Avocet Steel Strip Ltd founded in 1996 began life  as a supplier of precision metals focused entirely on cold rolled steel strip. At that time the UK market was large and  thriving with several UK based quality producers providing lively competition for Avocet's...

Avocet Steel strip ltd was established in 1996, it was a product of the industrial turmoil of the late 1980s as the demand for steel and metals contracted in line with the offshoring of manufactured products. As customers closed or contracted steel and metals...

The manufacturing sector in the UK economy today accounts for 12% of the national output falling from a peak of 46% in 1948. However it is still worth £400 billion pa (ONS ,2019). The focus shift in this Post-War period has been from a UK manufacturing sector...

Avocet Steel are making the transition from a Trading and Service company to becoming a manufacturer. This is an undertaking like marriage – not to be taken lightly. It's easy to say but very daunting to do. So why do it? It's not often that an opportunity...

October 1996 was a very different world from what we have today, 25 years later. Mobile phones were much simpler and were not a common item back then either personally or in business. They were purely  phones, no email , no internet, no cameras. Neither Google...

September 2021 has seen the prices of petrol and diesel reach new highs with further increases to come as these pump prices do not as yet  take into account the record oil price of $80 per barrel. This compounded by long queues at the pumps as service stations run...

Oh No! A Fragility Foretold,lean both ways. Most people today working in manufacturing industry, retail or distribution take lean manufacturing and the "just in time" system of stock control and material supply for granted.As far as they are aware its always been...

Thursday 22 April 2021 Jaguar Land Rover announced a shut down in production at Halewood and Castle Bromwich plants due to a shortage  of parts. JLR is owned by TATA group and is the UKs largest automotive manufacturer. The 2 plants affected employ 6000 workers...

We are about to take a massive step towards a greener world and a safer world. To date emissions from vehicles, petrol and diesel internal combustion engines accounts for 28% of all Co2 emissions. The environmental consequences in global warming and poor air...

On the 13th August 1913 a Sheffield man Harry Brearley created a steel with 12.8% chromium and 0.24% carbon an invention now widely recognised as the first ever stainless steel. There were a number of other inventions of similar metals in France and Germany around...