About Ironvale
A toolroom that grew into a factory.
We started with two mills and a promise to hold the number on the drawing. Twenty-four years on, the promise is the same and the floor is bigger.
People on site
Factory floor
In business
Active OEM customers
Our history
Twenty-four years, in six lines.
- 2002Founded by toolmakers Ruth and Callum Aske in a 400 m² unit with two manual mills.
- 2008First fibre laser installed. Sheet metal becomes half of turnover.
- 2014ISO 9001 certified. Move to Kilnbeck Industrial Estate, 6,200 m².
- 2019AS9100 approval and first five-axis cell. Aerospace work begins.
- 2023Six robotic weld cells and in-house powder coat line commissioned.
- 202638 machines, 142 people, two shifts and a third for lights-out machining.
Principles
Three rules on the wall by the door.
1
Say the real lead time
If the honest answer is 12 days, we say 12 days. Our 99 percent on-time figure comes from not overpromising.
2
Flag it before we cut it
Every RFQ gets an engineer's read. A drawing error found in DFM costs nothing. Found on the floor, it costs a week.
3
Show the data
Inspection reports, weld logs and torque records are part of the product, not an extra.
Leadership
Ruth Aske
Managing Director
Toolmaker. Still walks the floor every morning at 6:45.
Dev Malhotra
Head of Engineering
Fifteen years in aerospace machining. Owns every DFM review.
Hannah Pryce
Quality Manager
Lead auditor. Runs the CMM lab and the customer audit calendar.
Tomasz Wrona
Production Director
Came up as a welder. Schedules the floor like a chess match.
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