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Upholstery Factory Production Week 8

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Week three of February saw a peak for the year so far in terms of product output topping 2000 for the first time this year but a continued great OTIF performance in our Upholstery Factory . We shipped to 8 different customers this week.

Products Shipped – 2031

Number of different product types shipped – 112

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 7

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Week two of February saw another good week from the factory and a great OTIF performance in our Upholstery Production shipped to 11 different customers this week.

Products Shipped – 1946

Number of different product types shipped – 57

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 6

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Upholstery Production

Week one of February saw another good week from the factory and a great OTIF performance in our Upholstery Production

Products Shipped – 1853

Number of different product types shipped – 50

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process s designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Weeks 1-5

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In our new series, we will start to report on our factory performance each week, including our output volume and our On Time In Full Performance. To catch us up to date, this is our Upholstery Production performance  for January (weeks 1-5). Obviously Week 1 of January was a very short week, containing only 1 and 1/2 days (as our factory closes for maintenance and cleaning on Friday afternoons.)

Total products shipped – 9576

Number of different product types shipped – 113

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process s designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

 

Recycling with Art at Architect at Work

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At first glance this exhibition in trendy Shoreditch only seemed home to high-end suppliers promoting their premium products, however, surprisingly there was a multi-coloured gem amongst the sea of white marble tiles – we weren’t expecting recycling to inspire us as much as it did, especially here!

‘A large part of the world’s population is wearing flip flops. This footwear is cheap to buy, but not durable to use. Together with an undeveloped waste disposal system, this causes flip flops in developing countries to end up in nature and eventually in the oceans. Passionate about the oceans and aware of the importance of ecosystems, the Kenyan Ocean Sole tackles this problem. The washed-up flip flops are collected, cleaned and glued. The creative team of craftsmen then process the flip flops into colourful animals. Three local and global problems are tackled: prevention and control of pollution of land and sea by the plastics, job creation and limited logging for wood art works’ – www.architect-at-work.co.uk

The environment has become a significant issue in modern day manufacturing, and one that’s extremely important to us individually and as a company, which is why our Sustainability Ethos is so important to us.. Although we’re not collecting flip flops from Bournemouth beach and creating multi-coloured furniture, we are passionate about doing our bit and share Ocean Sole’s environmental concerns. In most industries plastic is a frequently used material, but in particular manufacturing. We aim to change this in our factories and lead by example. For us, one of the main culprits for single-use plastic were the bags used to protect our fabrics whilst in transit. This would range from delivery, returns or simply transferring material from one site to the other.

We decided to take action and create our own internal and external bags from left over fabrics. Here we tackle two issues, firstly, eliminating the plastic packaging for our fabric rolls and secondly, reducing our waste by recycling left over fabrics. Like Ocean Sole we are constantly searching for innovative ways to reuse materials in order to create something new, something sustainable and something to support the planet. 

We are only one company, but one that has joined the fight against plastic, and are standing shoulder to shoulder alongside Ocean Sole.

Written by Georgia Winhall – Designer

https://www.architect-at-work.co.uk/

https://www.oceansole.co.uk/

Sustainability in Business is More Than Trees, Animals and Waste

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Many companies claim to be Sustainable or have an Environmental policy, but sustainability in business often falls short of the things that make less headlines and fall closer to home. Our sustainability ethos includes care for our employees too.

The common themes for being sustainable involve reduction in single use plastics, using sustainable materials and by the more forward looking companies, by achieving circular product design.

However, the Cradle to Cradle certification as an example, has one important factor that business must take note of in their products (FSC certification also includes a similar clause). The fifth category in the C2C certification is Social Fairness – defined as

The aim of this category is to design business operations that honor all people and natural systems affected by the manufacture of a product.

“All People” includes our own team. At Global Upholstery Solutions, not only does this mean we have CSR and Modern Slavery policies, but we take the Mental Health of our employees very seriously.

Four of our Leadership Team this week joined the others in our business who had completed the MHFA England one day course to become MHFA Champions which gives them an understanding of common mental health issues and the skills to signpost people to support.

Of our overall team of 70 staff, we now have the following Mental Health First Aid Champions:

Lia Branco – Head of Design

Martin Brown – Upholstery Development

Richard Holt – Manufacturing Group Leader

Paul Holloway – Despatch Team Leader

Lee Ness – General Manager

Andy Vale – Manufacturing Manager

Lindsay Watson-Jones – Materials Manager

Phil Wheeler – Operations Manager

Andrea Westley – Manufacturing Group Leader

We have others scheduled to complete the course and feedback from all has been excellent. All feel they now understand mental health issues better, can recognise potential mental health issues earlier and have the tools they need to help and support our team members that might have mental health issues. Our next step is for a proportion of the team that has completed the Champion course to now complete the full First Aid course.

At Global Upholstery Solutions, Sustainability in Business means that the health, physical and mental, of our team is just as important to us as our social responsibility to the rest of the planet. We would recommend the MHFA training to all businesses.

You can arrange Mental Health First Aid for your representatives at Mental Health First Aid England here.