The Story of Excell: Part 1 – The Origins of Metal Spinning

Max: When did you realise that you wanted to start your own company? What were the reasons behind it?

Lee: I think my idea of running my own company one day stems from a couple of reasons, the first was growing up in a tough environment in my younger childhood days which gave me a real drive to push myself to my limit almost in fear of ever returning to such an environment but also to protect those around me from ever having to experience it, my second influence comes from a particular person who without realising it showed me that you can turn those ambitions into reality if you use your common sense.

Neil: The idea running my business defiantly came from my father, growing up he always had his own businesses, and this was always in my mind whatever I went into I would have my own business.

Max: How did you both come together to start the company?

Lee: My first introduction to Neil was at my previous employer, I remember Neil stepping into a real hostile environment created by the two Directors who could not see eye to eye. What attracted me to Neil was I could see the ambition was there from the offset, a conversation was had between the two of us and we both realised we had similar ideas about what we felt would be the ideal set up within the metal spinning world and the ball started to roll from there.

But thinking back whatever made us feel that another two individuals were a good idea coming together on the back of the warring duo we ’re being employed by at the time I will never know.

Neil: I first met Lee when I joined the company that he worked for and after working alongside Lee on the lathe I knew he had the same line of thought and determination as I did, can’t quite remember who broached the subject at first but once we had talked about setting up on our own, Ideas just snowballed from there.