Turnell & Odell looks to the future

When asked what the biggest changes Turnell & Odell has witnessed in its 101 year history managing director Clive Odell states simply – electric motors and cutting tools. It is the latter that is allowing this sub-contract engineer to continue to grow and develop into its second century.

For a company that pre-dates high speed steel cutting tools, cutting its teeth on carbon steel tooling, and before that the blacksmith’s anvil, the changes in cutting tool technology Wellingborough-based Turnell & Odell has witnessed have been nothing short of amazing. In fact, Clive Odell continues to be amazed: “Just when you think you are on top of cutting tool development and are producing components at the optimum speeds and feeds along comes another development. Such is the pace of development, which we have to change our thought processes and call on the expertise of specialists in order to maintain our advantages.”

At one time Turnell & Odell was a machine tool manufacturer, with emphasis on woodworking machinery under the Wellin brand.