Defence & aerospace

The defence industry has critical demands of agility, accuracy responsiveness and reliability. As operational requirements constantly migrate and change, so does the supply chain which supports them.

Wincanton has extensive experience in serving the defence and aerospace community. We support manufacturing and spares support environments for land, sea and air platforms and the growing civil defence and government arena. Equipment supported ranges from helicopters to jet aircraft, armoured vehicles, communication systems through to fire and urban rescue vehicles. Agile and bespoke solutions are delivered, recognising the unique constraints, accreditations and skills necessary for defence, whilst incorporating the scale, resources and international reach of Wincanton.

Physical logistics, including storage, distribution and packing, services are provided to major defence companies, frequently as part of new generation 'spares availability based' contracts. Our operations are based in optimally located Wincanton support centres, on customers' facilities or on military bases. Specialised performance and military packaging is also designed, manufactured and supplied from in house manufacturing centres in line with UK, NATO and US defence standards.

Wincanton have a dedicated range of services for the defence industry, designed to support initial production or the ongoing through life of a platform. These include:

• Inbound logistics - component infeed and kitting from vendor to production
• Spares / reverse logistics - collection, storage and distribution of serviceable and unserviceable spares
• Post production & military packing- specialised on or off site packing and outbound logistics to trade, military or export standards
• Packaging design, manufacture & supply- in house design, production and supply of performance packaging

Defence & aerospace sector clients include:

	AgustaWestland Helicopters AgustaWestland Transmissions BAE Systems Land Systems BAE Systems Military Air Support BAE Systems Submarine Solutions General Dynamics UK Honeywell Aerospace Lockheed Martin Insys Thales Underwater Systems VT Critical Services