https://www.temperhs.com/article articles en-us Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:57:54 GMT 2026-04-29T11:57:54Z en-us https://www.temperhs.com/article/industrialised-construction-component-specialist-cuts-production-time-from-30-minutes-to-40-seconds <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://www.temperhs.com/article/industrialised-construction-component-specialist-cuts-production-time-from-30-minutes-to-40-seconds" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://cp-catapult.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27-10.14.30_-1024x768.jpg" alt="Industrialised construction: component specialist cuts production time from 30 minutes to 40 seconds" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p style="line-height: 1.5;">“If we don’t automate, we’ll lose out to China,” says Sam Carver, the Managing Director of industrial parts manufacturer Magrenko, which is introducing new processes to speed the production of a specialist component used in ground engineering.<br><br>Earlier this year, Magrenko took part in the<a href="https://cp.catapult.org.uk/project/clean-futures/" style="text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.05rem; color: #2e2d2b;">Clean Futures</a>accelerator, delivered by Connected Places Catapult, to streamline the production of collet joints.<br><br>These metal parts are used to connect together two sections of precast concrete foundation pile that support a range of new developments; from houses built on soft ground to large buildings including hospitals and prisons.<br><br>The Wolverhampton-based company used £50,000 funding from the Clean Futures programme to invest in an automated manufacturing process and robotic equipment to speed up manufacturing and reduce costs by a third.<br><br>Its new production line is set to go live in May, and will allow operations to continue throughout the night without human supervision during peaks in customer demand.</p> <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://www.temperhs.com/article/industrialised-construction-component-specialist-cuts-production-time-from-30-minutes-to-40-seconds" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://cp-catapult.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-27-10.14.30_-1024x768.jpg" alt="Industrialised construction: component specialist cuts production time from 30 minutes to 40 seconds" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p style="line-height: 1.5;">“If we don’t automate, we’ll lose out to China,” says Sam Carver, the Managing Director of industrial parts manufacturer Magrenko, which is introducing new processes to speed the production of a specialist component used in ground engineering.<br><br>Earlier this year, Magrenko took part in the<a href="https://cp.catapult.org.uk/project/clean-futures/" style="text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 0.05rem; color: #2e2d2b;">Clean Futures</a>accelerator, delivered by Connected Places Catapult, to streamline the production of collet joints.<br><br>These metal parts are used to connect together two sections of precast concrete foundation pile that support a range of new developments; from houses built on soft ground to large buildings including hospitals and prisons.<br><br>The Wolverhampton-based company used £50,000 funding from the Clean Futures programme to invest in an automated manufacturing process and robotic equipment to speed up manufacturing and reduce costs by a third.<br><br>Its new production line is set to go live in May, and will allow operations to continue throughout the night without human supervision during peaks in customer demand.</p> <img src="https://track-eu1.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=148334151&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.temperhs.com%2Farticle%2Findustrialised-construction-component-specialist-cuts-production-time-from-30-minutes-to-40-seconds&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.temperhs.com%252Farticle&amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "> Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:57:38 GMT https://www.temperhs.com/article/industrialised-construction-component-specialist-cuts-production-time-from-30-minutes-to-40-seconds 2026-04-29T11:57:38Z Adam