AGM Services and Junair Spraybooths are proud to announce that they are the main sponsors of the BEN Lynwood to Paris Charity cycle ride, taking place on the 15th to the 19th June 2016. The 5 day 500km cycle ride will see the cyclists peddling to Paris from the BEN Headquarters at Lynwood.
BEN is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to making positive differences to people’s lives in the automotive industry. BEN is proud to offer lifetime practical help, support and advice to those who work, or have worked in the automotive and related industries, and to their family dependents. In addition to its wide range of free confidential information, advice and support services, BEN operates highly-regarded care centres at various locations throughout the UK plus a day centre in Coventry.
Neil Morrison, Managing Director at AGM Services and Junair Spraybooths, comments, “We agreed to become main sponsor for the event as we’ve heard great things about the work that BEN has done for the industry over the years. It’s a fantastic cause. I’m just pleased that we can do our bit to help out.”
As well as being the main sponsor, a team of cyclists from both AGM Services and Junair Spraybooths have joined together to raise funds for BEN by participating in the Lynwood to Paris charity cycle ride.
Cycling from AGM Services are; AGM Services Founder, Julie Morrison and Fiona Morrison, Operations Manager.
Cycling from Junair are; Junair Founder and Managing Director, Neil Morrison and Jordan Young, Assistant Production Manager.
Julie Morrison, comments “As soon as I signed up for the event I joined a spinning class. As well as that I’m cycling around the local area as much as I can. The event still seems like a long way off but I’m sure it’ll be here before I know it and I want to make sure I’m ready and trained when it does come around. The sights en route will be amazing and ending up in one of Europe’s most iconic capital cities will be the icing on the cake.”
Fiona Morrison comments, “I’m looking forward to the challenge. I’m under no illusion that it will be tough but the thought that I can do something to help those who have found themselves in difficult circumstances will spur me on. I’ve always enjoyed sports and am a member of the local hockey team, playing defence in competitive matches on a regular basis. It’s a once in a lifetime challenge, hopefully I’ll do the team proud.”
Neil Morrison comments, “I started training as soon as I signed up for the event. I live in quite a rural area so it’s great for training outdoors. I’ve always enjoyed cycling so this is a great excuse to get out and about.
I know the cycle ride itself will be a tough five days, but I’m aiming to get as ready as possible with my training. I’m hoping the scenery en route and the promise of a large glass (or two) of red in Paris will soften the blow.”
Jordan Young comments, “I love cycling and quite often go out on my bike at weekends with my wife and kids. I love the idea of the challenge and I’m stepping up my training so I’ll be ready for the 500km. It’s a fantastic cause that we’re riding for, and knowing that I’m doing it for my industry colleagues will give me the drive I need to complete the cycle.”
If you would like to help AGM’s drive to raise funds for BEN, you can do so by donating to the cause on our Just Giving page. Find out here, how you can generously give to the charity. Or, if you would like any more information about the BEN Lynwood to Paris Charity cycle ride at all, simply call our team on +44(0) 1706 363585.
AGM Services is pleased to introduce Seth Campbell, the latest member of the spray booth service and maintenance team. Seth and his assistant will provide spraybooth maintenance and servicing across the East Midlands and South Yorkshire regions, as well as being on hand for the speedy breakdown assistance that AGM services provide.
Seth is the latest appointment in AGM’s growth strategy and brings the number of directly employed service and maintenance teams up to 10; the UK’s largest network of spraybooth service and maintenance engineers.
As with all new recruits Seth has been put through an extensive training program, including on the job training with our senior engineers and has also undergone the many certifications including GAS Safe, PASMA and Manual handling to ensure the safety of our engineers and customers alike. Seth is now a fully qualified member of our spraybooth service and maintenance team.
AGM Sales Director Wesley Young commented on the appointment of Seth Campbell. “Seth has shown great aptitude in his on the job training and is a very conscientious member of the team. Given his previous experience he’s sailed through his training and I have high hopes for him in the future. Our growth strategy is coming to fruition, we’ve had several new appointments in 2015 and with more planned for 2016 it’s proving to be an extremely exciting time for us at AGM.”
