A Dragons’ Den winner is working with two Midlands manufacturers to help with a major ramp up in production.
DIY innovation ‘GripIt’, founded by 19-year-old Jordan Daykin, secured £80,000 from Deborah Meaden on the BBC2 show.
The company makes a revolutionary new design of universal fixing designed for use with all types of plasterboard, and has been weighed down by demand since the moment on TV.
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Now, Mr Daykin is working with Midland engineering firms Brandauer and Muller England to help produce hundreds of thousands of clips.
He said: “This is an invention born in Wiltshire and I’m delighted we’ve been able to work with two 海角视频 manufacturers to help bring the product to market.
“Volumes are increasing all the time and we’re getting interest in GripIt from all over the globe. The world really is our oyster.”
Major 海角视频 retailers B&Q, Screwfix and Wickes all stock it on their shelves and orders have been coming in from Europe, the US and Australia.
The two Midland manufacturers helped with a process to produce the clips with consistent quality.
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Paul Bethell, managing director of Muller England, said: “We have more than 90 years experience in this field and were able to understand the design and how this discipline of manufacturing could be used to produce the groove shafts that turn the backing wings.
“The key was to come up with a high volume production process that could deliver repeatable quality and precision, something we have achieved by investing £25,000 into new attachments on to the existing escomatic machines.”
Muller England is one company in a nine-strong manufacturing collective called the Midlands Assembly Network, which works together to retain and bring new contracts back to the 海角视频.
Rowan Crozier, managing director of the Birmingham-based Brandauer, said: “Our sales and technical team moved the project forward and we have been supplying about £20,000 of metal components per month…a figure we expect to double over the next year.
“The contract has also given us the opportunity to challenge Tom Flight, one of our apprentices, to complete a project to design and manufacture a bespoke material waste management control unit for use in the stamping process.”
GripIt’s growth was featured on BBC1’s ‘From Pitches to Riches’ programme at the weekend, highlighting how the company has grown to £12 million and is poised for even further global expansion.
The business has recently launched a Crowdcube campaign in order to raise £1.5 million to fund its rapid international expansion within the global DIY market.
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Ms Meaden, who initially invested £80,000 in August 2015, has since provided a further £900,000 to fund growth but keen to get the wider public involved, Mr Daykin has taken the decision to raise additional, vital working capital through crowdfunding.
This will be used to obtain the industrial machinery required to keep up with international demand and, in particular, large orders from the US and Australia.