Executing improvement

Posted on 10 Dec 2009 by The Manufacturer

As a member of the polymer industry, Icon Polymer Group supplies a wide range of products across a diverse application base. Tim Brown finds out from managing director, Tim Pryce, how process management improvements on all levels have ensured Icon manufacture products to an exceptionally high reliability standard for the transport, aerospace, defence, and power generation industries.

Icon Polymer was formed in 1999 with private equity funding provided by Lloyds Development Corporation. Between 1999 and 2005, it expanded through the acquisition of three existing UK rubber companies and then consolidating these facilities into two sites in Retford and Burton. In 2006, Tim Pryce, who had recently departed his role as president of…

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