Author Archives: Ashleigh Hancock

At a time when there is so much going on in the world, we can often forget that there are locals struggling too! To help, we’ve been collecting for Carlisle Foodbank where Stephanie Humes and the team do an excellent job in supporting our local community. We also provided sponsor for their new banner, which […]

All three of our new machines are now successfully in place, software is up and running and the shop is looking good…if we do say so ourselves! Training has been ongoing this week, apprentices Daniel Strick and Joseph Broadley are shown training on the Puma GT2600 lathe machine below.

This morning our MD Sean Saunders met with Tom Tugendhat, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and rising star within the Conservative Party and local MP John Stevenson alongside other local Cumbrian company leaders over a business breakfast in Carlisle. General discussions included local economic growth, challenges concerning people development and skills, and retaining talent in […]

New Investment – Kalmar Forklift with a 17T lifting capability! It’s road legal, which enables it to travel between our two manufacturing sites at Kingstown Industrial Estate, Carlisle and we’re also looking to extend our workshop capability further in the near future.   Lee Murthwaite (pictured) from our Stores team is one of our employees […]

The second and third of our recent machine investments have arrived today, a Doosan DNM 5700 CNC Milling machine and Doosan Puma GT 2600 Lathe machine. The DNM 5700 is slightly smaller than the DNM 6700 that arrived a couple of weeks ago, yet is still a very impressive machine! It has a table size […]

Last week we took delivery of our new Doosan DNM 6700 CNC Milling machine, a great addition to our successful Machine Shop. The machine has a table size of 1500mm x 670mm that travels up to 1300mm, a maximum weight of 1300kg, spindle power of 18.5kW with a max. speed of 8000rpm and a 30 […]

Recently we were delighted to engage with our Client at our workshops in Carlisle on their ‘People with Purpose’ interviews about the ongoing work on the SIXEP Continuity Project (SCP). The interview gives a shop floor workers personal view of the SCP, their involvement with the project and a glimpse of some of the exiting […]

Our Apprentice Open Evening was excellent! We met a lot of great young talent from the local area, and hopefully some of our future Apprentices!   We were also delighted to welcome John Stevenson MP! John is an ambassador for local young talent and runs the yearly Skills Fair for School and Collage leavers.   

Here at Bendalls we are passionate about developing young talent, and this week we were delighted to welcome Josh Stirling for his Dream Placement week. Josh is pictured below (front, second from the left) with our current Apprentices and has given the following statement: ‘I started studying A-Level Maths, Physics and Design Technology in September […]