BLM GROUP U.K are the UK's market leader in the supply of machines and systems for tube bending, tube endforming, laser tube cutting and production sawing.

Established in the UK over 10 years ago, BLM GROUP UK are a wholly owned subsidiary of BLM GROUP Italy whose sales turnover world wide, in 2006, reached a € 118 million. Interestingly, almost 60% of this turnover came from products launched within the last three years

UK sales increased by 32 per cent in 2006, an achievement that is all the more remarkable as sales in 2005 were a record-breaking 44 per cent up on the previous year. Paul Lake, Managing Director of BLM GROUP UK Ltd, says it is clear that UK tube fabricators really appreciate the benefits of our integrated high technology approach to the forming and machining of tube.

With UK labour rates well above those in Asia and Eastern Europe, BLM's integrated high technology approach has an obvious attraction for UK companies seeking to reduce overhead costs and shorten component lead times. This is now widely acknowledged within UK manufacturing industry to be the most effective way of securing a long-term future in the face of intense, and growing, global competition. And the positive effect on UK tube fabricators of investing in the latest BLM technology can be judged, for instance, by the 150 per cent increase in the volume of material being processed on tube lasers in the last two years.

UK customers expect a high level of reliability and a high standard of after-sales service and support. In establishing its leading U.K.market status, the strong team behind BLM GROUP UK Ltd paid (and continues to pay) close attention to its customer support activities. This is on the basis that continuing market penetration within the UK depends as much on retaining existing customers as on attracting new customers.

“We have built a solid customer base here in the UK by constantly striving to improve every aspect of our business,” says Paul Lake, “from the response to an initial enquiry through to applications advice, time studies, installation and commissioning, maintenance and on-going support. All the evidence points to the success of this strategy and we are motivated particularly by the growing number of UK customers who have placed repeat orders and who now regard BLM GROUP as their preferred supplier.”