An Argyll-based manufacturing agency is focusing on 20 per cent year-on-year progress within the world awards sector after investing almost half one million kilos in new manufacturing expertise.
Midton, headquartered in Lochgilphead, has put in a biomass-powered autoclave as a part of a £429,000 improve designed to extend output and enhance effectivity at its foundry. The transfer strengthens its place as considered one of Europe’s main producers of forged acrylic merchandise and considered one of solely a handful of specialist acrylic foundries worldwide.
The brand new autoclave considerably will increase the size, pace and complexity of castings the corporate can undertake, permitting it to satisfy rising demand from the worldwide occasions and awards trade.
Midton works with a high-profile shopper base together with Royal Tv Society, Common Music Group, Irish Recorded Music Affiliation and Homosexual Instances. Its merchandise are used for a spread of status awards and commemorative items.
A key pillar of Midton’s progress technique is sustainability. The corporate has developed “Remade”, a recycled acrylic vary produced from reclaimed offcuts. The fabric reduces reliance on virgin plastics whereas sustaining optical readability and design flexibility.
The agency says the sustainable providing has resonated strongly with environmentally aware purchasers and award recipients alike.
Administrators Graham Ramsay and Craig Cameron mentioned the funding marked a turning level. “The brand new massive autoclave is a recreation changer within the scale and high quality of casting work we will undertake,” they mentioned. “Sustainable manufacturing is not only a accountability however a possibility, and Remade permits us to supply a particular, circular-economy resolution.”
Past manufacturing, Midton gives end-to-end design help, enabling bespoke colors, embedded objects and specialist casting results. Further providers embody customized packaging, repeat order consistency and hybrid digital-physical awards incorporating QR codes.
The foundry traces its roots again to 1982, initially based as Midton Crafts in Paisley earlier than relocating to Argyll and transitioning into acrylic casting. Over 4 many years, it has expanded from giftware into company commissions, barware for breweries and monetary “tombstones” for the banking sector.
Funding in 3D design, laser reducing, UV printing and superior ending methods has broadened its capabilities into timber, metals and recycled supplies.
With rising world demand for premium, sustainably produced awards, Midton believes its mix of high-tech manufacturing, in-house craftsmanship and environmental innovation positions it for accelerated enlargement within the worldwide occasions market.
