Continued growth at
Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) has now seen the Tamworth cutting tool manufacturer add another technical sales engineer to its team.
The company has expanded its product portfolio and also its service, support, re-grind and bespoke tooling offering. To underpin this growth, ITC has continually added more technical sales engineers to retain its unparalleled levels of customer service and support and the appointment of Luke Insley as a new technical sales engineer will bolster the support offered to manufacturing companies in the South-East region of the UK.
Completing his apprenticeship with HPC Precision Engineering in 2009 with an HNC in mechanical engineering, Mr Insley has extensive experience as a machinist on a diverse range of machine tools from the Fanuc Robodrill to Makino, Doosan, Hardinge and others. This progressed to CAD/CAM programming before switching to a role with a motion control manufacturer.
Following this, he returned to HPC as a production engineer with a remit of production analysis and improvement using tools such as 6 Sigma, Kaizen and lean manufacturing processes. Adding to this experience, Mr Insley has spent the last five years with a leading cutting tool manufacturer as an application engineer, delivering process improvements and cost savings for customers.
Complete support networkHe said: “The opportunity to work with a UK cutting tool manufacturer is perfect. As a UK manufacturer, ITC has the complete support network from the design and production of standard and special tools, re-grinds and also the facility to trial tools and develop projects here in the UK.
“I will be tasked with technical sales in the Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Middlesex area, but I will also be looking to support customers with process improvement and cycle time reductions, especially for customers machining hard and challenging materials. I am relishing the opportunity to help manufacturers in the area.”
ITC director Georgia Graves added: “Luke has a well-proven track record in the industry and above this, he has operated as a sales engineer in the south of England for several years with a strong understanding of the area, the prominent sectors and the manufacturing companies operating in the region.
“With our ever-expanding offering, our strategy has been to add more technical sales engineers to all geographical areas of the UK to emphasise our expertise and build upon our position as a full-line supplier of advanced technical solutions. This strategy requires investment in customer support, so manufacturers can be confident that they are receiving the very best levels of service.”