As a female lead company, we find it disappointing that operating as a 50% female team is rare in our industry and a number of sectors we work with. We are very proud of the fact that we are a team of 50% female staff. We wanted to share a little more about the women who make up our ever-growing injection moulding team.
Sally
Where were you born? Luton, England
How long have you worked at GCP? 4 Years
What's your favourite way to relax? Watching or reading True Crime. I also like making cakes.
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? Sir David Attenborough. The man's a legend!
GCP Contribution: Sally spent the first 4 years of her time with us looking after 'out-work' which is a way of staff working from home, often to de-spru parts and pack. 4 months ago Sally joined the team full time and is currently working in a number of different areas of our injection moulding company from machine operating to quality control on automotive badges.
Becky
Where were you born? Banbury, England
How long have you worked at GCP? 2 Years
What's your favourite way to relax? With family or by the coast with family, with a vodka and lemonade!
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? Grandparents
GCP Contribution: Becky is primarily involved in assembly and quality checking of our injection moulded car badges. This requires a sharp eye for detail and good hand-eye coordination. Depending on the job, automotive badges can vary in finish and application requirements. From chrome car badges through to resin badges each part undergoes high standards of quality control.
Wendy
Where were you born? Oxford, England
How long have you worked at GCP? 12 Years
What's your favourite way to relax? Gardening
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? Rod Stewart! Or maybe you, Kiron.
GCP Contribution: Apart from Wendy having exceptional taste in dinner guests, she's also our most experienced team member involved in our hand finished automotive badging. Wendy is currently responsible for training our newer members of staff on quality control and assembly for all automotive badges. Having experienced team members like Wendy is invaluable to ensure that her knowledge and experience get passed down to new team members. We pride ourselves on our high-quality parts and it's important that each member of our team also takes pride in this. Wendy is going to be retiring at the end of this year, we'll be sad to see her leave but no doubt she'll be popping in regularly to make sure her standards are still in place.
Charly
Where were you born? Northampton, England
How long have you worked at GCP? 3 Years
What's your favourite way to relax? Knitting whilst listening to Taylor Swift
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? The CEO of Ticket Master, so I can secure more Taylor Swift tickets.
GCP Contribution: Charly joined our office team to assist with order processing, audits and marketing. Aside from playing Taylor Swift at any given opportunity, Charly helps to ensure that we are able to manufacture products for a variety of different industries via our ISO9001 audit and designated client audits. For many of our clients we are producing sustainable injection moulded products for industries such as FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods.) These products need to be moulded in a clean environment with high standards of traceability.
Daria
Where were you born? Krakow, Poland
How long have you worked at GCP? 3 weeks
What's your favourite way to relax? I like reading and taking walks with my dog. I also enjoy meditation, yoga and eating delicious food.
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? Miley Cyrus
GCP Contribution: Daria is one of our newest members who is training in various of our business to get a full understanding of the world of an injection moulder. There are a variety of products that require different levels of quality inspection and getting a good all round experience of different jobs is important within plastic manufacturing.
Csilla
Where were you born? Szabadka, Hungary
How long have you worked at GCP? 2 Months
What's your favourite way to relax? Gardening, Walking, Baking
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? My Husband
GCP Contribution: Csilla is another one of our new members who was hired to help look after quality control on a number of our sustainable injection moulded projects. She is also getting experience within a variety of different product lines to enhance her skillset and understanding of different client and product requirements. As you can imagine there are different QC requirements when comparing eco-friendly drinkware to chrome car badges and it's vital that our team are experienced in as many different products as possible.
Sue
Where were you born? Banbury
How long have you worked at GCP? 24 years
What's your favourite way to relax? Doing diamond painting
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? Ronan Keating
GCP Contribution: Sue is one of the longest-standing members of the team and has seen the business progress through the years from moulding products for McDonalds Happy Meals to creating OEM vehicle parts. Sue's area of expertise lies within our finishing department where she is responsible for hot tip foiling and pad printing. Over recent years Sue has been vital in trialling various finishing applications on eco friendly moulded products. Due to the variety of materials that we mould from virgin polymers, bio-based polymers and compostable materials, we have to also trial different applications and materials in our finishing department.
Alex
Where were you born? Slovakia
How long have you worked at GCP? 4.5 Years
What's your favourite way to relax? Reading, Exercising, Roller Skating
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? With my parents
GCP Contribution: Alex is one of our more experienced bespoke car badge inspectors and applicators. A large percentage of our business is for the automotive sector varying from ABS chrome-plated badges through to car wheel caps and sustainable interior trim. Alex is highly skilled and experienced in handling and inspecting automotive product lines.
Bal
Where were you born? Maidenhead, England
How long have you worked at GCP? Too Long! 25 years
What's your favourite way to relax? Tending to my allotment
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be? Non-living - Griselda Blanco, I have a lot of questions I'd like to ask her. Living - Stormzy
GCP Contribution: Last but certainly not least, our MD! Bal was part of the team that founded the business and has been instrumental in building the team to what it is now. Bal is from a HR background and when she took over as MD her goal was to build a team for the future where every member of staff could benefit from the growth of our injection moulding company.
