A&M EDM promotes four managers to directors

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Smethwick-based precision engineering company A&M EDM has promoted four of its managers to director positions as it seeks out future development. The promotions are: Lee Finch, production director EDM; Stuart Talbot, production director CNC; Gary Surman, technical director CNC; and Arthur Watts, technical director EDM.

A&M is a manufacturer of precision components and tooling for aerospace, automotive, manufacturing assembly and motorsport customers. The company’s workforce has doubled since 2013, to 70 staff, with annual sales of over £6 million.

The directors will work with managing director Mark Wingfield on future strategy, and assume responsibility for day-to-day operations across the company’s two factories.

Finch and Watts are responsible for A&M’s spark and wire-erosion EDM output. A&M started business in 2002 as an EDM contact shop and now offers one of the largest commercial EDM services in the UK.

Talbot and Surman will lead A&M’s growing precision machining capabilities. The company currently has 29 CNC milling and turning machines manufacturing prototypes and production runs of components and tools.

Says Wingfield: “All four have made an invaluable contribution to A&M’s success as managers; they are all talented engineers who will ensure we continue to prosper and deliver quality components as fast as possible for our customers.”