Hayter believe Quality Control is a way of life that every one has a part to play in. In every aspect of the production of a lawnmower from the initial design to delivery of the finished product to the customer quality must always be taken as the number one priority. Quality Engineering is achieved by the dedicated Hayter staff who takes a pride in the work they carry out and investment in state of the art computer technologies.

Hayter hold the quality standard BS EN 9001:2000

The standard complements our existing philosophy of:

• Structured management system
• Process monitoring of performance and quality
• Customer focused to ensure product quality

Computer Aided Design

Hayter has invested in the future by the introduction of a state of the art Three Dimension Computer Aided Design Package (Pro Engineer).

Pro Engineer provides an industry-leading productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with our industry and company standards. The package allows Hayter to design faster than ever, while maximising innovation and quality to ultimately create exceptional products. Customer requirements may change and time pressures may continue to mount, but our product design needs remain the same.

Laser Profiling Machine

Cutting, bending, welding and painting are a way of life for a lawnmower manufacturer like Hayter and precision fit of parts starts with closely controlled cutting and profiling of steel sheet prior to subsequent operations. This new laser profiling machine takes care of all our cutting needs. It's fast, highly accurate, optimises use of sheet material and eliminates the need for additional finishing operations that were previously needed.

Robot Welding

Welding is a key manufacturing process for both homeowner and commercial products. Weak or misplaced welds will fail under conditions of hard work, so robot welding is used to give consistently high standards of welding, time after time. Supplying exactly the right amount of weld in exactly the right place will deliver the highest levels of reliability and durability. Programmable robot welding is employed to provide this level of consistent weld quality.

Paint Pre-Treatment

Strong paint adherence is a must for garden and turf machinery due to stone chipping, general thumps-and-bumps and, of course, mother nature's relentless attack on all surfaces of grass cutting equipment. Hayter's recent investment in a new state-of-the-art paint pre-treatment plant ensures a clean and contamination-free surface for high quality powder paint coating of both aluminium and steel components. Quality starts with good preparation.

Powder Coat Finish

A deep lustrous British Racing Green finish is one of the defining trade-marks of Hayter's products. It's what our customers expect and reflects the heritage and quality that is built into every machine. Don't expect anything less.

Inventory Checks / Picking Parts

Some companies check and validate their stocks only once per year. At Hayter we audit and verify inventory on a continuous basis to ensure it is correct and that parts are available for production and spares requirements.

Consumer Assembly

Hand built is what customers expect and hand built is what we do. The consumer assembly lines are configured so that all material and tools are easily to hand leaving our trained assembly work force free to concentrate on correctly building quality products.

Commercial Assembly

Assembly of complex commercial products requires skill, experience and attention to detail. Hayter's commercial assembly team does just this. Quality is built in and the team is responsible for its own inspection at every stage of build. We work hard so the machine will work hard for you.

Finished Goods

Hayter is moving to a production system that will allow us to build smaller batches more frequently thus ensuring that all products are available when customers require them. Right first time, available and on time, is our goal.