DRB News
DRB Group raises £302 for Hope House
DRB Group held a bake sale this week to fundraise for Hope House Children's Hospices. We raised £302. Staff, customers and visitors all enjoyed a plethora of home-baked goodies. Amongst those showing off their hidden talents was Greg who baked jam-filled pancakes,...
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DRB achieves rail-industry record for Gmeinder gear casing overhauls
DRB Group increased their rail-industry throughput for gear casings by more than 50% last month. DRB Group is part of an elite cluster of companies accredited to handle safety-critical engineering works for the rail industry. They developed the technology to safely...
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DRB Group makes waves at Surf Snowdonia
DRB was part of the maintenance team for the wave machine at the world’s first artificial surfing lake at Adventure Parc Snowdonia in the Conwy valley. Based on the site of a former aluminium processing plant in North Wales, the six-million-gallon artificial wave pool...
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DRB celebrates double award win with honourable visit
DRB Group welcomed distinguished guests for a factory tour last month, following their double award-win at the 2018 Flintshire in Business Awards. Rt Hon Lord Barry Jones, President of Flintshire In Business; Andy Farrow, Chief Officer, Planning, Environment and...
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Reduce the cost of breakdowns by planning for failure
Adam Hughes, Head of Engineering Operations, explains how planning for failure means that you can reduce the cost of maintenance in the long term. When your factory’s production is interrupted because of a breakdown or component failure, the knock-on effects are...
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Meet the family: Sean Ashton
Sean Ashton is our Quality Engineer. He's been part of the DRB family since 2017. What’s your DRB journey? Before joining DRB, I served my four year apprenticeship as a CNC milling and turning manufacturing engineer, with a focus on inspection. I joined DRB as a...
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