC-IT software suite, which fully encompasses all facets of factory data capture.

Based on industry standard operating platforms, it can be readily configured to integrate seamlessly with many in-house business systems.

As Warren explains: "Unlike many of our competitors, we provide complete weighing solutions where the workstations are far more than just scales.

Consideration is given to the ergonomics of working height, functionality, ease of cleaning and system integration.

Depending on the application, we can incorporate work platforms, drawers and cupboards within the workstations.

Wireless networking and RF bar code scanners eradicate fragile trailing leads that can be easily damaged and cause system failures.

We also specialise in fully mobile workstations which can be easily moved to where they are needed".

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