September 28th 2023
SMEs, typically defined as those with fewer than 250 employees, play a crucial role in shaping the nation's manufacturing landscape and are an essential part of the country's...
March 22nd 2023
Building individual creative skills to help impress our customers is at the heart of what we do, so we set Aron a design challenge. We’ve long-thought that Owain needed...
February 27th 2023
A familiar face to customers and suppliers, Martyn Evans our fantastic operations director has just celebrated 40 years at Amcanu. Martyn started his career with Spencer...
February 9th 2023
We’ve been training people at the very start of their careers since 1975, and over this time we’ve learnt a few lessons that we thought we’d pass on, as part of National...
February 16th 2022
We talk a lot about why being a family business matters to us. We’re not just owned by a family, we have several different family ‘units’ all under our roof. Let’s be...
October 7th 2021
As a manufacturing business that has its 50th anniversary in the next couple of years, Amcanu knows more than most about overcoming challenges to achieve long-term...
July 14th 2021
Production on the shop floor is now more efficient than ever with the addition of a Bystronic Xpert 80 press brake to complement our existing Xpert 150 and BySprint 4020 Fibre...
May 12th 2021
As soon as the Wayland team approached us and explained what the Calibur3 machine was capable of, we were keen to get stuck in! We’re a team of technical engineers and...
January 29th 2021
Like most UK manufacturers over the past year we could not be certain as to how Brexit would impact our work. However, over the summer we started to notice an uptake in...
October 1st 2018
Josh Element joined Amcanu as an apprentice from Coleg Sir Gâr in September 2010 and then went on to be a welder fabricator. His experience on the shop floor, knowledge and...
May 31st 2018
The pace and scale of automation in manufacturing across Wales is rapid – we’re looking forward to embracing the benefits and training our workforce to make sure they have...
October 9th 2017
Mal and Peter have been with Amcanu for many years. In fact, between them they have over 50 years of service, something we’d really like to celebrate. Peter, who is...
October 5th 2017
Our Phil Tucker is off to Hawaii to compete in the IRONMAN World Championships. Phil earned his place through an amazing performance in the 2016 IRONMAN in Weymouth – where he...
June 8th 2017
We were delighted to join Cardiff University, Renishaw and Industry Wales in a panel debate organised by Insider Wales on the future of manufacturing. It was refreshing to see...
January 16th 2017
The long-awaited government review into the benefits of tidal power has finally been released. The review, by former energy minister Charles Hendry, gives support for the Swansea...
July 27th 2016
Amcanu are amongst the first businesses taking part in a new initiative being run by Lloyds Bank and industry improvement champions, the Wales Quality Centre. ‘Journey to...
