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FSE Group was established in its present form in January 2001 when Enfield Foundry Holdings Ltd merged its commercial foundry (Enfield Foundry) and pattern shop (Crockett-Orwin Patterns) with the Essex-based Finch Seaman Foundry, Nautilus Fine Art Foundry and AATi Ltd makers of metal stairway products. Enfield Foundry was moved from Waltham Cross where it had been since 1932, to Braintree, in a more modern factory suitable for a progressive foundry-based engineering firm.
From 2002 to 2006 further re-structuring of FSE Group companies took place with Nautilus Fine Art Foundry absorbing Burleighfield Fine Arts (High Wycombe) and Morris Singer (Hampshire), calling itself Morris Singer Art Founders Limited. Glyn Elshaw, Mervyn George and Enfield Holdings now own FSE Group, which in turn holds 10% of the Morris Singer Art Foundry.
Finch Seaman Enfield Group (FSEG) now has a unique concentration of cast metal product facilities and skills on one site at Braintree in Essex, near to the Stansted International Airport Terminal.
Future plans now include;
- the development of the commercial casting service (FSE Foundry) with an even wider range of metals produced at Braintree, associated with bulk supplies from our Chinese foundry partners,
- the widening of markets for the AATi anti-slip stairway product range, and the introduction of new products,
- support of the independent team at MS Art Founders in their ongoing expansion and plans to become one of the premier European art foundries.
CURRENT GROUP STRUCTURE
Finch Seaman Enfield Group Limited (FSE Group) is a management company which provides accountancy/marketing and other services to the FSE Group companies. David Bisset is Managing Director, and Terry Martin the Accountant.
Finch Seaman Enfield Limited (FSE Foundry) commercial foundry is run by Glyn Elshaw, Managing Director, who joined Enfield Foundry in 1975, and later became the Commercial Director. Ivan Moore, who was a Partner of Finch Seaman Foundry prior to the merger is now part of the foundry management team headed by Bill Kirby, formerly the Enfield Foundry Manager. The Pattern Shop, formerly a separate company, is now amalgamated and in the same building as the foundry.
Antislip Antiwear Treads International Ltd (AATI) manufactures and markets the cast metal stair nosing range of product widely used in the London Underground network. AATi Managing Director, Mervyn George, has played a major role in this development since 1992, supported by Manager Rob Oxborough.
COMPONENT COMPANY HISTORIES
Enfield Foundry Company Limited. Founded in 1932 by DG Bisset, at the end of his foundry career following that of his father's since 1836 on Clydebank. His son Graham was awarded an OBE for his services to the industry in 1970, and subsequently Michael and his son David, FSE Group Managing Director complete the 5th generation of Bissets in the industry. David also has a major shareholding in Clementsmarine, who's Luton Foundry cast propellers and make marine equipment. Until 2001 the Company was located in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, and built their recent reputation on producing specialist high-conductivity copper, non-ferrous and iron alloy castings.
Finch & Seaman was started in 1948 by two former employees of Lake and Elliot Foundry, Wilf Finch and Bill Seaman, who's son, Rod, is now the Managing Director of Morris Singer Art Founders Ltd, and was until March 2006, shareholder and Director of the FSEGroup. The company produced jobbing castings in aluminium and copper-rich alloys, and moved to the current site from East Street in Braintree in 1985. Ivan Moore who joined Rod as a Partner works in the FSE Foundry.
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