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Business Development
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Since our last revision of the website there has been much change and expansion.
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Benoil has seen a period of steady growth so that it was becoming difficult to
function smoothly in our existing offices. We have therefore
expanded into new adjacent offices and stores. Our mailing address, telephone
and fax numbers remain unchanged. Now Benoil is into its 21st year in
business. Our order book and turnover continue to grow as our capacity to
handle additional work load has improved.
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At the same time, Benoil has gained the services of Rob Bentham as Projects Manager.
Rob, a mechanical engineer by training, has already gained considerable projects
experience in the automotive industry, having worked most recently for Land Rover.
He is a CAD specialist and also has much experience of working with suppliers on
component development and testing. |
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Many customers will be aware that in 2003 our business was damaged by lightning, which
struck the local telephone exchange and sent a surge through the telephone wires.
Virtually all linked equipment, including the telephone system, modems, computers
and printers, was damaged. We replaced the equipment quickly and soon had some systems
re-installed, but you will not be surprised to know the almost complete restoration took
much time and effort. We thank those who have helped us overcome all the problems and
our customers and suppliers for being forbearing at that time. |
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Meanwhile our ISP had been taken over and changed the procedure for website updating
to a relatively ponderous method. We have in consequence changed our ISP before making
this update. We also moved to broadband connection, which means we easily
handle large files. |
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We were pleased to adopt the SolidWorks CAD system at the end of 2003. This has
improved the development of several new products already. We have also
been able to look in detail at models of projected customer designs and been
effective in developing them. |
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Our ISO 9000 registration was upgraded to ISO 9001:2000 in 2002
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