Arc Energy Resources Supports Stroud Festival of Manufacturing & Engineering
Eastington-based Arc Energy Resources – one of the UK’s leading specialists in weld overlay cladding and quality assured fabrication services – will be supporting this year’s Stroud Festival of Manufacturing & Engineering and hopes to encourage pupils from the county’s local schools and colleges to choose a career in engineering.
Director Rosemary Robinson is proud of the skilled engineers the company has assembled, a team that is qualified to internationally recognised standards and specifications, and capable of delivering quality products from enquiry to delivery and the service beyond.
Explaining the company’s approach to people management, Rosemary says that if Arc Energy Resources is to maintain its standards and plan for the future, it is essential to continue to recruit and train skilled staff. “Recruiting and training has proved a major challenge recently. A decade ago there was a pool of skilled staff who moved between companies, many of them having served apprenticeships in large organisations.” says Rosemary. “Today this resource no longer exists. Manufacturing became unfashionable with government and education and was allowed to decline. Fewer apprenticeships were served, fewer students entered engineering and, as experienced engineers retired there were fewer, new engineers trained to replace them.”
With the nearest external welding apprenticeships available more than 25 miles from Arc Energy’s Eastington facility, offering apprenticeships to 16 year olds was proving impractical and unattractive to businesses and youngsters due to the cost and travelling time. This left Arc Energy Resources with little option but to sponsor its own graduates and train its own employees.
A recent success for Arc Energy Resources is Charlie Fryer who, at just 14, enjoyed a week’s work experience with the company in 2005. Encouraged by the ‘experience’, Charlie applied for and was accepted for an apprenticeship at Arc Energy Resources on leaving school. And in July 2013, having undergone extensive on- and off-site training and an often intensive course at Gloucester College, Charlie completed his apprenticeship and is now employed by the company as a Project Engineer. And the story doesn’t end there because Charlie is now working towards an HND in Mechanical Engineering. This success, and others like it, have encouraged and motivated Arc Energy Resources, which has recently announced two further apprenticeships – Lee Crosbee (20) and Kieran Kellett (23) – in Fabrication and Welding at Bristol College.
Summarising, Rosemary Robinson explains that the skills and experience the Arc Energy Resources team brings to the company is invaluable in ensuring that it remains the partner of choice for the supply of weld overlay cladding and complex weld fabrications.
If you’re considering a career in engineering, Arc Energy Resources will be exhibiting at the Stroud Festival of Manufacturing & Engineering on 11th and 12th November at Stroud Subscription Rooms and will be on hand to offer advice.
For further information contact:
Rosemary Robinson, Arc Energy Resources
Unit 12 Eastington Industrial Estate, Meadow Mill, Eastington, Gloucestershire GL10 3RZ
Tel: +44 (0)1453 823523 Fax: +44 (0)1453 823623
E-mail: sales@arcenergy.co.uk Web: www.arcenergy.co.uk
For press information contact:
Dennis Cantillion, Cantillion King Advertising
16 The Cornhill, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 2JT
Tel: +44 (0)1453 755551 Fax: +44 (0)1453 751525 E-mail: dennis@cka.co.uk
Arc Energy Resources is one of the UK’s leading specialists in weld overlay cladding and fabrication for the oil & gas industry. The company’s expertise provides protection against corrosion and wear for a variety of process and pipeline equipment for use in any hostile environment.
The company recently made a major investment in two new Rotating Head welding machines costing £500,000. This has increased productivity and extended the size and scope of work it can handle, which now includes complicated component geometries for the full or partial cladding and fabrication of a huge range of component sizes weighing up to 15 tonnes. The company’s in-house designed cladding workstations feature state-of-the-art control systems developed to suit its customer’s specialised engineering requirements, and can clad bores up to four metres diameter and areas of restricted access within bores as small as 20mm diameter. Arc Energy also offers in-house test weld, heat treatment, PMI and NDT facilities.
Industry certifications include ISO 9001:2008 quality management, ISO 3834-2 fusion welding of metallic materials, and the internationally renowned ASME U and R Stamps, as well as ISO 14001:2004 environment management, Investors in People and OHSAS 18001:2007 Health & Safety management system.
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