We are a small, family-run engineering business based in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. We’ve been trading since 1994 and offer precision machining services in Deep Hole Boring, Deep Hole Drilling, CNC Honing and CNC Turning.
Our excellent team of 26 people have worked with us to create a facility and level of service that offers our customers everything they need to respond the demands of the industries we serve. These include Petrochemical, Aerospace, Defence, Motorsport, Formula 1, Hydraulics and Medical.
Although our services are specialised, competition is still fierce. Investment in our team, equipment and technology combined with innovation in our processes are our only routes to continuous improvement and competitiveness.
We love our business and the challenges it poses. Each year customers become more demanding, industries request new and increasingly complex quality standards, legislation expands and complicates every decision and Government continually confuse us with a raft of newly-branded departments seemingly designed to either help or hinder us at every opportunity.
And yet we embrace these challenges every day because UK Manufacturing was, and still can be, the greatest in the world and we are passionate about producing products of excellence.
We have some of the finest minds and educational establishments in the world. Many of the finest inventions were thought of and prototyped here in the UK and it’s a real shame that most of the manufacturing of these products has since moved out of the country.
As a business and as an industry, we are willing to overcome the challenges we face. We are willing to invest, learn, adapt and continue to satisfy the ever increasing demands of our industry.
What we need though is the Government and the rest of the country to get behind our industry and help us make the UK what it really is and should be - the heart of manufacturing excellence.
Fair policies on tax, sensible levels of legislation so we and our team are protected but not impeded, simple access to support through streamlined departments and Government agencies and a recognition that this country and its economy cannot return to being dominated by finance and retail alone.
There are many of us within our industry willing to effect the changes required. What we would like is an acknowledgement of our efforts and importance and the removal of the barriers placed before us by previous Governments and legislation.
Andrea Rodney
Director
Hone-All Precision Limited