Fanuc extends successful J L Goor partnership in Ireland

Left to right: Fanuc Ireland‘s office manager Conor O’Kelly and Padraic McDonnell, J L Goors general manager – service and projects

For over 20 years, the partnership between J L Goor Machinery and automation expert Fanuc has been ‘an outstanding success story’ in the Irish polymer market. Mullingar-based J L Goor Machinery are the Irish partner for Fanuc’s Roboshot range of all-electric injection moulding machines, with over 700 units installed in Ireland. The relationship is now being extended to include Fanuc’s Robodrill CNC compact machining centres, serving key industry segments including medical devices, aerospace, automotive components, fabrication and precision engineering.

J L Goor’s offering for Roboshot fit-out, installation and support has grown in scale and complexity over the past 20 years, resulting in record-breaking sales this year. Furthermore, the company recently opened a 1,200m² Centre of Excellence in Mullingar, which includes manufacturing space for electrical design, installation, testing, fabrication and machinery customisation, plus a dedicated training and mould-testing facility. With its position cemented as Ireland’s leading supplier of injection moulding machines, the company is extending its offering to include Fanuc’s renowned Robodrill range of CNC machining centres.

Conor O’Kelly, Fanuc Ireland office manager, said: “Since the establishment of Fanuc Ireland in 2022, we have been committed to supporting our Irish customers with on-the-ground sales, service and technical support, and J L Goor have been an important partner in this customer offering.

“Ireland is a key territory for Fanuc globally and our J L Goor partnership has enabled us to support customers with a moulding footprint in Ireland, Europe and the USA. We are acknowledging that many of Fanuc and J L Goor’s customers have both a polymer moulding requirement as well as a metals machining need, in key sectors like medical device and aerospace manufacturing. It is therefore a natural evolution of our relationship and we expect J L Goor to become as strategic a partner for our machining customers as it is for our moulding clients.”

Phil Watters, J L Goor’s managing director, said: “Manufacturers in Ireland are world class operations in critical industries where zero-defect quality and compliant production is demanded. They base their manufacturing on highly reliable equipment, supported by local expertise. Fanuc and J L Goor have been providing this service to manufacturers in Ireland for decades now, and we are delighted to extend this service to another key industry in Ireland – precision engineering – using the Robodrill product range.”

To meet expected demand, J L Goor has appointed Noel Bracken, who is experienced in the machining sector, as its new salesperson. He said: “There’s real potential for the Robodrill to transform drilling, milling, cutting and polishing applications for companies in sectors such as medical, aerospace and precision component manufacturing. I am looking forward to promoting the Fanuc range and showing manufacturers the benefits we can bring to their operation in terms of increased productivity, reduced costs and energy savings.”