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Plastics and Rubber Moulding Subcontracting Services
News Release from: Bourne Technical Mouldings | Subject: Automotive plastics mouldings
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 February 2005
Capacity and staff expanded to meet
demand
To meet what is described as 'skyrocketing customer demand' - particularl;y from automotive clients - a UK moulder has expanded capacity and is taking on more staff.
Established for less than three years, Bourne Technical Mouldings (BTM) is racing ahead of many more established mould shops in and beyond the West Midlands region The companys latest acquisition, a Nove T injection mould unit from Sandretto, has been purchased with help of a 20% grant from Accelerate West Midlands, to satisfy sky-rocketing customer demand. Managing director, Mark Bourne, explains, "We are absolutely delighted with the way the business has taken off. We are now operating a full-time night shift and have had to take on additional staff to satisfy demand. The company has tripled production since its formation just two and a half years ago BTM is now firmly established as a full blown production moulding shop, supplying specialist plastic components for the automotive market, with particular expertise in providing mouldings that require a secondary finish e.g aluminising, chrome plating and painting
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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For such demanding applications, only the best mouldings will do, so Sandretto was a natural choice of supplier, the Nove T series machines having been developed specifically to give users a 'competitive advantage' in terms of repeatability, precision and reliability. In injection moulding for automotive, part quality is all important, and achieving those optimum results depends on using the best equipment, and knowing how to get the most out of it, throughout the entire production cycle. To support its strategy of purchasing first class equipment the company is also training its staff through the Investors in People and Accelerate programmes.
In addition, BTM is also working towards achieving the new ISO/TS 16949 quality management accreditation standard, which has been specifically produced for automotive suppliers. Bourne believes that this new standard, which has been produced through a unique collaboration of major vehicle manufacturers from around the world, represents a great opportunity for UK suppliers, as he says, "for the first time, we have a requirements specification that can be satisfied by compliance based on a single standard ? this is a huge step forward for the industry. These techniques and procedures not only result in better products for our customers, but also provide a sound basis for quality management for all the processes in the business.
And for a company that is growing as fast as we are ? the security of having good processes in place is paramount.
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