Automotive supplier WES commits to £200k machinery investment

L-R Daniel Hutchings, Andrew Hosking and James Gazzard pictured in front of their new investment
L-R Daniel Hutchings, Andrew Hosking and James Gazzard pictured in front of their new investment

WES Engineering Solutions, a Redruth-based precision engineering manufacturer that specialises in tooling for the automotive industry, is one of many on the edge of the Brexit ripple and the car industry decline, and yet are proving that investment is key to their ongoing success.

Launching into 2019, the company is financing a £200,000 machinery investment, indicating WES’s success, commitment to its local workforce and UK manufacturing.

Daniel Hutchings, group operations manager at WES said: “As key suppliers to the automotive industry, including Jaguar Land Rover, we know, more than most, the impact of today’s challenging climate. We are in a unique environment and yet our investment not only boosts our machining capabilities but is also an investment in skills. Growing world-class talent through our apprentice scheme, with new machinery that our early engineers and our very best specialists can both utilise, enables us to deliver complex engineering solutions across every spectrum of industry we supply, as well as delivering new market opportunities.”

Achieving double digit growth in 2018 as well as expanding with three new apprentices and additional recruitment, WES has a 25 year heritage of working with some of the world’s toughest and rarest metals, manufacturing products for a wide range of global organisations including the aerospace, automotive and oil and gas industries.

James Gazzard, group commercial manager of WES added: “The recent purchase of a highly advanced new CNC mill-turn machine is instrumental in increasing our productivity and efficiencies, strengthening our ability to work with some of the hardest materials on the planet, broadening our abilities across a wide-range of products and services as well as offering opportunities to diversify into new markets and enabling us to provide an even better service to our customers.”

Jon Hurrell, CEO of the Cornwall Manufacturers Group concluded: “Technology is reshaping the manufacturing industry and WES’s commitment, despite trade concerns, raw material price increases, supplier stockpiling issues and everything else surrounding Brexit, is an exceptional example of their commitment to manufacturing, reflecting their invaluable contribution to this global industry.”

WES www.wesltd.com

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