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Rapid aluminium mouldmaking reformed
Three British Engineers have re-launched the market-leading rapid-tooling Company Omega Plastics after the closure of the Fitstogether group.
Three British Engineers have re-launched the market-leading rapid-tooling Company Omega Plastics after the closure of the Fitstogether group The new Omega Plastics will focus on rapid aluminium mouldmaking and low-volume moulding of complex plastic parts
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Chris Thompson, Chairman of the £20m Express Engineering Group; Gordon Styles, formerly of Styles Rapid Prototyping; and Dave Crone of Omega Plastics have invested in the new Company and have raised significant finance to secure its future.
The new Managing Director of Omega Plastics is rapid-prototyping veteran Gordon Styles - "I have followed Omega's progress since it started in 1998 and have always been very impressed by its quality and speed.
I was delighted when the opportunity arose to invest in the business.
I think that Omega's offering became diluted over the past few years, so my goal is to get back to the core product of rapid-tooling for complex parts." "Our message to customers is simple - we make aluminium moulds and mould parts, we do it very well, and we do it very quickly.
We are very dedicated Engineers, and I think that Engineers need to be running Engineering businesses - the Engineers are now back in charge of this business." Originally formed in 1998, Omega Plastics grew to become the UK's largest and most successful rapid-tooling Company based on the skills of its toolmakers.
Chris Thompson explained - "I believe that the success of any business lies firmly in the hands of the workers.
All of the toolmakers that are in the new Company have been with Omega from the very beginning.
We will be spending a lot of time and money investing further in our workforce, as well as investing in new and advanced equipment.
I have a long history of investing heavily in my other engineering businesses; Omega will be no exception." Dave Crone, Operations Director - "We've made thousands of moulds and have worked relentlessly to reduce the time it takes to get parts to our customers.
Our secret, if there is one, is that we assign each mould to a single highly skilled toolmaker.
That individual talks to the customer, does the design, the engineering, and the trialing of the mould.
Our designs are done on the shop-floor in real time, not in a remote design office and then thrown over the wall to the toolroom.
Ours is a very personal service.".
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