Fantastic work by our Operations Manager at Wolverhampton, Geoff Woodfield. It’s great having all the latest CNC’s and tech across our sites but sometimes the black art of experience and old school engineering hits like a breath of fresh air. Geoff knocked this set up together to correct an extrusion that was supplied out of angular tolerance, thus allowing the delivery deadline to be achieved and saving the supplier an expensive rejection. Geoff uses his knowledge to explore solutions in all sorts of ares, there is another rolling one which I believe will provide great commercial opportunities for us, I will be showcasing that later…
Great to welcome one of our key suppliers to Manchester today. With Dinis being a big football fan, recreating in part the famous Carlos Tevez Welcome to Manchester poster seemed right and fitting…but with a United lean!
Great to see people develop careers within the Sherwood Group. Ellie Griffin joined us at entry level and in a short time has progressed into a very competent machine operator, who knows she could even follow other home-grown talent such as Sarah Lyon into the programming side. Ellie has a smile and personality that enters the room ahead of her and is a great asset to the company. Her progress reflects credit on the Group for affording people opportunities, but equally enormous credit on herself for her work ethic and dedication to being the very best she can be. Ellie, we salute you.
Great to have Sherwood Group CEO Michael Horan on site at Manchester today giving a town hall talk to all the staff. The abundance of great news in the group was exciting to hear and well received by everyone. From our net zero aspirations to significant cross group capital investments, the direction is clear, onwards and upwards.
Most people arrive either through an agency a job ad or an application, but young CNC programmer Jack Gibson’s mum saw the ad and contacted us on his behalf and now over two years on has proved himself an invaluable member of the team. A great example of home-grown talent and a fantastic credit to him mum and sisters all of who I am sure helped make him the man he is today
Jack had previously completed an electrical course and saw his career going in that direction but like the rest of us was seduced by the allure of aluminium, well known as the crack cocaine of commodities. Sensible enough to still live at home, and the only brother to three older sisters Jack and the qualities he has makes him very much the face of Inal going forward, indeed, part of a triumvirate of home-grown young programmers, all of whom will be showcased in the months ahead.
All about Jack Gibson
Question. What is the best thing about working at Inal?
Answer: Recognition
Question. Worst thing about the job?
Answer: Not being able to find things
Question. Favourite football team?
Answer: Man City
Question. Describe yourself in 3 words
Answer: Precise, generous, humble
Question. Best thing about being Jack Gibson
Answer: Chilled laid-back nature
Question. Something few people know about you
Answer: His mum was pregnant with him and shopping at the time of one of the Manchester bombings
Quick fire
Married single divorce or looking. Single and looking
Best Holiday Poland
Dream holiday California
Favourite food. His mums cooking in her pre pescetarian era…Mum, please note!
Favourite TV Breaking Bad
Favourite App Instagram
Hot or cold. Hot
Spicy or sweet. Sweet
Blond or brunette. Brunette
Favourite drink, the occasional cider
Winter or summer. Summer
Star Wars or DC. May the force be with you
Role model. Mum (is the right answer!
Thing you are most proud of. How I got to be how I am
Most important goal in your life. Contentment
If you were Prime minister, what would you change? I would do more for the homeless
What quality do you admire in people. Honesty
What quality do you dislike in people. Selfishness
Jack Gibson the face of Inal 2020 Ltd
A fantastic performance by the environmental team at Inal literally breezing through a very intensive first external audit. Paul Walker Inal Quality supremo backed by Group Quality Manager Helen Shotton sailed through the audit with zero non conformances. Great credit to them, and to everyone else on site for making our environmental expectations deliverable. We salute you.
Fantastic start to 2023 with contract wins of over £2.5 million on the books covering a number of sectors. Having doubled in size in the last two years with superb back up from our supportive but non intrusive parents their acquisition of us in now reaping dividends. The future looks very bright.
Always nice to be appreciated and in the words of Neil Sandford MD at Cuecraft ” we had zero issues with the delivery and cannot express how relieved and happy we are with the quality of the material received, so thank you very much”…enough said!
Yes…the Christmas Tree 2022 is officially up. Great early work by Ellie to achieve yet another epic win for us. Have to say brilliantly decorated as well after some very questionable offerings in recent years (mentioning no names) So Merry Christmas to everyone and a very happy new year. Just a quick aluminium finishing themed Christmas cracker joke that few will get..”why didn’t the aluminium extrusion get anodised??..because it was foiled!” Boom we’re on all week.
Sherwood Group were delighted to announce the appointment recently of Milburn Paterson as Operations Manager for Inal 2020 Ltd at its Manchester site.
Milburn a 37 year veteran of aluminium and manufacturing brings with him a huge range of skills and experience from his time spanning 3 decades as MD of a key aluminium processor, an aluminium extruder, and more recently as CEO of an automotive tier supplier.
Milburn has many contacts over the years with Inal and is very well known to most of the staff, indeed his son Connor joined us as a graduate on NBD earlier in the year, it is like a homecoming in many ways. Milburn’s knowledge of troubleshooting, organisation, change management, quality and efficiency are second to none in the industry, and already we can see the difference he has made.
A family man Milburn is married to Kim and has two grown up sons Connor and Kieran, and a dog Pippa which by my maths would make Mil about 4th in the pecking order.
Born in Scotland a fisherman of some note Milburn is an Everton fan so like many of us knows disappointment pain and hurt but most importantly ambition!
“Making a welcome return to mainstream aluminium as part of the Sherwood Group was an opportunity to good to miss” said Milburn, and we’re excited to have him.
Milburn pictured with Pippa below…Milburn’s on the right by the way.
