Renowned for its innovative machine tool solutions, the Engineering Technology Group (ETG) has established a new business division focused on fabrication. The newly formed ‘Fabrication Division’ is designed to offer comprehensive turnkey solutions for the fabrication industry, featuring the VLB Group as a key partner.
With a commitment to addressing market challenges, the Fabrication Division will be led by Andrew Smith Hughes, a seasoned professional with over a decade of experience in delivering turnkey solutions. ETG emphasizes its approach of providing solutions rather than merely selling equipment.
The Fabrication Division will integrate various technologies, including tube bending, flatbed laser cutting, cold roll forming, and other ancillary fabrication product lines. The collaboration between ETG and the VLB Group establishes a UK and Ireland sales and support network, bringing advanced tube and plate forming technology with comprehensive service support.
Andrew Smith Hughes, as the new product manager for fabrication at ETG, will play a pivotal role in integrating the division into the overall business structure and delivering solutions to the fabrication industry. Hughes brings extensive experience in the fabrication sector, having worked at various levels, including directorship, over the past decade.
Expressing his excitement about joining ETG, Hughes notes the significant market gap for turnkey projects in the fabrication sector and sees the new ETG enterprise as an exciting opportunity to fill this gap.
As the first brand introduced under the ETG Fabrication Division, the VLB Group specializes in tube bending and cold roll forming. The VLB Group will showcase its expertise at the Southern Manufacturing show in Farnborough and MACH 2024 at the Birmingham NEC, with Andrew Smith Hughes presenting the new ETG business division and discussing the latest VLB Group product lines and solutions available to UK manufacturers.