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Autumn 2018 / Issue 12 Oldham Business EDGE Serious About Success 24 Team Spirit’s dream home Events company enters new 16 Building safety chapter with big relocation Windows and doors certification firm playing role in Grenfell Tower review 28 Saddleworth life District offers the best 12 Pearson Solicitors & of town and country Financial Advisers highlight commercial property work News | Analysis | Features | Opinion | People | Events Welcome OLDHAM BUSINESS EDGE NEWS - Send your news and photos to [email protected] Ripple unveils retail displays for Precision engineers install UK-first machine type celebrity Joe Wicks’ kitchenware as part of £1 million manufacturing investment A LEADING designer and DAWSON Precision Components (DPC) manufacturer of retail interior has installed advanced new machines at and display solutions has created its Shaw engineering base - including one merchandising stands for a new machine that is the first of its type in the UK. cookware range by celebrity DPC provides wide-ranging subcontract and health coach Joe Wicks. engineering services to clients in the UK, WELCOME to the autumn 2018 edition of Europe and beyond, across sectors including Oldham-based Ripple has worked Oldham Business Edge, now published in print aerospace, aviation, defence, energy, with the Meyer Group, the UK’s and digital formats by Credible Media, owner of environmental, marine, medical, motorsport largest supplier of kitchenware, the Oldham Chronicle Online and radio station and rail transport. to design and manufacture the Revolution 96.2. Joe Wicks point-of-purchase The new equipment, costing £230,000, This is the fourth quarterly edition of Oldham display products. represents the latest stage of investment. Business Edge published in the past 12 months Over £1 million has been invested in Paul Dawson of Dawson Precision Components (DPC) with the new Miyano BNA 42 GTY. under the new owner since the previous parent The Joe Wicks range has just been expanding DPC’s workshops and premises in It is the first of its type to be installed in the UK with LFV technology. company of the Oldham Evening Chronicle entered officially launched to UK retailers. recent years by owners Simon Dawson, Paul administration in August 2017. It includes branded cookware, Dawson and Julie Hughes. GTY. We’d heard about the machine in the aluminiums, can be cut much more efficiently. ovenware, food preparation, hydration and storage products. pipeline but wanted to see it running. It has Oldham Business Edge was the first publication to The new machines installed at DPC’s base The waste swarf falls away rather than builds a 42mm diameter capacity and has replaced up in long, stringy coils.” be relaunched by Credible Media with the valuable Joe Wicks is the UK’s first Instagram superstar and author of the second best- are a Miyano BNA 42 GTY with low frequency two older machines we had. The new support of long-standing magazine partners selling cook book of all time – Lean in 15. He is also the creator of the UK’s vibration (LFV) and a Citizen L20 Type 8, machine complements our other machining In other developments, DPC has received Pearson Solicitors & Financial Advisers, Ryder biggest tailored weight loss programme, The 90 Day Plan. also with LFV, which enables better swarf capabilities of 32mm and 50mm diameters. a strong number of enquiries linked to the & Dutton, First Choice Homes, Oldham College, management in metal or plastics. Subcon 18 supply chain show at Birmingham’s Oldham Community Leisure, the Stoller Charitable Ripple key account director Hannah Wolfenden said: “The adaptable display and “Staff at DPC have been trained on operating The Citizen is a 20mm capacity sliding head NEC earlier this year. Trust and new partner Cornerstone Design & merchandising equipment is designed to perform across different premium retail with sub-spindle live tooling and magazine the new equipment, with in-house training Marketing. environments, ranging from specialist cookware and homeware shops to prestige bar feed. It is particularly suited to long, and visits from trainers at Citizen/Miyano.” Subcon is a leading UK event for subcontract department stores including Fenwick’s and Bentalls. manufacturing professionals across all This edition has news from all our partners, along slender jobs and parts that require turning Paul added: “We have invested significantly with other businesses including Team Spirit, a industrial sectors who are looking to source “The design allows retailers the freedom to display different configurations of the and milling in one operation. recently in the latest machining equipment, highly-successful events company expanding suppliers, benchmark