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News Release from: Toolcraft Plastics (Swindon) | Subject: Plastics product design, tooling and manufacture
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2004
One-stop-shop moulder and toolmaker
keeps ahead
To further its complete service of product design, tooling and manufacture, Toolcraft Plastics has purchased three 500kN moulding machines complete with micro-processor controls.
Toolcraft Plastics of Swindon have just purchased three Arburg 320s, 500kN moulding machines complete with micro-processor controls The investment is designed to keep Toolcraft ahead in their quest to offer a complete service of product design, tooling and manufacture in all plastic materials, to industry and innovator alike
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Many novel techniques and long service industrial experience have combined over the last year to provide clients with top grade products at realistic prices.
John Hemsworth, Managing Director at Toolcraft records around forty new accounts during the previous twelve months.
These comprise a mixture of new entrepreneurs requiring guidance in the basics of design for manufacture and mature companies looking for partners to work with, maintain or modify existing tooling, not always designed for optimum efficiency and get up to production speed quickly.
Often, with companies where cut-backs have reduced available in-house effort, Toolcraft have also assisted with improving production efficiency and product design up-dates, helping to maintain a product's market position.
Our success, he claims, comes from taking on the difficult jobs, awkward or complex designs, ones which don't just run off the machine and usually with short to medium batch sizes.
The in-house ability to design and manufacture our own tools, up-to-date software for design, production and control all make to a highly efficient organisation with an enviable record of shipping quality product, on-time, on budget.
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