Surrey's Amazon Filters celebrates 100,000 production milestone

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Giles Gwinnett

Some of the 100,000 stainless steel housings fabricated and shipped to customers in process industries around the world by Amazon Filters from its manufacturing centre in Camberley - picture contributed

A Surrey-based filter manufacturer, founded in 1985, is celebrating after making and shipping its 100,000th stainless steel cartridge housing as the company has boosted production capacity thanks to an ongoing £1 million investment programme.

Neil Pizzey, the managing director at Amazon Filters, said: "Completing our 100,000th unit is a significant milestone for us and one that our whole team can be proud of.

"We have specifically focused on strengthening our capacity for housing component manufacturing as a key part of our investment strategy.

"Last year we introduced two semi-automated CNC mills to enable us to do more fabrication in-house and rely less on third parties or sub-contractors," he added.

"Greater in-house capacity supports our ‘quick and able’ methodology centred on fast, accurate turnround of customer orders, including complex and bespoke projects, whatever their size and wherever they originate in the world."

As well as buying new equipment, the company has more than doubled the number of staff working on housing component manufacture from six operatives four years ago to now 13.

The team works in a dedicated production hub at the firm's Camberley factory processing raw, hardcore metal bars, blocks, sheets and tubes into parts ready for welding and final assembly.

Separate to its metal fabricated housings and not included in the 100,000 figure, Amazon Filters also produces and supplies a range of injection moulded plastic cartridge housings.

Amazon Filters Ltd is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of filter cartridges and housings.

It supplies companies of all sizes with housing and filtration systems, including bespoke solutions to individual needs.

The firm's products support critical liquid and gas applications in industries such as oil and gas, automotive, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, chemicals and coatings, water treatment and building services.

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Giles Gwinnett

Giles Gwinnett is a writer at The Business Magazine. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and covered a vast array of topics at a range of media settings - in print and online. After his NCTJ newspaper training, he became a reporter in Hampshire before moving to a news agency in Gloucestershire. In recent years, he has been covering the financial markets along with company news for an investor-focused web portal. His many interests include politics, energy and the environment. He lives in Dorset.