Seb: Everything that comes to us in the workshop is laser cut and pressed. From here we cut and press the material to assemble the final products. We do this by welding, sanding and buffing the materials to achieve the final product. Another task we do is all the forming for the pipe work that goes on.

B – My brother and dad did this sort of work, alongside taking engineering as a subject in school. I found this subject very interesting, and then progressed from there to an apprenticeship working in fabrication.

S – I was originally a mechanic then moved to working here at Supreme as a production fabricator. I started off doing work experience in the Supreme workshop, then I found myself doing a bit of 4-wheel drive fabrication work. This work then progressed into my current apprenticeship, and I haven’t stopped since.

S – One thing I enjoy seeing is when a flat sheet of metal comes through and ends up as a finished product.  We have been able to visit a customer and see the parts we made on their machines.  We also went to the Fieldays and saw machines there with our parts added to them

B – For me it is the satisfaction. I do a lot of sanding, so you have to make everything nice and smooth, and that is a task which is satisfying. Getting to see the whole process through and having the nice, finished product at the end

Seb: We make a whole bunch of different parts. We create larger parts (like the size of a car bonnet) for machinery through to smaller parts like a 3mm cover. Our focus is on the sheet metal parts that create a bigger product, rather than heavy engineering. Overall, there is now around 500 different parts that we will make.

Bjorn: These parts are a range of different sizes. The biggest being slightly over a metre, and roughly 600mm wide. These larger parts can weigh up to 30-40 kgs, and then on the other hand you also could be making tiny little pin heads.

S – I am thinking of going through to an advanced trade at level 5 and continuing with my training.

S – I have learnt a whole lot about drawing, which goes along trigonometry skills learnt in school such as the Pythagorean theorem”. I have also learnt about lifting permits, health and safety permits, and working in confined spaces.

B – Health and safety protocol is a big thing I have learnt so far.

B – I personally like using the laser cutting machines.

S – There are so many great things about working at Supreme.  It is good having the ability to do laser cutting in-house. This means not having to wait for someone external, or long wait times dealing with another supplier. This makes it easy for re cuts and one-off job work. We also have a lot of people come here to get their stuff cut. There are also good people around the place that we work alongside.