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September 2010
Production Engineering Solutions
It was a bold decision by two enthusiastic partners, George Dingley and Yian Stavrou, to set-up their Sub-CNC Precision subcontract machining business in April 2009. At that time many would have held back amid the worst recession for many decades. Solutions reports.
Both Mr Dingley and Mr Stavrou are time served engineers, growing up around small turned parts produced in subcontract machine shops. Between them they have wide experience, totalling some 25 years, setting mainly Citizen machines.
Far from being reckless but showing total commitment to success, the decision to go it alone has certainly paid off. Within 18 months, Sub-CNC Precision installed two Citizen CNC sliding head turn/mill centres and a fixed head 2-axis lathe, all of which now virtually run around the clock serving a customer base that spans telecoms, aerospace, motorsport, medical, defence, marine and agricultural sectors.
Having worked through the problems encountered during the last recession in the 1990s and benefitting from a period of almost continuous growth up until the tide turned again two years ago, they both felt that this time they wanted to be in control of their own destiny. As Mr Dingley recounts: “We had a distinct advantage – that we understood machining and knew how to get the very best performance from a sliding head machine. We were confident we had something to offer customers providing we had the right type of equipment.”....read more
