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Sustainable
manufacturing
Dams UK manufacturing operations are made up of a wood mill and upholstery factory. We cut, edge, and finish all our MFC products, design the steelwork and upholster our own seating ranges at our state of art production facility.
The business has invested heavily
over the last 3 years in its production facilities and manufacturing machinery. We opened a new upholstery facility in 2019 at a cost of £4.5 million and have also invested over £2.5 million into new machinery, which has given us greater efficiencies and quality of product.
As our turnover increases, we benefit from economies of scale within both our distribution network and from increased purchasing power within our supply chain. We have a over £5m Finished Stock holding covering over 9,500 product lines and a national delivery network already servicing over £51m turnover of office furniture and soft seating business.
When Dams Furniture obtained ISO 9001: 2015 in August 2019 it demonstrated to our UKAS & ASI Accredited Certification Body a high degree of compliance and a committed approach to driving business improvements and product innovation using our Quality Management System.
At Dams we drive our business towards quality of manufactured product lines to ensure
Zero defects. We design and manufacture all products to the latest British and European Standards and ensure our product ranges are FIRA/SATRA tested for Safety, Strength and Durability.
• All the foam used by Dams has also passed the rigorous Crib 5 test, which refers to material or furniture that’s been tested to pass UK Fire Regulations, also known as the cigarette and match test.
• We now only use water based adhesives in our manufacturing processes, being low in VOC content, safer and more environmentally friendly
• We have also entirely eliminated the use of CFCs and HCFCs in all our manufacturing processes to protect the ozone layer.
Quality products with the environment in mind
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IN 2019 WE WERE AWARDED MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR