Baxi Heating UK has announced proposals to move its Packaged Plant Solutions business from its current site in Milton Keynes to the company’s much larger manufacturing site in Bamber Bridge, near Preston, Lancashire.
The heating products are all warehoused in Preston, so it will significantly reduce transportation and therefore carbon footprint by manufacturing packaged plant rooms and skids of heating equipment at the same site.
Meeting a zero-carbon future
This proposal, if implemented following consultation, will, regrettably, result in several job losses and the closure of the Milton Keynes site. However, it will also mean that several jobs will be redeployed at Preston. This reorganization will consolidate and focus our manufacturing, operational expertise, assembly, and distribution footprint as a single site Centre of Excellence.
It firmly believes that by consolidating the manufacturing activities onto one site, it can be better placed to meet the many challenges and opportunities that changes to the UK heating market present as it moves towards a zero-carbon future.