As a result of the expansion of their range of machines, and provision of service contracts to their customers, as well as those who require them for other machinery, globally award-winning machinery brand MattressTek have taken on another mechanical maintenance engineer with experience of sewing machine installations and servicing.
Sam Nicholas joins the brand with knowledge and expertise gained from his time at bedding and mattress giant Silentnight Group, another proud Lancashire brand in the industry and will be working with Scott Jarvis, who joined them last year, who also has experience within the mattress and foam processing worlds, and others, building, programming and maintaining industrial sewing machines.
Technical Director of MattressTek, Shaun Peel said: “The pair are available for one-off servicing and repairs, as well as the fulfilment of service contracts for our stitching range for the mattress industry, as well as our wider range of automation conveyors and production one systems, of which there is a growing range.”
Fellow Director, Michael Birtwistle added: “With the utilisation of our existing team of expert engineers busy building the growing range that we have, from fabrication to electronics, we needed to assemble a dedicated team who could go out on the road to service the various machines are currently have at customer sites across the UK. We’re lucky to be able to call on our guys to build, test, install and repair our machines and conveyors, which often form part of larger scale production lines, across the world, particularly in the US.”
Followers of MattressTek will know of their diversification in automation solutions through the sub-brand AutomateTek that they launched earlier this year, alongside their presence at the Foam Expo and trade show which took place in Michigan a year after they secured a large contract for at least two installations located just down the road form the exhibition centre the year before.
The customer who was fulfilling a contract packing solar panels and components into crates for shipment and cargo, had been seeking a stacking and conveying solution for around six months before spotted something that could fit the bill in a video on their stand and enquired. After the crate line, they worked to build, test and ultimately install a line incorporating 4 de-stackers, a stacker and multiple conveyors, also introducing aspects of air vacuum suction before and after layers of foam were cut into shapes by water jets. These, and other case studies can be found on the MattressTek website.
Their transatlantic success doesn’t stop there, as they are in the running for the US and UK sections of the Supply Chain Excellence Awards, by Logistics Manager, as well as being awarded Automation Machinery Manufacturer of the Year and Customer Service Excellence winners of the British Made Awards.
They are also in the running for the Instrumentation Excellence Awards in the Digital Transformation category and the Insider North West International Trade Awards which they won back in 2022 and were a finalist of last year, along with their continued CSR of local teams in their home county of Lancashire.
MattressTek will also be present at The Bed Show in Telford and PPMA Show in Birmingham on Wednesday, 25th, next week.
