Makita Manufacturing Europe Ltd

Makita is Britain’s number 1 professional power tool manufacturer with the Telford, Shropshire factory building around 1.1 million tools per year. 70% of these tools are exported with 60% going to Europe and 10% going to the rest of the world, the remaining 30% supports Makita UK in servicing its customer base here within the UK.

Telford is one of nine Makita manufacturing plants across the globe that all operate to the highest ISO and Makita’s own quality standards. Makita employs the Kaizen constant improvement quality philosophy, which is for every employee to consider how the individual process for which they are responsible can be improved each day. This exceptionally high quality regime has driven the Makita brand reputation ever forward with the recognition of the reliability and performance of the products.

The Makita Manufacturing Europe Ltd facility is located on a 12.5-acre site at Hortonwood, Telford where production started in May 1991. Since then production capacity growth has been both continuous and rapid. From that initial staff of 50 in the first year the facility has grown to cover 24,071 m2 with a staff of 440.