Avon TSA has made the largest single machinery investment since the company’s founding in 1977, commissioning a 300-tonne cutting and sealing press and a 100-tonne belt press to support growing demand for automotive NVH components.
The new equipment is used in the production of NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) products manufactured from 3M Thinsulate™ and other specialist non-woven fabrics – materials that require precision cutting and sealing to exact tolerances. The 300-tonne press features a 1,600mm square cutting head, enabling full material width utilisation and multi-impression tooling. Together, the two machines deliver a 30% reduction in process time and a 10% reduction in material usage.
Investment on our own terms
The new equipment is part of a broader pattern of investment at Avon TSA. Over recent years, the business has committed millions to its plant, people and machinery -decisions shaped by a single priority: building the resilience, capability and capacity that customers depend on.
Being a private company, those decisions are made on our own terms, without external pressures or short-term targets to satisfy. This makes the company more responsive to customer need.
Kaizen and the long game
Capital investment sits alongside Avon TSA’s ongoing commitment to Kaizen – the discipline of incremental improvement on the shop floor that compounds over time into genuine operational strength.
That commitment is grounded in experience. Avon TSA has worked with Japanese manufacturers like Panasonic, Honda and Nissan over the last 30 years, and the influence runs deep: Lean manufacturing principles aren’t a framework bolted on from outside, they’re embedded in how the business operates day to day. The result is an organisation that pairs long-term capital investment with the kind of continuous, incremental improvement that Japanese industry pioneered.
