Clearview North December 2013 - Issue 145 | Page 34

ALUMINIUM

THE COMPLETE ALUMINIUM
FABRICATION SERVICE
The fabrication arm of EAG, Multi
Fab Ltd, has a hard earned and wellestablished reputation across the UK for
the fabrication of architectural aluminium
systems providing the highest level of
expertise, quality and reliability to its ever
expanding customer base. The business has
provided a complete fabrication service to
the construction industry for aluminium
window, door and curtain walling for
the past 25 years and, with its new and
significant £500,000 CNC machining centre
investment, hopes to continue this on for
another 25 years or more.
The business has 67 full time fabricators
across two factories, one factory in Mildenhall
Suffolk and the other in Attleborough
Norfolk. The business is well geared for high
volume fabrication, which attracts many
main contractors for their large scale building
projects. In addition to the aluminium
window, door and curtain walling fabrication,
Multi Fab also provides sheet metalwork
manufacturing, producing many of the
powder-coated and anodised panels that can
be seen on building façades across the country
and particularly in London.

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The company has recently been employed
by Mount Anvil as specialist subcontractor
to provide feature cladding and associated
elements to the building’s façade as part of a
new build residential/commercial project on
Union Street, London. The scheme, spread
across three buildings, focuses on providing
85 new homes with an additional 279sqm of
commercial space.

‘Whether a customer
requires just 1 window unit
or 1000 units we can help’
Charlie Dyce, Business Development
Director of EAG, said “We have built a strong
working relationship with MA and their
architect over a lengthy period in developing
this scheme and are delighted to be able
to bring it to fruition, the quirky MGM
design will make this a landmark building in
Southwalk, and another we are pleased to add
to our portfolio”.
Work has already commenced on site and is
expected to be completed early in 2014.
Way back in 1998, Mildenhall based façade
contractor EAG was the first fabricator in
the UK to invest in a combined routing and
sawing CNC machining centre from specialist
Italian CNC machine tool manufacturer
Emmegi.
This investment helped propel EAG to
one of the most capable facades contractors
in the UK enhancing component accuracy
and doubling production capacity. EAG’s
fabrication arm, Multi Fab Ltd, has just
commissioned this latest investment from
Emmegi, in a state-of-the-art Quadra L1
machining centre. This machine has the
most up-to-date in cutting edge technology,
providing enhancing component fabrication
and individual part quality of the highest
standard.
EAG’s Pre-Construction Director Edward
Whipp said, “In a time when the UK façade
industry has taken a real bashing with many
of the major players going out of business, it
is exactly the right time for the group to be
making this major investment. As in the rest
of the economy, we are seeing activity pick
up and the increased quality and capacity
this new machining centre will deliver will

position us perfectly to take advantage of these
increased opportunities. The new Quadra will
accelerate in house production and benefit our
client service”.
Multi Fab’s Nigel Woodhouse added,
“Our new investment shows our ongoing
commitment to the construction industry to
provide good quality products at a competitive
price. We are also saying we are open for
business and here for the long term, so
whether a customer requires just 1 window
unit or 1000 units we can help.”
Multi Fab is also finding that its supply
only service for aluminium bi-folding doors
is proving very popular with builders and
installers alike. “Manufacturing good quality
aluminium units is much more specialised
than with other materials,” says Nigel. “We
have expanded this side of our production
business and now have some staff dedicated to
making just bi-fold doors.”

The new CNC machine means new
efficiencies with faster lead times for
specialised products. The company has
ambitious expansion plans and owns
additional land at the Attleborough location to
be able to build another factory.
It launched its renewable energy division,
‘Eagle New Energy’, from the site in 2010,
which continues to grow by providing
specialised Solar PV and other renewable
energy solutions to commercial building
projects.
Multi Fab Ltd is multifaceted. Why not
give them a call for your building façade
requirements. Telephone [phone].

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