Hardware manufacturer J.Banks & Co Ltd has announced the relocation and centralisation of the group’s head office and manufacturing divisions, now all under one roof in a new 40,000 sq ft site at Vernon Park, Featherstone, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
With a long history in lock manufacturing spanning more than 160 years, the family-owned business of J.Banks Ltd has recently amalgamated with the precision-turned parts company J.Wellman Ltd, enabling the group to provide an even more comprehensive range of engineering and manufacturing services.
Successful growth in sales throughout Europe for the group’s range of quality door and window hardware products – which includes its highly specified Res-Lok window restrictors, locking devices, door furniture, hinges, architectural products and bespoke bi-fold door hardware – has led to the expansion move which enables the group to increase substantially its manufacturing capacity.
The new, purpose-designed complex includes state of the art design and development facilities, including rapid prototyping, zinc pressure diecasting, precision turned parts, multi-axis machining centres, press works, assembly, warehousing and distribution. In the coming months the group plans to incorporate its extensive plastic injection moulding division within the new central manufacturing hub.