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.
Great week at Inal 2020 when we played host to one of our American export customers, just prior to shipping a full container of processed extrusions to the US. After a few days at the factory and enjoying the local highlights, Connor Patterson Liverpool fan, made the ultimate sacrifice in escorting the MD Ed to see Man Utd v Sheriff in the Europa League. This proved a fitting finale a first “soccer match” for Ed much high fiving followed as traditional British beer flowed. Team Inal were at their very best, well done everyone involved we were awesome.
UB Plastics is pleased to confirm an acquisition by Sherwood Group.
Sherwood Group – comprising Sherwood Stainless and Aluminium, Neville Precision Engineering and Inal 2020 – based in Wolverhampton is an ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified privately owned specialist supplier and fabricator of aluminium extrusion, stainless steel & aluminium coil, stainless steel sheets and special finish lighting products for industry.
UB Plastics inhabits over 70,000 sq ft of space in Burton, with 40 staff operating 25 product lines, 6-axis robots and in-mould labelling, creating innovative products for customers including beverage giants Diageo (Guiness), Carlsberg, Molson and ice-cream market leader Graphics Packaging.
The company led by Andy Cox and Steven Brown design and manufacture all their products at their factory situated in Burton on Trent in Staffordshire.
“We’ve known Terry and Paul at Sherwood Group for a long time” said Andy Cox, Director UB Plastics. “In fact, Roy Caswell who was part of the UB founding team in 1983, has been close to Terry and Paul even before Sherwood Group became a trading entity in 1990.”
“We’re excited at UB Plastics. It’s the right move at the right time. Sherwood have demonstrated their market leadership in recent years and the acquisition helps us firstly secure the business and access investment for growth without losing focus on core markets”.
“We’re looking forward to working with some of the best people in the aluminium industry and see an exciting future for the combined business and our customers”, he added.
“We’re thrilled to complete this deal” said Paul Thurston, Sherwood Group co-founder.
“In joining the Sherwood Group, UB Plastics immediately offers new products and new markets as well as huge opportunities for existing customers looking for specialist composite support and plastic injection moulding.”
“With a rise in use and specification of industrial plastics and composites in some of our key sectors, it was the right time to make a strategic investment to bring this capability in-house. In so doing, it will provide product design and financial benefits to customers looking to pool their buying with suppliers able to provide a comprehensive offering” he added.