Manufacturing Today last spoke with Adrian Haller, Managing Director of Bruderer UK, in 2024, when he shared insight into the business\u2019 background and ongoing With the new year right around the corner,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0undoubtable that 2025 has been an extremely challenging year for global manufacturing, and the UK manufacturing industry has been no stranger to its own macroeconomic challenges. However, through its new\u00a0Center\u00a0of Excellence, Bruderer UK\u00a0remains\u00a0determined to support the future of domestic manufacturing and, with its wealth of technical\u00a0expertise, the company knows what needs to be done to secure a brighter future for the sector. As the year draws to a close, Manufacturing Today reconnects with Adrian to learn more about how the new Telford facility better positions Bruderer UK for further growth.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAround 80 percent of Bruderer UK is based in the Midlands, as this location also offers us a better technical pool of people. In addition,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0much easier for our customers to access us from any part of the UK as\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0now\u00a0centered\u00a0in the middle of the country,\u201d Adrian begins.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen we moved into our new facility, we already had nine people Midlands-based, and\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0since taken on several more personnel, both in engineering and in administration, to help us build our footprint in Telford. We pride ourselves on having a workforce with an engineering background, including our technical salespeople who are all toolmakers. In fact, our service engineers are all fully apprentice-trained electromechanical engineers, and\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0then bolstered that with extra training both in-house in Telford and in Switzerland. That program covers everything from basic engineering principles to first aid, crane, and forklift training. We bolster that at least twice a year across the team.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As Adrian emphasizes, training and people development is paramount at Bruderer UK, not merely for the company\u2019s own success but for that of the wider manufacturing industry. The larger Telford facility will allow the business to bring on, educate, and enhance its next generation and,\u00a0consequently, support the next generation of manufacturing. This focus is one of the driving forces behind Bruderer UK\u2019s ability to stay ahead of emerging and evolving markets, such as the rise of AI and data\u00a0centers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt means that our youth will be able to align practical engineering with\u00a0new technologies. Where\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0a connection or formed part, you can bet that Bruderer had something to do with it along the way, be that in the UK or elsewhere in the world.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What all of this comes down to is Bruderer UK\u2019s commitment to domestic manufacturing and its unwavering advocacy for this sector. \u201cWe\u2019ve supported UK manufacturing for 57 years now and the move from Luton to Telford was driven by this commitment,\u201d Adrian says. \u201cWhen companies manufacture parts for the\u00a0defense, automotive, construction, medical, electronics and food industries, they need to\u00a0utilize\u00a0a precision stamping machine to perform specialized processes, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0us who develop the tooling alongside our partners. Bruderer UK has the\u00a0expertise\u00a0to provide full turnkey solutions for those specific production lines, and our customers take\u00a0great pride\u00a0in investing with us, knowing that we will return a high-performing product and that there is one point of contact. The manufacturing sector is\u00a0very important\u00a0to the UK, and we wholeheartedly need more government support.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/manufacturing-today.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Bruderer-243-body-image-1.jpg\")
investments; specifically, he revealed Bruderer UK\u2019s plans to inaugurate a brand-new\u00a0Center\u00a0of Excellence to further support its technical abilities and growth. In January 2025, the company was proud to announce that it had successfully moved from its former Luton headquarters into its new facility, which is now strategically\u00a0located\u00a0right in the heart of Telford \u2013 the home of the Industrial Revolution. After supporting the UK manufacturing industry for almost six decades, Bruderer UK\u2019s new\u00a0Center\u00a0of Excellence is bespoke, purpose-built, and boasting 10,000 square meters of space to\u00a0showcase\u00a0the\u00a0very best\u00a0of the company\u2019s\u00a0state-of-the-art\u00a0equipment, technologies, and turnkey solutions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"the](\"https:\/\/manufacturing-today.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Bruderer-243-body-image-2.jpg\")
\u201cThe purpose of having this bespoke building is to allow us to bring in new blood, and I believe that\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0imperative that we take on more young people in the form of apprentices\u00a0and introduce them into the fraternity of electromechanical engineering. This is especially important in our specialism of high speed and precision stamping technologies,\u201d Adrian explains. \u201cThese young people can now come into our\u00a0Center\u00a0of Excellence and see what\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0all about, learn more about our production processes, and see how those applications are aligned with things that they use in their daily lives, such as cars,\u00a0computers\u00a0and AI. All these AI storage units, for instance, are born from engineering and have, predominantly, been\u00a0manufactured on a Bruderer press, whether\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0the connectors, hard drives, IC chips, or the actual cabinets.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n