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News Release from: Biscor
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
PTFE Teflon coated glass and Kevlar
fabrics
2006 sees the 30th anniversary year for Biscor, a leading manufacturer in the UK of PTFE (Teflon ) coated Glass and Kevlar fabrics.
2006 sees the 30th anniversary year for Biscor, a leading manufacturer in the UK of PTFE (Teflon ) coated Glass and Kevlar fabrics Biscor are extremely successful in both the UK and export markets with 55% of the company's production being sent overseas
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Biscor are celebrating with the official launch of their new premises on Friday 9th June from 11.00 am and concluding at around 1.00 pm.
The itinerary will include a short tour of the premises; the Lord Mayor will unveil a plaque presented to Biscor by DuPont to commemorate the event.
This will be followed with a brief speech by Mr Gil Wilkinson, a member of the Management Team at Biscor, Gerry Sutcliffe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs then a buffet lunch.
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"Biscor is now a global player and has demonstrated the drive to provide world class products to our clients', said Gil Wilkinson, Acquisitions and HR Manager who has been with the company for most of its 30 year existence.
'Our 30th Anniversary ceremony denotes a new phase in the company's development and we have invited guests including our suppliers and customers from all over the world' Siobhan Collins Lee, Head of Sales added.
As well as manufacturing the base fabric, Biscor is one of the world's most innovative converters of high performance coated fabrics.
The company employs highly skilled techniques - among them, heat bonding, laminating, machine cutting and sewing with special machines to produce conveyor belts and other fabricated items.
The resultant conveyor belts and adhesive and non-adhesive barrier sealing tapes have unlimited applications in industrial processes: Biscor Teflon tapes and fabrics are used in a variety of applications from heat bonding framework within UPVC window manufacture to the sealing of plastics and packaging throughout many sectors.
Biscor belts are used in a number of specialist areas such as rubber curing and extrusion, food process, the manufacture of rubber backed carpets through to drying belts used in screen-printing and other similar industries.
Not only are Biscor a leading manufacturing company, they are very keen to support the local community and have a history of making charitable donations.
Only recently they donated 12 complete Windows PC systems (and other IT equipment including printers) to Computer Aid International these PCs are now being used in thousands of schools benefiting many hundreds of thousands of students and are also being used to enhance the capacity of not-for-profit organisations.
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