Seth Campbell commented on his new position: “I’m looking forward to being out on the road with my team. The training period was intense but definitely worth it. I now have the knowledge to carry out my job safely and efficiently. It’s good to know that I have the back up of a wider team should it be necessary.”
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10 years ago this November Ian Mather came to AGM Services as an engineer’s mate, working out in the field maintaining, fixing and servicing spraybooths across the country. After 8 years of loyal service Ian was promoted from an engineer’s mate to become the AGM Stores Controller.
Ian now controls the stores, ensuring that AGM’s national network of engineers have sufficient stocks of the most common spraybooth replacement parts on their vans, and sending out replacement filters and parts overnight where necessary.
At the annual engineers meeting, as a token of appreciation and to thank Ian for his dedication to AGM Services Ian was presented with a bottle of Champagne and a personalised gift.
Wesley Young, Sales Director, comments, “Ian has always been a committed and reliable member of staff and his thorough attitude means he’s the ideal person to control our stores. On behalf of AGM Services I would like to thank Ian for his dedication and hard work; I look forward to working with him for many more years to come.”
Ian Mather, Stores Controller, comments; “It has been a pleasure working at AGM Services. Over the past 10 years I’ve seen the company grow and evolve to become a UK wide spraybooth service and maintenance provider, I’m proud to have been a part of that. I’d like to thank all my colleagues at AGM Services for all their help and support over the past 10 years.”
To find out more about AGM Services contact the experienced team on 01706 363 585 or email Sales@agm-services.co.uk.
On the 27th of November the entire network of AGM service engineers and their teams met at the Rochdale head office as part of their regular training and communications.
Following a team breakfast the AGM engineers were updated and trained on the latest developments in the new customer information portal. A secure portal specifically designed to manage spraybooth documentation, certification and service & maintenance history in one safe, centralised location. The portal also offers other significant benefits including streamlining paperwork for the engineers, freeing up their time so they can be more reactive to urgent call outs.
Representatives from other suppliers were invited to provide training to ensure that the engineers are up to speed with the products and have the opportunity to ask any questions direct to the manufacturer.
The entire fleet of AGM vans were subjected to checks including their stock levels. AGM vans are kept fully stocked with the most common spray booth spare parts, ensuring the level of first time fixes is one of the best in the industry.
The health and safety of our staff is very important to us. Every member of the team had their PPE thoroughly checked from hi visibility jackets & safety boots to breathing apparatus, anything that was found to be substandard was immediately reordered and replaced. Equipment checks were carried out to ensure that each engineer has a complete set of fully functional, fully calibrated tools.
Training on the latest spray booth applications was undertaken, including the latest industrial applications, ensuring that the spray booth engineers are equipped with the knowledge to handle any eventuality.
To finish off the day, as Christmas is drawing closer, the AGM team descended in full force on the Belle Vue Dog track, to enjoy a night of fun and festivities.
Wesley Young, Sales Director commented “It’s the only day of the year where we get to have all the team in the same place at the same time, as engineers are out on the road most of the time, and to meet up like this reinforces those lines of communication. It’s also an ideal platform for extra training, it’s important to ensure that our team have all the training and back up necessary to perform their jobs efficiently and effectively.”
For more information about AGM Services email the team at sales@agm-services.co.uk or call 01706 363 585.
AGM Services would like to welcome Steve Wilson, who has recently joined the team as Operations Coordinator. Over the past 18 months AGM have enjoyed a period of sustained growth and this appointment complements and strengthens the existing resource in the operations department ensuring that AGM retain their position as the leading Spraybooth service and maintenance provider in the UK.
Within his new role, Steve will be responsible for the day to day coordination of our ever expanding nationwide network of spray booth service and maintenance engineers, ensuring our high service standards and rapid response times are achieved.
Commenting on the appointment, AGM Services, Sales Director Wesley Young said, “Due to our ongoing growth this is a necessary appointment for AGM Services and we are delighted to have Steve on board. Over the past 18 months we’ve focused on expanding our network of engineers throughout the country. This appointment enables us to continue providing the first-rate level of office support that goes hand in hand with running such a large team of engineers.”
