Race against the clock to manufacture flares Olympics

Olympic torch begins journey across Britain, May 19 / May next on its way to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, where he held the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in July 27.

In preparation for the crew that works factory "Premier Group" in Coventry, around the clock for the manufacture of 11,150 to carry on the torch rotates about 8 thousand people during the long journey.

So I need the factory to the additional labor amounted to fifty people for the manufacture of charge required.

Does not reveal the factory from the outside what is happening inside, but some signs were covered in the guidelines under security measures, which included the police to protect the transfer of twelve burners of a number of places.

Also used blades and special locks to keep the places of manufacture and storage.

The director of manufacturing Guise Halton The most important of these has an order by the Company.

Halton said: "The work was steady, although the manufacturing sector was suffering from a severe blow because of the recession. And shows that we can do a variety of things, and we can do other things."

The burners are made of folded sheet aluminum and cut using a laser operating around the clock since November 2011.

The company has currently 9000 torch in various stages of production, and uses a laser holes in the work of torchlight.

The burners are sent to another place, to be designed in the form of triple cone and then returned to the place I put it to the 2012 Olympics logo.

There are in every area of ​​the flame of a stove and a gas cylinder, and then the burners will be sent to another company for the lining and polished nickel before being transported to a place of brilliant gold paint.

Says Gary Mitchell, supervisor manufacturing "This is the biggest contract I'm working on, and it is an honor for the selection of Coventry to do so."