Traditional industry: The cast metals sector has increased its use of automation but is still labour intensive

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relationship was starting to change," says Parker. "Our members were noticing that some of their old customers were starting to carry out reviews and had come to the conclusion that they would look over here again." One company that has seen work that it had lost to Chinese foundries starting to come back again is Batley Foundry, the West Yorkshire producer of grey and ductile iron castings which has been in existence for nearly 100 years. It claims to have seen a complete reversal among its customers of the trend towards outsourcing, with quality being the underpinning factor.