For more than 20 years, the partnership with J L Goor Machinery has been a success story in the Irish polymer sector. Mullingar-based J L Goor Machinery is the Irish partner for Fanuc’s Roboshot range of all-electric injection moulding machines, with over 700 units installed in Irish industry.
J L Goor’s offering for Roboshot fit-out, installation and support has grown in scale and complexity over the past two decades. The company has recently opened its 1,200m2 Centre of Excellence in Mullingar, which includes manufacturing space for electrical design, installation, testing, fabrication and machinery customisation, plus a dedicated training and mould testing facility.
“Since the establishment of Fanuc Ireland in 2022, we have been committed to supporting our Irish customers with on the ground sales, service and technical support, and J L Goor have been an important partner in this customer offering,” said Conor O’Kelly, Fanuc Ireland office manager. “Ireland is a key territory for Fanuc globally and our J L Goor partnership has enabled us to support customers with a moulding footprint in Ireland, Europe and the US. We are acknowledging that many of Fanuc & J L Goor’s customers have both a polymer moulding requirement as well as a metals machining requirement, in key sectors like medical device and aerospace manufacturing. It’s therefore a natural evolution of our relationship and we expect J L Goor to become as strategic a partner for our machining customers as they are for our moulding customers.”
Phil Watters, managing director at J L Goor, commented: “Manufacturers in Ireland are world class operations in critical industries where zero defect quality and compliant production is demanded. They base their manufacturing on highly reliable equipment, supported by local expertise. Fanuc and J L Goor have been providing this service to manufacturers in Ireland for decades now. We are delighted to extend this service to another key industry in Ireland – precision engineering – using the Robodrill product range.”
Meeting market demand
To meet expected demand, J L Goor have appointed a salesperson experienced in the machining sector, Noel Bracken, who stated: “There’s real potential for the Robodrill to transform drilling, milling, cutting and polishing applications for companies in sectors such as medical devices, aerospace and precision component manufacturing. I’m looking forward to representing the Fanuc range and showing manufacturers the benefits it can bring to their operation in terms of increased productivity, reduced costs and energy savings.”
PIC CAP: (Left to right): Conor O’Kelly, office manager, Fanuc Ireland, and Padraic McDonnell, general manager – service & projects, J L Goor.
