Onward marks major landmark with work on one of its biggest orders
A BLACK Country manufacturer has marked its 45th anniversary with work on one of the largest projects in its history.
Willenhall-based Onward Fabrications has produced a furnace casing for customer Hasco Thermic.
The casing, which is 18m long x 4m wide x 3.5m high, is being shipped to the Transvaal, South Africa next month where it will be used to hot dip galvanize a large range of steel product.
Darren Price, managing director, Onward said: “We have a modern workshop with a crane rail height of 12 metres that facilitates the manufacture of large fabrications and structures utilising our overhead cranes. This has allowed us to carry out work on this scale.”
The company employs 12 people and has a portfolio of domestic and global customers in a diverse range of sectors.
It produces products such as huge turntables used by articulated lorries so that they don’t have to reverse in built up areas or city centres following a supermarket delivery, robust chargers for foundries to allow maximum utilisation of the furnace and vibratory de-watering and sizing screens for the sand and mineral mining industries.
Other projects have included structures and support steelwork, walkways, kilns, dryers, cupolas, air heaters, sheet-metalwork hoppers, tanks, cyclones, guards, fume and dust extraction plant.
The firm moved to the Owen Road Industrial Estate in 1984 and during the recession it continued to invest by constructing a new building to house a new CNC water jet cutting machine and later purchase an adjoining building which houses a CNC milling and turning machines.
“We haven’t come across a material yet that we can’t cut, above all the water jet offers a far superior finish to laser cutting and we can cut up to 200mm thick,” said Price.
Angela Curtis, of Hasco Thermic, said: “We rely on our suppliers to provide us with the highest quality product in order for us to win business using the British-made brand. Onward Fabrications certainly enable us to do that, their workmanship is excellent and they are great company to work with.”
