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Turnover of Restructured Business is Best Ever
01 Mar 2006
Three years ago, Plymouth-based subcontractor Morris Engineering had to make some serious decisions on the direction of its business, having lost 75% of its turnover within the space of a few months owing to a downturn in the microwave communications sector.
Restructuring of the business followed by a few years of consolidation have seen the company not only survive, but emerge as the pre-eminent supplier of machined parts in the West Country.
Turnover has risen to £2.5m, 10% higher than the company's previous best, 45 people are now employed and a late shift has been added within the last 12 months.
In 2003, the company set about using its existing machines to expand business within its remaining customer base, adding NC tables to a number of machining centres so it could offer 4- and 5-axis capability.
In October 2005, the company purchased from Whitehouse Machine Tools a Brother TC-32B QT twin-pallet, high-speed, verticalspindle machining centre (VMC), which has set the seal on the company's transformation. After just four months Morris Engineering committed an additional £200,000 by ordering another identical Brother, plus a further machining centre and a CNC lathe from different suppliers.
www.morris-engineering.com
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