FWUK 2014

Another great day at FWUK 2014

It was an early start for this year's Foundry Workshop UK, the annual one day table top event was held @ Derby's IPRO stadium, home of The Rams.

Cast Metal & Diecasting Times (organizers of the event) booked The Toyota suite for the exhibitors, papers were divided in two rooms the Pedigree and Avensis suite. This allowed the delegates to choose which paper they would attend and provided a steady flow of traffic through the main room. Ten papers were given in total. We arrived at 7.30am to setup and were served tea, coffee and biscuits, Steve Hill president of FESA (supporters of the event) opened with a welcome speech followed shortly after by Professor Peter Cooke's paper on" The evolving UK and European Automotive Industries "he took time to visit and chat with Synchro after giving his paper; he took some of our literature and a USB stick! By lunch time (which I might add was fabulous!) all of the attendees had arrived and the day began to buzz.

We had time to chat to some of our customers, Kia Siavashi from Finecast who had travelled from West Sussex! Craig Grant of Lucy Castings, Mike Stanley of Shakespeare Foundry and Patrick Herron of Darwins all took time to stop by to say hello, thanks guys, it was nice to see you! The stalwart exhibitors attended, Omega, Inductotherm, Asmet, Eurotek Systems just a few to name. It was lovely to meet up again with the guys at Foundry Trade Journal and Cast Metal Diecasting Times (Synchro ERP regularly advertise with) and finally to meet Colin Robinson who worked hard to make this event happen. On behalf of Synchro thank you Colin.

Lynn Postle, editor of Foundry Trade Journal of course attended and kindly posed for a picture. Laurie Palmer of Arun Technology and Former president of FESA also attended as an exhibitor and a speaker, it was good to see him again. Other new people we met were Richard Chandler and Richard Phillips of Novacast Ltd; spent a fair amount of time discussing with Simon Adlington – Global Implementation Manager for Synchro the benefits of an extensive all inclusive Foundry Specific System(photo above). The group from Mil- Ver Metal Company Ltd also visited our table top and had a long old discussion with Simon Adlington giving me another opportunity for a quick picture, thank you!

In my opinion this one day event will grow and grow; this is the 4th year, developing into an important date in the foundry calendar. Synchro ERP are proud to support and attend.

Thank you to all who make this happen – See you all next year.
Bianca Catherall

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