Grainger & Worrall continues investment plan

Grainger & Worrall has appointed Mark Powell in a newly created position – director, foundry operations.

The appointment is aligned with the continued roll out of its £6m investment plan, which focuses on enhanced production efficiency across its business worldwide.

Matthew Grainger, Grainger & Worrall’s CEO, said: “Mark Powell joins us with a wealth of experience and his knowledge will provide additional focus on our drive to achieve increased efficiency. He is a perfect fit for our family-run company and he can help communicate this ethos throughout our global operations. We look forward to working towards ambitious targets and on exciting plans together.”

Powell said: “Having begun my career in a technical apprenticeship and worked my way up the ladder in a variety of challenging roles, I have an appreciation of the operational efficiencies and internal communications required to ensure that everybody at Grainger & Worrall is working towards the same common goal.

“The restructuring of the company’s operations will help to encourage knowledge-sharing, including shared learning, and further promote consistent best practice by instigating process control improvements. It’s an exciting time for Grainger & Worrall, but also from a personal perspective. This is a great opportunity to work for a British engineering company that’s thriving at home and overseas, and I cannot wait to get started.”

Grainger & Worrall’s £6m investment plan includes the building of two new, highly efficient melting towers at its Bridgnorth UK headquarters, the addition of a larger, third CT scanner to expand throughput capacity by 50%, and the opening of its US company, GW Inc.