Plant, team and programme updates from Top Plastic: capacity, machinery, certification, stockholding and trade shows.
The site now runs in English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and German, with every stocked grade carrying a studio image and a technical note written by the people who machine the parts.
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The new machine lets us finish complex parts from a single set-up, which matters most for PEEK and PEI components where re-clamping is where tolerances are lost.
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The audit closed with no major findings. The changes that matter to you are in traceability and supplier control, not in the certificate itself.
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Consolidating three separate buildings into one removes an entire internal transport step, which is where most of our lead-time variability came from.
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Offcuts from cut-to-size orders used to go to waste. They are now sorted by polymer, regranulated where the grade allows, and returned to the supply chain.
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More racking means deeper stock on the fast-moving grades, which is the only reliable way to keep cut-to-size lead times short.
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We will be exhibiting from the 15th to the 19th, with stock samples in all our major grades and engineers rather than sales staff on the stand.
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Two graduate engineers have joined the export team, which means technical questions now get answered by the people who will cut the material.
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Material sits in your warehouse but is owned and invoiced by us until you consume it. For regular users of a grade, it changes the working capital maths.
Read articleTell us the material, the size and how many pieces. If you are not sure about the material, describe the application and we will recommend one.
