Harold Smith manufactures wire and strands at Trafalgar Colliery. Fine stainless steel wire was produced here to be used as heating elements for airmen’s flying suits in WWI.
More about Temco
Established in the UK since 1906, TEMCO Wire Products Ltd is one of the World’s leading specialists of highly advanced copper and alloy based products – our name is recognised globally with a reputation for high quality and innovation leadership in our markets.
Thinking about the characteristics of Temco that have contributed to its ongoing success, “We have had strong success through brand definition in the early years of the company, with TEMCO becoming the brand of quality.
Temco Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide high quality wire products to our customers in the Aerospace, Space, Automotive, Transportation, Industrial & Healthcare sector. Specialising in medium to low volume tailor-made orders.
Care
Recognising the needs of others and considering them in our actions.
Respect
Treating each other as equals in an open inclusive manner.
Responsibility
Acceptance, standing up for one’s actions and being accountable for them.
Collaboration
Working for a common cause based on trust and diversity of opinion.
Our Teams
Find out more about who we are and what we do
World-class Sales & Customer Service is commonly defined as the ability to meet or exceed a customer's expectations. As technology expedites the growth of new service and support channels, customer expectations are also changing. But by regularly exceeding expectations, we can boost customer satisfaction and retention.
Whether your focus is sales or support, a happy customer is our ultimate goal.
Developing partnership with our Customers, solutions which are both effective and economically advantageous. Close links throughout the organisation - both inter-departmentally at Temco, and throughout the aerumtec group https://aerumtec.com/about-us/ - ensure we are all working for common targets.
Kaizen (改善) is the Japanese word for "improvement". Kaizen refers to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees.
At Temco the central premise of the Kaizen Production System is our operations performance this is a direct result of detailed technical knowledge and performance discipline born from daily routine and review, This ensures each employees' personal knowledge, experience and commitment to our targets and objectives have common alignment and ultimately lead to our success.
Our Living Kaizen & Shop floor management system incorporates:
• Visual Management
• Dashboards for productivity benefits & standardisation
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Operating efficiency improvements
• Employee engagement
• Employee empowerment
The system is part of our daily life at Temco through analysis, audit, communication and actions:-
Inhouse Processes Including:-
• Electroplating Silver & Nickel up to 27%.
• Single WIre Drawing.
• Multiwire Drawing.
• Double Twist Stranding.
• Tube Annealing.
• Rewinding - Including multiwire bobbins.
Internal Supervisory courses & GET for Engineering Apprenticeship Training
The History of Temco
New factory at Stowfield, alongside Lydbrook Junction station. The Lydbrook, Cable Works, erected in 1912 by the same Harold J Smith. In WW1 the Works produced 70,000 miles of cable for field communication. WW1 Employed 650 people making cable for field telephones, it possessed a machine for making lead alloy tube needed for PLUTO (Petroleum Lines UnderThe Ocean), which allowed fuel to be supplied to the Allied invasion force on the Continent from Britain. Mr Smith seeking to promote the welfare of others a generous and benevolent employer who in September 1918 built a spacious dining hall, cloak rooms and bathrooms and lavatories.
Smith leaves the Cable Works due to financial difficulties in post-war slump. Subsequent take-over by Edison Swan Electric Company (1925)
Smith founds Temco below Offa’s Dyke making fine stainless steel and nickel-chrome wire.
1947 Incorporation under Companies Act 1929.
1950 Introduced electroplating of silver and nickel onto copper wire.
1956 Acquired by BICC – one of the world’s largest cable makers.
First producer of nickel plated copper wire drawn through diamond dies.
1985 Relocation to present site at Cinderford.
1986 First wire manufacturer in Europe to use double-twist bunching for the manufacture of Nickel plated copper true concentric and unilay strands.
1987 First European wire producer to achieve ISO 9002 certification.
1991 Queen’s Award for export
1996 Acquisition by Leonische Drahtwerke AG
2001 ISO 14001 achieved
2007 Installation of Europe’s only 27% nickel-plating line.
2010 Installation of state of the art multi-wire drawing and stranding technology.
2015 LEONI IM integration
2016 New ERP System (Navision 2016), new 16 end Multi-wire machine upgrade from 2010
Acquisition by Deutsche Invest Mittelstand GmbH, Carve out from LEONI AG after 27 years, TEMCO Wire Products Ltd our new name