Niche Producers Find Hot Prospects Inside The Machine

IN A cramped and anonymous workshop opposite a housing estate in the Isle of Man, a handful of people supervise Hi – tech pressing machines that stamp out minuscule metal parts that form the key components of control switches for electric kettles.

The parts are produced according to a secret formula and are the sensors that recognise when water has boiled in an electric kettle and switch the device off virtually instantly.

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