WITTMANN Group

The company, founded in 1973, has like many within this industry endured a difficult last few years. MD Andrew Penn says that 'we lost our main customer in 2009 when production was unexpectedly moved to Poland at very short notice. This obviously had a massive impact on our investment and expansion plans and the new machinery we had scheduled to br... ing in had to be put on hold. However, we experienced very strong growth in the second half of 2011 and took on a number of new customers which impacted on our production capacity and lead times. In order for us to remain flexible and responsive to our customer needs we decided that investing in a new machine was our only real option. Once we had made this decision, the choice of Wittman Battenfeld was the obvious one to make. We have been a Battenfled customer for over 25 years and have always felt confident in the level of service and expertise they offer. We were fortunate to be invited to the Battenfeld Competence and Open House Event in Kottingbrunn Austria in 2010 and we were really impressed with the developments and technological advancements the company had made. Despite the continuing doom and gloom messages we see in the mainstream media about the economy we've had a strong start to 2012 and are hopeful that 2012 will see us continue to expand.Read More