Klarius to invest £1.5M from 2016

Funds will increase production capacity, improve quality and make more new parts available faster

Klarius to invest £1.5M from 2016
Klarius offers over 11,000 parts in the portfolio including; exhausts, catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters and mountings.

The UK’s largest manufacturer of exhausts, CATs and DPFs for the aftermarket has announced a £1.5m project investment for 2016 following strong sales and a restructuring of company finances.

The company is currently building a new technology centre that will house design, R&D and technical support departments, including a test cell with rolling road.

Paul Hannah, business development director, said: “This will provide more space for designers and engineers, allowing us to accelerate the time-to-market for new products as well as increasing the number of new products we release on a weekly basis.”

Exhaust production

The largest investment is in machines, with one of two huge robotised Vector Pipe Line (VPL) tube manufacturing and bending machines being completely rebuilt.

Each one takes aluminised steel sheet from a roll, folds it and welds it in a continuous process to make high quality, corrosion resistant tube for exhausts.

It then bends sections and cuts them into precise forms for batches of new exhausts bound for the production lines.

Other substantial investment includes new wire bending machines, sound deadening glass fibre injectors, wire benders for mounting hooks and spigots and automatic tube saws.

The investment will also fund office refurbishment and will help Klarius to grow its fleet of delivery vans.

IMI Accreditation

The news comes as Klarius announces a new nationwide IMI Accredited emission control training programme for garage technicians.

The new offices and training programme have been assessed and certified as an official training centre by the IMI.

Klarius Products has also invested heavily in type-approval testing for a large range of new CATs and DPFs which are soon to hit the market, making Klarius the largest stockist and supplier of emission control devices in Europe.

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