News: Inside Industry at Garnett Dickinson

Rotherham print group, Garnett Dickinson are opening up the doors to their state-of-the-art facility in Manvers, Rotherham.

The Inside Industry event on March 16 will show how the company are waging a successful war on waste with help from the Manufacturing Advisory Service Yorkshire & Humber (MAS Y&H).

Four years ago, as part of a £20m investment, the privately owned company which has a turnover of £22m and employs 143 people, relocated from Pontefract to a state-of-the-art factory at Brookfields Park, Manvers.

MAS consultant, Dave Roberts held a series of strategic workshops with directors and trained key employees and members of the management team to develop their knowledge of "lean" improvement techniques.

The intervention has involved all of the Garnett Dickinson Print employees in the business improvement process and has led to many tangible improvements including waste being reduced annually by £368,000 and machine downtime by £1600 a week.

Inside Industry is a factory visit programme enabling manufacturers to benchmark their performance and learn best practice tools and techniques from some of the most successful businesses in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

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