Thanks to all those that attended (& who nicked all the chocolate brownies??)

Hamish

This was a short video Becci recently recorded, which shows our Signscape

factory in Langford. I think from now on I will let Becci do these, as she is clearly

so much better at filming than I am.  I know it’s not the same as coming to visit

us in the flesh, but at least it gives you an idea of all our manufacturing facilities.

It shows our Powder Coating line, as well as some of our products in manufacture

Post & Panel, Noticeboards, Fingerposts as well as our in-house fabricating.

Alternatively you can always pop down and say hello!

3-way Fingerpost

During our recent Open Days, it gave us a good excuse to take some photographs of our signs in and around the premises. We’ve updated our signs outside, by creating a “sign village” showing different types of signs, including Infocurve, Lynester Noticeboards, Post & Panel, BigBox, EcoVision Post & Panel and our Fingerposts (as above photograph).  You can see some of the others on our Flickr Gallery

We also hosted a very successful meeting for one of our customers who were able to utilise the premises for their meeting and receive product training at the same time.

If you would like to use our facilities to host a meeting, or see some of the examples of work we can manufacture and supply, please feel free to pop down.

  I think we’re just about ready for the open day now    

really looking forward to it and seeing so many people

that we haven’t seen for a while. We’re just about

ready (I think), couple more jobs and then a quick

tidy up on Monday morning, ready to see everyone

Tuesday. Hope you can make it, but if you can’t make

it on either 15th or 16th September, you are always

welcome any time. We are showing some new and

old products, together with some revamped ones;

so there should be something for everyone. Ann and

Sue are organising all the food – which I’m looking

forwared to already.

Talking of the shopfloor, we are continuing our improvements on a weekly basis. We have just had a Health & Safety check as well, which highlighted some further improvements we could make. We are using the quieter months to get all the improvements carried out, before the beginning of September, when traditionally we see the start of a busier time up to Christmas.

So there I was, in the office, baking hot day and only 5 minutes to go before lunch. And as you may know from my previous blog, lunch is not just a time to stuff my face with scrummy sandwiches, but my chance to stretch my legs on Dolbury hill.

Anyway, I made the rookie mistake of answering the phone just as I was about to leave. After a 25 minute conversation with the customer, I started on the quote I had just promised he could have back within the hour, curses!

Fifty five minutes later my duty was done and the quote was hurtling across cyberspace to my expectant customer.

Right, time to get some fresh air. (And look forward to a very short afternoon)

As I walked up the track, my reward for this tireless dedication to my job ran across the path in front of me. The little fella in the picture is a juvenile Field Mouse and if I hadn’t been delayed by the urgent quote I would never have got this great shot.

So there you go, when things don’t go quite as you expected, just look forward to the good things that will happen as a result!

Lucky Dip

 This is what happens when you try to help!

Thought I would tidy up production a bit after a hectic day and moved the trolley loaded with grub screws  just a fraction to sweep the floor.  Big mistake, it fell over and they spilled out of their neat little compartments onto the floor in a big heap.  When I started managing production in January I didn’t know one end of a grub screw from the other.  Well, I certainly do now and I will be sorting them back into their little compartments from now until Christmas!  Sue. 

Just finished repainting our saw room with anti-slip paint, been a bit smelly for a few days, but hopefully will avoid the hazard of slipping for the guys on the saw. New extractors to be fitted shortly.  Sun glasses will have to be compulsory to work in room!!

Sue has now got the enviable task of putting everything back and making it easier to work in the area. We have put the saw as far away from the powder coating area as possible, to eliminate any cross-contamination.