Speaking on his new role, Steve said “I am delighted to be joining the team at AGM Services, I’ve already had a hands on experience of a spray booth service to gain an understanding of what the company is about. I look forward to becoming a valued member of the Operations team.”
AGM Services offer spray booth servicing, maintenance and breakdown cover throughout the UK. A variety of spray booth maintenance and service packages are available ranging from one-off spray booth services right thought to fully comprehensive contracts tailored to suit customer requirements. AGM Services can provide aftercare for the life of your spray booth equipment, advising on the best type of filtration and supplying spray booth filters. In addition to routine spray booth services AGM can also assist and advise on all COSHH, H&SE, BSI Kite Mark and Vehicle Manufacturer approval requirements, from legislative testing (Mist Clearance, LEV Testing, Breathing Air Quality Testing) to spray booth performance checks such as lighting lux levels.
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AGM has taken part in apprenticeship schemes for over 10 years now and it has proven a very valuable approach to recruiting, long term, committed employees. The bespoke on the job training can help to form career opportunities that can otherwise be tricky to recruit for, and is vital to continue the planned growth for the company.
AGMs most successful story is spraybooth service and maintenance engineer Rob Menzies, who started as an apprentice in 2004, now 11 years on Rob has progressed his career to become one of our most experienced and talented spray booth engineers. His commitment and dedication to his training was clear from day one, so much so that Rob will now be offering part of the on the job training for our latest apprentices.
Rob Menzies commented “I started here over 10 years ago as an apprentice myself. I’m only too happy to help others in achieving what I have achieved. AGM offer constant training ensuring that I’m up to date with the latest technologies and ensure that my health and safety is always front of mind. I look forward to showing James and Joseph the ropes and hopefully they’ll follow in my footsteps.”
James and Joseph will be required to assist AGM’s lead Engineers to carry out on the job training such as wiring, commissioning, breakdowns and fault finding. In addition to this they will have to attend college on day release to study various course modules including health and safety in the workplace. Course work will be required as well and James and Joseph’s progress will be closely monitored by their course tutor.
The apprenticeship is 3 years long and on completion, not only will they have a good grounding in an engineering career but they will also gain a BTEC Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. They’ll then progress to courses and training that will lead to GAS Safe qualifications that will in turn see them ready to lead their own spray booth service team.
AGM Sales Director Wesley Young commented on the appointment of James and Joseph. “We have a long term vision for growth at AGM Services, and are really pleased to be employing apprentices again. Over our 21 years in business we’ve had a lot of success investing in youth; hopefully these apprentices and others we intend to employ in the coming years will eventually become key members of our engineering team.
Our spraybooth engineers are some of the most highly qualified and skilled in the country, we pride ourselves on maintaining this by providing on-going training for all our engineers to keep them up to speed with latest Spraybooth developments as well as ongoing changes to COSHH legislation. These new apprenticeships are part of AGM’s commitment to continued growth and are two of several strategic appointments already in place this year. The aim is to further strengthen our existing national network of directly employed engineers, enabling us to maintain and improve the high levels of customer care and expeditious response which we are renowned for.”
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AGM Services, the UK’s leading spraybooth service and maintenance provider, are proud to announce that they have once again passed their ISO 9001 audit with flying colours. This is the 14th consecutive year that AGM Services have gained this significant accolade.
ISO 9001 is a globally recognised management system based on a number of quality management principles including a strong focus on customer service and continuous improvement. The nature of the quality management system ensures consistency and quality of service for customers therefore improving efficiency and customer satisfaction levels.
Wesley Young, Sales Director AGM Services commented. “It’s fantastic news that once again we sailed through our audit, not only that but there were no observations or non-conformances. AGM have always had a customer centric attitude, and the team are constantly undergoing training to ensure the quality of our service is second to none. This accolade is testament to the hard work that the team here at AGM have put in.”
AGM Services established their ISO system in 2001 and has continued to implement and improve on the processes that were initially applied. The ISO system ensures not only the productivity and efficiency of AGM but also benefits customers with the consistency and quality of the service they receive. AGM have been awarded a number of contracts based on their ISO 9001 approval, proving its value to all concerned.
