Imperial Brands Plc.
A FTSE 100 business headquartered in Bristol in the UK, Imperial Brands Plc is an international business specialising in tobacco and non-tobacco brands.
They market a range of cigarettes, fine cut and smokeless tobacco products, mass market cigars, papers, tubes and now vaping products. Imperial’s brands are available in markets worldwide and include Davidoff, West, JPS, Gauloises Blondes, Golden Virginia and Blu.
The Project
- To design and install a self-closing sliding door system to fit various styles and sizes of Tobacco Gantry within the Imperial Tobacco Estate. The design must comply with the latest Government Display Ban legislation.
- To plan a countrywide Installation program for approximately 15,000 sites split into two phases. Phase 1 to install system frames. Phase 2 to install sliding doors onto frame. Phase 2 to be completed 14 days before government legislation came into effect.
- The biggest project Aspen has undertaken involved over 18 months of pre-planning. From the initial design process, prototyping and final approval to installation mapping, assembly line set-up and the creation of an in house training school.
- The installation project was split into 3 regions of the U.K – North, Central and South. Each region had it’s own dedicated Project Manager, Administrators, Supervisors and QC representatives. To achieve efficient installations each region was covered by 12 crews of 2 men.
- Warehousing was divided over Aspens three main sites: Swindon, Birmingham and Durham. Each site had a share of the 30,000 kit boxes required for installation. To put this into context – if you took all of the Phase 2 kits, laid one flat on the ground and stacked the rest on top you would have a stack of boxes reaching over 1700 metres into the sky. That’s almost 18 Big Bens or 4 Empire State Buildings.
