Against the backdrop of a dramatic decline in UK manufacturing over recent years, one Midlands-based business is bucking the trend. Experts in engineered bespoke mechanical solutions for industrial and food manufacturing processes, KF Alliance Engineering (KFA) has embarked on an ambitious programme of reinvestment to ensure it stays at the forefront of innovation.
From its central location in Worcestershire this dynamic family-owned business boasts an impressive client portfolio including Alpha-Rowan Heat Treatment, Anachrome Group, Avdel Ltd, McVities, Robert McBride, Trebor, BAE Systems and Mondelez International.
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Established more than 45 years ago, KF Alliance Engineering continues channeling its resources into the business for which it has a well-deserved reputation in designing the optimum bespoke solution for each customer’s specific application. Original feeding, conveying, elevating, lifting, tipping and weighing equipment is carefully devised for a diverse range of automated and semi-automated processes to address particular manufacturing issues.
In light of relentless competition from emerging markets including China and India in the manufacture of high volume products, the UK must harness effectively its own particular strengths, in particular a well-established reputation for innovation and undeniable superiority when it comes to skills and knowledge base. Investing more in R&D and advanced processes will see a return in higher demand for its consistent quality in products and services.
“KFA has grown with the technological developments in our industry and gone from strength to strength,” explains managing director Ivan Kieff. “We believe our achievements have come from our dedication to quality machinery that gets the job done; meeting the needs of our clients has always been our top priority, enabling us to deliver automated process machines that save businesses both time and money.
“Our expert engineers have always kept up with the latest technology and are fully trained in bespoke design and engineering disciplines. This means that they have a thorough understanding of how to produce top quality material handling machines that are both innovative and competitive in price.”
One of the great benefits from dealing with KFA is that they have the expertise to identify the key requirements for any handling or feed system. They are accustomed to being presented with a problem, sometimes by companies who have attempted unsuccessfully to solve it themselves and finding a reliable solution which provides both direct and indirect economic advantages.
One of the defining proofs of a world class solution is when customers come back for more, recognising they have found a partner whose aim is to help them meet their own output requirements in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible.
Users of the equipment designed and manufactured by KFA have one thing in common whether they are involved in food manufacturing, metals processing, component or product handling – they all demand the highest quality and maximum level of support. Customers have the confidence in the ability and dedication of KFA’s engineers in understanding their particular handling or feed problems and using their experience and expertise to come up with the optimum result.
Emphasising the effective return obtained from investment in KFA equipment are typical comments from customers: “productivity gains are restricted by process time, still a 20% increase has been achieved”; and the KFA loaders have “eliminated manual handling from the process and given a reduction in labour required to run the plant, allowing extra equipment to be run by the same operator.”
In line with its bold investment programme and a clear reflection of its plans for the future, KF Alliance Engineering has undergone a complete rebrand of the business with new logo and website redesigned to simplify even further the process of sourcing the best vibratory solution in terms of application, quality, productivity, energy-saving and price – and to cap it all – made in Britain.