AGM Services have a national network of spraybooth service and maintenance engineers, to ensure fully qualified engineers are always local to you. For more information about AGM’s service and maintenance packages call the team on 01706 363 585 or send us an email and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
As its breast cancer awareness month staff at the AGM Services head office have joined together for their now traditional fund raising raffle in aid of ‘wear it pink day’. The tradition started 12 years ago and as usual staff came to work dressed in pink as well as holding a pink raffle! The day itself raised a total of £140 for the cause.
Faye Smith, Operations Administrator commented. “We take part in this event every year and once again it was a great success.”
Ellie Adam, Senior Fundraising Products Manager at Breast Cancer Now, said, “wear it pink is back this year and it’s bigger and pinker than ever! We are so pleased to have AGM Services take part in wear it pink again. Each year we’re amazed by the number of people who not only wear it pink for the day but who go all out to help us raise awareness of breast cancer. We’re really grateful to every single person who takes part and donates. It’s really inspiring to see so many people having a good time raising money for life-saving breast cancer research.”
AGM Services operate a national network of fully qualified spraybooth engineers. If you would like to find out more information regarding our spray booth service and maintenance contracts contact us direct on 01706 363 585, email the team at sales@agm-services.co.uk or make your enquiry via the online contact form provided on our website.
Every year, wear it pink raises around £2 million during breast cancer awareness month. The money is used to fund world class research for top scientists in the field.
Last week AGM services set up their exhibition stand at the Ford Impact conference at the Donington conference centre. The conference and exhibition took place over the 22nd and 23rd October and was deemed a huge success by the AGM Services team.
This year the event was bigger and better than ever and welcomed 740 visitors over the 2 day period. A variety of key note speakers addressed industry topics including vehicle technology, cyber security & 2016… the year ahead.
AGM Services took the opportunity to showcase their new customer information portal at the conference which was extremely well received by the attendees. The customer portal is a market leading, secure portal specifically designed to manage spraybooth documentation, certification and service and maintenance history in one safe, centralised location.
The custom built portal enables easy access to crucial documentation and reports such as test results, certificates, service schedules and bespoke reports. All the relevant records are just a mouse click away, ready for audits and saving precious time locating files.
Wesley Young Sales Director AGM Services commented, “The Ford Impact, Vizion 20|20 exhibition was an excellent platform to launch our market leading portal, it’s the first of its kind in our industry and we’ve generated plenty of interest for it at the Ford Impact show. The show was a resounding success and I’m sure we’ll see you all again next year!”
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If you would like to speak to a member of the team to discuss how our market leading customer portal can benefit you, or to discuss our spray booth service and maintenance packages contact us direct on 01706 363 585 or email us at sales@agm-services.co.uk
AGM are thrilled to introduce their NEW Customer information portal. This is a secure portal specifically designed to manage spraybooth documentation, certification and service & maintenance history in one safe, centralised location.
The sophisticated customer information portal enables instant access to vital information such as your service reports, equipment registers, quotations and management reports for all your equipment maintained by AGM Services. All documentation is just a click away, ready for HSE or manufacturers’ audits and saving precious time locating files.
Its user friendly and simple to navigate menu indicates when the next service is due. Breakdown call-outs or services can be easily scheduled. The instant that servicing or maintenance is completed, documentation is available to view and download via a unique login on the information portal.
Wesley Young, AGM Services comments “We’re really excited about the benefits that this new portal has to offer our customers. Having centralised storage for documentation will free up time for our customers to concentrate on the things that matter and yet still have the all-important documentation to hand when it’s required. When we commissioned the portal we wanted to make sure that it not only stored service certificates but that it also provided a whole host of other facilities such as KPI reporting, invoicing and service scheduling. In addition to that it also streamlines the paper work that our technicians are required to produce freeing up their time so they can be more reactive to urgent call outs. It’s a win win situation.”
AGMs customer information portal is a convenient, easy access, tool for independent Bodyshops and larger groups alike. Call us on 01706 363 585 or email us at sales@agm-services.co.uk to learn more about using the customer information portal.
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