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News Release from: GTMA | Subject: GTMA membership
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2004
In-house toolrooms swell GTMA ranks
Three significant in-house tool-rooms have recently swelled the ranks of the GTMA, continuing a trend that began some while ago when companies such as Denroy Plastics joined the association.
Three significant in-house tool-rooms have recently swelled the ranks of the GTMA, continuing a trend that began some while ago when companies such as Denroy Plastics joined the association The three new members, HBC Engineering Solutions, S and S Plastics and HellermannTyton, bring with them a wealth of expertise and tooling capacity, and demonstrate the diversity that exists among in-house tool-rooms
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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HBC Engineering Solutions Limited has, for over 40 years, been producing and assembling plastic and metal electrical and electronic connection systems components for multi-national corporation Weidmuller.
Now an independent company, HBC is spreading its wings and, equipped with the latest technologies to design and manufacture complete solutions under one-roof, offers its services both to its original parent and to other companies who are looking for high quality engineering solutions.
S and S Plastics, based in Derbyshire and originally formed in 1989, is a privately owned plastics injection moulding company, with the facilities and experience to take customers' ideas through design and rapid proto-types to complete finished products.
The in-house tool-room facility supports the company's objective of providing its customers with a complete, quality-orientated design and project management service resulting in high quality components.
HellermannTyton, a division of Spirent, with operations in 29 countries worldwide, is the leading manufacturer of products for the bundling, identification, protection, labelling and management of cables and wires.
The company has 3 main sites in the UK whose activities are supported by the in-house tool-room at Wythenshawe.
GTMA Director, Julia Moore, comments, "The GTMA is delighted to welcome these three market-leading companies into membership.
In-house tool-rooms are an often unrecognised, but vital part of our manufacturing infrastructure and as such the association has many benefits to offer them.
For example, HellermannTyton has become a GTMA member specifically to participate in its World Class Benchmarking activities, while HBC Engineering sees significant advantage in the many marketing activities which the association carries out on behalf of members and which, as a newly independent company looking for new opportunities, the firm is keen to access.".
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