Providing innovative solutions to a key customer is furthering the global ambitions of MAA member All Metal Services.
Following its recently awarded Spirit AeroSystems UK single source raw material supply contract, AMS have committed to opening a warehouse in Malaysia stocking fully certified aerospace grade metals to support Spirit’s manufacturing in that country by ensuring local subcontractors get the stocks they need on a just-in-time basis.
The new facility, expected to open later in 2011, will offer the supply and cutting to size of aluminium plates and bars, the billeting of steel bars, and shearing of sheet in aluminium, stainless steel and titanium grades. Subcontractors will now reap the benefits and cost reductions associated with buying raw materials locally and on a JIT basis, eliminating costly freight of smaller volumes supplied from Europe or the USA and dramatically compressing lead times.
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All Metal Services is a privately owned and managed UK based business founded in 1974. The company has 5 locations in the UK, 1 in Xi’an China and 1 in Losse France, along with a development office in Bangalore India. The Kuala Lumpur facility is the company’s 8th. The 350 employees group-wide marshal an aerospace dedicated inventory in excess of £30m. All Metal Services sells to 35 different countries, and in 2010 won the “GKN supplier of the year” award. www.allmetal.co.uk
