At the end of April this year our Production Manager since November 2017, Peter Halpin, retired.
Managing Director Martin Hodgkinson, pictured above with Peter, presented him with a leaving gift on behalf of all staff at J P Forrest & Son, to show our appreciation for his hard work and commitment. As Peter is a keen golfer in his spare time, we bought him a gift card to spend in his local golf club shop.
The team at JPF wish Peter a long and happy retirement.
Our longest serving employee Shaun Slater, CNC horizontal borer operator, was presented with a certificate and gift of appreciation for 40 years’ service on 26th November 2024 by Managing Director, Martin Hodgkinson. Having started his working life as a YTS trainee at a local company, Shaun later joined J P Forrest & Son at the age of 17 as a driller and general labourer, progressing to milling and turning, then becoming a trainee horizontal borer operator in October 1989.
J P Forrest has recently completed the manufacture and assembly of a new vacuum boom foot fabrication for the Port of Tilbury London.
The contract included dismantling the old cast assembly and reusing some serviceable parts in the new fabricated assembly including the spur ring gear and the rope sheave.
With increased demand for larger parts and very accurately cut thin plate (typically 6mm to 12mm thick) we have recently purchased a new profile cutting machine from Kerf Developments. The machine has two flame cutting torches and one 150 amp high definition plasma cutting torch.
Machine capacity:
Maximum cutting size 7500mm long x 3500mm wide
Cutting thickness High Definition Plasma 3mm to 25mm
Cutting thickness Flame Cutting 10mm to 200mm
With increased demand for turned shafts, cover plates and flanges we have recently purchased a new Hyundai L300LC Slant Bed CNC Lathe from T W Ward.
The machine capacity is:
Swing over bed 750mm diameter
Maximum turning diameter 560mm
Maximum turning length 1320mm