Race for Life

In a world where greed, fraud and general dishonesty is being reported in newspapers, seemingly every day, it is refreshing to be reminded of all the millions of unselfish people there are in the world. These are people who care about fellow human beings. There are so many people around the world with busy jobs & lives who still find time to quietly help other people in charitable ways. These people everywhere in the world should be thanked and applauded.

One such person is our own Linda Martin at Omega Foundry Machinery Ltd in Peterborough
Linda has a very busy job and life but she entered a a run called “Race for Life” held May 15th 2009 in the grounds of the very famous stately home Burghley House near Stamford in Lincolnshire, England. Almost 4000 women of all ages gave up their Sunday morning and laced up their running shoes to take part in aid of Cancer Research.

Race for Life has raised over £100 million since 2004 for the charity and this years total is expected to be a staggering £46 million. Linda herself raised £750 on this one day.

So well done and thank you to Linda and well done and thank you everyone who takes part in important fund raising anywhere in the world.

OMEGA FOUNDRY MACHINERY LTD
competes at the
Peterborough Dragon Boat Festival 2010

Held on Sunday 20th June 2010
River Nene,Town Bridge, Peterborough

Team Captain Lloyd Marshall pushed us to 4th position overall which was one place higher than last year. So we are improving!
Many thanks go to all who competed. As usual all monies raised from the event went to the Sports Aid Foundation

OMEGA Agents’ Conference in Istanbul
13th and 15th October 2008

The majority of Omega’s worldwide agents attended a very successful conference at the Novotel Hotel in Istanbul. There were 70 delegates from 28 countries at the conference.

There was two days of technical presentations designed to ensure all agents received up to date information regarding Omega products and recent activities in the world market place.

Mark Fenyes – Chairman & Managing Director welcomed delegates to the conference.

Mark invited Ian Bailey of Richards Engineering Ltd, Leicester (which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of OFML) to address the conference to introduce himself and the Richards products to those attending. All Richards products were covered but there was special emphasis on the very successful Thermal Reclamation concept and also the excellent Chromite Separation equipment.

On the second day there was an extremely professional presentation by Mr Hakan Yasar of the Turkish foundry company Entil He showed slides of the brand new superbly planned operation they have just installed using a predominance of equipment supplied by Omega. It had been hoped to visit the foundry but logistically it was difficult due to its location to the south of Istanbul. Nevertheless all delegates were very impressed by presentation.

The two days were informative but also very enjoyable, enabling delegates from various countries to meet and share knowledge.

As well as the formal side of the conference there was a very enjoyable social side to the proceedings. There was a Ladies programme for the partners of delegates not attending the technical presentations. This included guided tours of all the major attractions in Istanbul. All the Ladies thoroughly enjoyed a very full but interesting time in Istanbul.

On the Tuesday night there was a visit for everyone to a restaurant in the Fish Bazaar area of the city including typical traditional Turkish entertainment of music and dancing.The fish was superb and a great time was had by all.

Our final evening was spent on a boat cruising on the Bosphorus enjoying good food and music. At the end of the night Mark Fenyes picked up the microphone and thanked everyone for participating. He then presented Linda Martin of OFML with a gift to thank for her excellent organisation of the event.

Omega Foundry Machinery Announces the
Aquisition of Richards Engineering Inc.

I am very pleased to announce that Omega Foundry Machinery Ltd has acquired the business and assets of Richards Engineering Inc.

As you may be aware Richards are the market leaders in thermal reclamation systems. They also manufacture sand driers, Chromite separation, shell sand coating plants along with their own range of sand mixers, mechanical reclamation plants, core shooters, etc.

Based in Leicester in the United Kingdom, Richards  was a subsidiary of Vulcan Engineering Inc who are based in the USA. The current product line also includes robotic fettling, grinders, etc. and all of these items will stay with Vulcan and for the short-term will operate out of the existing premises in Leicester on a sub-lease basis to us.

It is my intention to trade as Richards Engineering Ltd. This also means that we will honour any existing agreements that are currently in place such as agencies, manufacturing licences, etc. Initially there may be geographical sales areas where both Omega and Richards are represented by different agents but working in the same market.

As part of the assets we have also acquired the intellectual property and manufacturing rights for the 'Fordath' range of equipment, and it is my intention to resurrect certain product ranges that fall under this banner as I believe it will be a benefit to us in certain markets.

The management and employees of Richards will remain with the company and operate out of the existing premises. I am in particular pleased to announce that Ian Bailey whom has been instrumental in developing their product range will also be retained as Operations Manager.

The management of Omega sees this as a very positive move and one that will consolidate Omega's position in the market place both from an equipment standpoint and geographical sales. 

Mark Fenyes 
Chairman