A short while ago Lestercast were delighted to be able to sponsor the Motorsports Industry Association (MIA) Business Awards and coverage in this month’s edition of Racecar Engineering.
What Customer Audits Can Reveal About Your Processes
As a prerequisite to the undertaking of new business, many of our customers need to put our foundry, facilities and processes through an audit with hugely stringent criteria.
When it comes to progress updates, we’re flying!
When you receive feedback from a customer saying….. “Amazing! I’ve never had so much updated data from a supplier for work-in-progress parts. Good customer service! You know you’re doing something…
Directors Casting Cut – 2015 Annual Roundup Direct from the Directors!
Welcome to our latest Director’s Blog – directly from the top, this is our annual roundup of the year and a few points that have arisen towards the end of…
Rapid Prototyping at Lestercast
Known for its leadership in rapid prototyping for the motorsport sector, Lestercast exude expertise in producing thin-wall investment castings using stainless steel, Inconels, Hastelloys and specialist high temperature alloys for…
Step by Step – Research and Development Centre Takes Shape
As part of the ongoing investment in our premises here at Lestercast, our brand new Research and Development Centre is beginning to take shape before our very eyes. From what…
Lestercast Sponsor MIA Small Business of the Year 2015 Award
Thursday 14th January sees the highly coveted event of the year, the Motorsport Industry Association’s Business Excellence Awards Dinner which takes place at the Birmingham NEC to mark the high-fliers in…
Rapid Prototyping Vs Traditional Casting Methods
What is Rapid Prototyping….in a nutshell? Rapid prototyping is a technique used to quickly manufacture a scale model through the use of a CAD programme to implement the design and…
Lestercast Walk the Line – Offshore Europe 2015
Drawing on experience, face-to-face interaction between customers and clients is the ultimate tool in securing new contacts; which is why we made it up to SPE Offshore Europe last week…
Customer Service Satisfaction Survey 2015
It seems self-evident that companies should try to satisfy their customers at all levels and at any cost, almost! Satisfied customers usually return and buy more, certainly in our sector…
How Customer Surveys Help Company Growth
It seems self-evident that companies should try to satisfy their customers at all levels and at any cost, almost! Satisfied customers usually return and buy more, certainly in our sector…
Directors’ Casting Cut – July/August 2015
July/August 2015 Welcome to our Blog feature! Our Directors Malcolm Healey and Chris Batty will, each month, share their perspectives on how Lestercast continues to thrive as a dynamic and entrepreneurial…
Graduates Graduate to Lestercast
Lestercast are very much affiliated with local educational establishments and encouraging work-related training. With this in mind we welcome applications from Graduates and students alike wishing to take part in…
Why Our Storage Systems Are Working Out Just the Way We Planned
We have taken delivery of a computerised modular vertical lift system for storage of stock in the past few weeks at the Lestercast premises. The machine has been purpose built…
Transitioning from Here to There!
Always looking to develop and enhance our internal facilities and processes, each of our inspectors now has a state-of-the-art Dell touch-screen device which is using the Synchro SFDC (shop floor data…
Directors’ Casting Cut – May/June 2015
May/June 2015 Welcome to our new Blog feature! Our Directors Malcolm Healey and Chris Batty will, each month, share their perspectives on how Lestercast continues to thrive as a dynamic…
How to Use Rapid Prototyping to Streamline Your Product Design
What is Rapid Prototyping….in a nutshell? Rapid prototyping is a technique used to quickly manufacture a scale model through the use of a CAD programme to implement the design and…
Essential Qualities of a Highly Successful Marketing Campaign – The Corporate Video
This past week, we’ve had our film crew, gurus, experts, extraordinaires in to take our corporate film to the next level! Having obtained a Grant to part-fund our media output…
