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News Release from: Sandretto UK | Subject: 2300kN injection moulder
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2005
Faultless mouldings determined machine
choice
Making plastics mouldings for chrome plating requires a quite different level of quality and reliability and must be faultless, factors that determined careful moulding machine choice.
Leigh-on-Sea based Borough has added a new Sandretto 2300kN locking force injection moulding machine to its existing fleet of Sandretto machines The new Sandretto 2300kN machine will be helping Borough's move into the market for larger chrome plated mouldings
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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It will initially be moulding components for Aqualisa showers.
These will then be chrome plated at the Leigh-on-Sea, UK, plant.
Borough, specialist in chrome plated plastics and a very long standing Sandretto customer, was the subject of a full management buy-out (MBO) in November 2003 and has gone from strength to strength since, free to invest in and expand the business.
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Borough Managing Director David Coombes says that: "Happily for us the market for chrome plated is as buoyant as it has ever been".
"All sorts of sectors are specifying a new 'retro' look and styling." The vast majority of Borough business to date has been found in the automotive sector where customers for its plated chrome mouldings include most of the major OEMs, including BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Ford, General Motors and others.
Borough is, however, making a concerted push into other areas such as white goods, packaging and the household and building areas.
Coombes explains that: "Making mouldings for chrome plating requires a quite different level of quality and reliability".
"Hence our need to source our new Sandretto moulding machine".
"These mouldings must be faultless since it is not possible to produce a good chrome plated product from a merely average moulding".
"Any flash, sinkage or stress in the moulding makes it redundant".
"Added to that, most would say that the challenges are even greater in producing larger components for chrome - such as our new range for Aqualisa." Borough accordingly turned to Sandretto for help in specifying the new 2300kN (230 tonf) locking force machine.
Coombes says that: "We did not buy on price but based our decision on the best experience of supplier".
"Sandretto UK came through with flying colours".
" Apart from the trademark reliability, our new Sandretto handles the dimensional control of the mouldings perfectly and is programmed to the strict tolerances that the job requires".
"To meet our customer needs the Sandretto UK delivery and installation of the new machine was also much quicker than we anticipated and we were up and running ahead of schedule".
"Sandretto UK's reliability is part of Borough's reliability," adds Coombes.
The seven Sandretto moulding machines at the Leigh-on-Sea plant produce upwards of 300,000 mouldings a month which are then fed into Borough's purpose built and computer controlled plating plant.
This facility is one of the world's most advanced and incorporates an innovative effluent treatment plant as part of its design.
Borough's process involves a four stage nickel system which is then treated with micro-porous chrome for superior performance.
Sandretto UK Managing Director Terry O'Reilly says that: "David and the Borough team have worked hard to develop and expand the business".
"Sandretto UK is delighted to be associated as a supply partner with such a progressive and successful company." Other recent Sandretto UK order book successes thus far this year include a 16 Machine order for RGE Engineering, Yate, Bristol, as well as lately attracting four new customers in as many months.
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