Xerox extends old partnership into manufacturing

Xerox signs £5m p.a. deal with Sulzer Infra for Mitcheldean plant

Sulzer Infra might have acquired infrastructure solutions company, CBX, when it was part-owned by Xerox, but the partnership between FM service provider and document company continues apace. Sulzer has announced that it has this week added a £5 million a year facilities management agreement for the Xerox manufacturing complex at Mitcheldean, Gloucester, UK.

David Morris, Sulzer Infra CBX's Director of Facilities Management, was enthusiastic about the win, emphasising that: "the contract award was based on a risk and reward agreement, with significant targets to achieve designed to deliver exceptional efficiencies to the individual Xerox business divisions located at Mitcheldean."

Admitting that FM for the manufacturing sector was a departure for Sulzer, who were more usually associated with the property and facilities management of large office portfolios, David Morris said that this FMA meant that the entirety of Xerox's UK property portfolio was now entrusted to Sulzer Infra.

"The strategy for Mitcheldean manufacturing plant encompasses full rationalisation of contracts, reprofiling of routine engineering maintenance, and the eventual separation and restructuring of project management away from site support facilities maintenance".

"The addition of the Mitcheldean manufacturing site to the Sulzer Infra client portfolio also opens up new and extensive opportunities, within the manufacturing sector, to us, as an infrastructure solutions company", he finished.