Investment drive brings new jobs to foundry
A Midlands foundry says it is searching for experienced die casters and other skilled workers after enjoying an increase in demand since the beginning of the year.
Midland Pressure Diecasting (MPD) has recently completed a £250,000 investment drive by boosting its aluminium and zinc casting output via the purchase of automated machines and an additional new ‘Frech’ die casting machine.
The company is now looking to take on four casters to help it cope with new orders in healthcare, automotive and high-value engineering.
Its latest recruitment drive will focus on employing experienced aluminium and zinc pressure die casters to support the firm’s supply to additional high volume sectors, before a longer-term plan is put into place to grow its own staff through a mentoring scheme designed to pass down the expertise to a new generation.
“It has been a really positive start to the year, despite all of the economic uncertainty that has been plaguing industry,” said Ash Suman, managing director at Midland Pressure Diecasting.
“Rather than waiting to see how Brexit plays out we’ve decided to take pre-emptive active by investing in new fully automatic diecasting machines, which provide further efficiencies and create an additional 20% capacity that we’re already starting to fill.
“We have seen business gains in both aluminium and zinc, hence why we took the action to also purchase a new Frech zinc die casting machine.”
He continued: “There aren’t that many experienced casters out there as it’s quite a specialist role, which is why we’re embarking on a major recruitment campaign to try to attract four new experts to the team. We are also looking to recruit in other specialised areas of our business, such as in CNC and maintenance engineering.”
The new year recruitment drive has already started, with the company employing an experienced CNC process engineer to oversee the increasing CNC machining work and a new quality manager.
