During the 1970's and 80's the British Government reduced its funding to large and small companies, stopping most of the training of their employees, resulting in fewer skilled people.  Together with two recessions and the amount of school leavers being given the chance to do a true apprenticeship to near non-existence.  As we're sure you know, this has had a knock on effect right across all industries, resulting in, after every recession, the position being created by increased work are often unfilled, or are filled by someone not fully trained for the job.

This has had a big effect on us.  Due to our high expansion rate, and being situated in what is traditionally a rural community, we have found it very hard to find locally skilled CNC machine setters and operators.  To this end, we have structured our own training programme right throughout the company.

We have a range of skill levels through every department from CNC setters, VMC setters and Inspection.  Training is mainly done on-site with any special requirements done away at local colleges or machine suppliers premises.  We work on a three month module system whereby an employee will be given a set part of the job to learn and, when fully conversant with this, they are then moved on to the next stage.