The changes came about after John Stalker (metals specialist with an Operations Board background from a billion £ turnover group) bought the business for an undisclosed sum and has since invested approaching £2million in new machinery, IT and infrastructure: putting the business back onto the map as a seriously competitive supplier and towards its original glory days in the early 1980's when The Laser Cutting Co was the pioneering first (and only) laser tube cutting business in the UK.
Nowadays Laser Cutting still provides specialist tube cutting services but is in the process of replacing 2 well used flat bed machines with a state of the art Trumpf 6kw 4 x 2 flatbed. This new facility - one of only 3 in the UK - offers THICK & THIN flat metal cutting at the fastest most efficient speeds available in the UK. In a nut shell with the highest laser cutting technology available commercially the new machine slices easily through stainless and mild steel - up to one inch thick. Very thin materials also benefit from cutting speeds up to 3 times faster than a lower powered machine.
John said "We are increasingly finding that people are using laser components to cut out wasteful additional downstream processing, very notably welding which can be fraught with difficulty. By using more accurately produced parts you can de-skill some jobs and guarantee speed and quality on many more assembly operations.
The picture attached shows the new 14 tonne machine being delivered on 6th January, using a mobile crane – watched by an excited team including Jan Tether – Production Supervisor and John Stalker Managing Director.
Commissioning the machine may take up to a week and Laser Cutting is planning a modest celebration later in the month to ‘christen’ the first customer parts off the new machine.
