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!
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.
Fantastic day at Pride Park Derby on Thursday at a very select supplier day. The launch including a virtual factory tour of what will possibly be the largest single roof building in Europe was exceptional. We are proud at INAL 2020 to be one of the selected few in the supply chain a chain that will drive this sea change in how construction delivers affordable and sustainable housing.
Indications that the UK/Iceland fishing disputes of the 70’s never really went away were evidenced in Iceland today when our co owner Paul Thurston on a holiday fishing trip was caught at odds with a local angler Rumours that the high cost of dining out in Iceland has led to a dispute in fishing rights between locals and visitors are at a heightened level and the adage teach a man to fish and you’ll save him a fortune dining out has never been more profound.
Circuit Braking news from Manchester as the sites first EV arrived today, driven by none other than proud custodian our commercial graduate Connor Paterson. This acquisition is an extension of CEO Michael Horan’s company-wide commitment to embrace environmental considerations as a key part of all future decisions. This and other similar polices will further underpin our much-vaunted successes in the aluminium green sector generally…It’s good to give back.