capabilities and secure kitchenware, tools and utensils, and communication is aided by digital video screens.” The Miyano is 42mm capacity and similar new production control software, inspection its global activities from a new, bigger base; and partners for business. It attracts international configuration to the Citizen. It is the first of facilities and skills to boost our already Assure Certification, a specialist inspector of The displays were engineered in-house by Ripple, utilising a combination of steel suppliers and includes educational seminars. its type to be installed in the UK with LFV enviable reputation.” windows, doors, installation and trade skills, which tube, sheet and wire with a powder-coated finish and melamine faced MDF. Technology, DPC said. is involved in the government’s review of the “LFV technology allows for better swarf DPC took a newly-designed exhibition stand Ripple has a long-established relationship with Meyer, a business which has Grenfell Tower fire disaster. Paul said: “Citizen and Miyano hold an open management by turning waste shavings to the NEC, reflecting its brand new website, become the market-leader in gourmet cookware through brands such as Anolon, day event every year and we recently went into chips rather than long coils. This means and met lots of good contacts, both new and Elsewhere, we have photos from the latest Circulon and Prestige. Past collaborations between Meyer Group and Ripple to Watford to see the new Miyano BNA 42 some materials, such as certain plastics and existing. Professional Oldham networking night and we have included Hestan stainless-steel cookware, launched in Harrods, and explore the attractions of Saddleworth with Ryder cookware concessions within department stores. & Dutton’s James Ebden and outdoors guide and writer Christian Maylor. Ripple is part of Ripple Group, run by managing director David Wolfenden. It works with brands and retailers including Akzo Nobel and Dulux Decorating College electrical and plumbing trainees gain work placements Enjoy the read and get in touch with your news. Centres, Trespass, Majestic Wine, B&Q, Cheshire Mouldings, Boots, Trespass, Robbie MacDonald - Contributing Editor Marshalls, Philips and Energizer. TWO Oldham College electrical and professional property environments. During and English programmes where necessary. plumbing traineeship students have had the course of their placements they put into Siobhan McCoy, First Choice Homes work experience placements with First practice the work skills they have learnt Oldham’s property care general manager, Choice Homes Oldham. through sector-specific vocational workshops The Oldham Business Edge said: “We are proud to be able to help at the college. Magazine, Oldham Chronicle Declan Clayton and Thomas Townson students work towards their career goals. Advertising: Online and Revolution 96.2 Radio started their traineeship courses last year The short, intense traineeship course is a Our property care service supports the next Address: Rachael Mayor | Email: [email protected] are part of Credible Media Ltd. and successfully completed 10 week in- fast-track to apprenticeships for work-ready generation of tradespeople. We want to work Revolution 96.2, Sarah Moor Studios, Andrew Whitehead | [email protected] house training at Oldham College. They then candidates who need extra skills development with students wherever possible to help them Henshaw Street, Oldham OL 1 3EN. Paul Webster | [email protected] secured four-week work placements at First to secure the job. to take up careers in construction, repairs and maintenance, ideally with First Choice Telephone: 0161 621 6500 Contributing editor: Robbie MacDonald. Choice Homes Oldham. The first 10 weeks of the programme includes Homes Oldham when we have vacancies. Fax: 0161 621 6521 Photography: Darren Robinson Both learners worked with experienced vocational workshops, professional and We work with a range of local partners and Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] professional operatives, gaining hands-on employability skills coaching, interview organisations to support local communities skills and site experience within domestic and techniques, employment rights, and maths and people in Oldham.” 02 Magazine design by Cornerstone Design & Marketing, 112 High Street, Lees, Oldham OL4 5DJ. www.oldhambusinessedge.co.uk 03 OLDHAM BUSINESS EDGE NEWS - Send your news and photos to [email protected] OLDHAM BUSINESS EDGE NEWS - Send your news and photos to [email protected] Charities benefit from Edge Structural Design digs deep for challenging Oldham Business Awards city centre apartment development CHEQUES worth a total of £5,000 will be handed to Oldham charities A STRUCTURAL and civil engineering