Recently launching its new Center of Excellence, Bruderer UK is supporting the future of UK manufacturing
‘One name, a multitude of opportunities’ – the slogan of leading punching technology solutions provider, Bruderer. Founded in 1943, Bruderer has positioned itself right at the center of the global manufacturing industry as a core partner of choice for advanced press line and precision tooling solutions. As a part of the wider Bruderer Group, Bruderer UK – established in 1968 – has become synonymous with exceptional quality, client centricity, and unmatched innovation. Its turnkey solutions have revolutionized the production processes of manufacturers across the globe.
Manufacturing Today last spoke with Adrian Haller, Managing Director of Bruderer UK, in 2024, when he shared insight into the business’ background and ongoing
investments; specifically, he revealed Bruderer UK’s plans to inaugurate a brand-new Center of Excellence to further support its technical abilities and growth. In January 2025, the company was proud to announce that it had successfully moved from its former Luton headquarters into its new facility, which is now strategically located right in the heart of Telford – the home of the Industrial Revolution. After supporting the UK manufacturing industry for almost six decades, Bruderer UK’s new Center of Excellence is bespoke, purpose-built, and boasting 10,000 square meters of space to showcase the very best of the company’s state-of-the-art equipment, technologies, and turnkey solutions.
With the new year right around the corner, it’s undoubtable that 2025 has been an extremely challenging year for global manufacturing, and the UK manufacturing industry has been no stranger to its own macroeconomic challenges. However, through its new Center of Excellence, Bruderer UK remains determined to support the future of domestic manufacturing and, with its wealth of technical expertise, the company knows what needs to be done to secure a brighter future for the sector. As the year draws to a close, Manufacturing Today reconnects with Adrian to learn more about how the new Telford facility better positions Bruderer UK for further growth.
“Around 80 percent of Bruderer UK is based in the Midlands, as this location also offers us a better technical pool of people. In addition, it’s much easier for our customers to access us from any part of the UK as we’re now centered in the middle of the country,” Adrian begins.
“When we moved into our new facility, we already had nine people Midlands-based, and we’ve since taken on several more personnel, both in engineering and in administration, to help us build our footprint in Telford. We pride ourselves on having a workforce with an engineering background, including our technical salespeople who are all toolmakers. In fact, our service engineers are all fully apprentice-trained electromechanical engineers, and we’ve then bolstered that with extra training both in-house in Telford and in Switzerland. That program covers everything from basic engineering principles to first aid, crane, and forklift training. We bolster that at least twice a year across the team.”
As Adrian emphasizes, training and people development is paramount at Bruderer UK, not merely for the company’s own success but for that of the wider manufacturing industry. The larger Telford facility will allow the business to bring on, educate, and enhance its next generation and, consequently, support the next generation of manufacturing. This focus is one of the driving forces behind Bruderer UK’s ability to stay ahead of emerging and evolving markets, such as the rise of AI and data centers.
“The purpose of having this bespoke building is to allow us to bring in new blood, and I believe that it’s imperative that we take on more young people in the form of apprentices and introduce them into the fraternity of electromechanical engineering. This is especially important in our specialism of high speed and precision stamping technologies,” Adrian explains. “These young people can now come into our Center of Excellence and see what we’re all about, learn more about our production processes, and see how those applications are aligned with things that they use in their daily lives, such as cars, computers and AI. All these AI storage units, for instance, are born from engineering and have, predominantly, been manufactured on a Bruderer press, whether it’s the connectors, hard drives, IC chips, or the actual cabinets.
“It means that our youth will be able to align practical engineering with new technologies. Where there’s a connection or formed part, you can bet that Bruderer had something to do with it along the way, be that in the UK or elsewhere in the world.”
What all of this comes down to is Bruderer UK’s commitment to domestic manufacturing and its unwavering advocacy for this sector. “We’ve supported UK manufacturing for 57 years now and the move from Luton to Telford was driven by this commitment,” Adrian says. “When companies manufacture parts for the defense, automotive, construction, medical, electronics and food industries, they need to utilize a precision stamping machine to perform specialized processes, and it’s us who develop the tooling alongside our partners. Bruderer UK has the expertise to provide full turnkey solutions for those specific production lines, and our customers take great pride in investing with us, knowing that we will return a high-performing product and that there is one point of contact. The manufacturing sector is very important to the UK, and we wholeheartedly need more government support.”
Amidst the ongoing challenges and socioeconomic obstacles, Bruderer UK is well-positioned to remain a partner of choice for the UK manufacturing industry. Moving into 2026, Adrian is hoping to see a turnaround for the sector but promises that Bruderer UK will continue to support its customers with the very best in power press application and associated ancillaries from servo feeders through to decoilers.
“The UK has got some excellent prospects within the global market, but we need the government to invest in manufacturing and the latest technologies and not try to meet unrealistic goals like Net Zero. Especially when it’s not a level playing field,” Adrian affirms, concluding our conversation. “Looking ahead, the UK needs to sell ourselves as a manufacturing powerhouse, supplying the best automotive, food, electronics, construction, medical, and IT systems available.”