Sandretto UK & Ireland supplies Injection Moulding Machines, Robots and ancillary equipment for use in the hygiene or pest control industry. In the hygiene industry, in particular, it is important that our machines provide consistency during operation to ensure that all the products produced meet adequate standards.
Click on any of the stories below to read more about how our clients make use of Sandretto products:
Tex Industrial Plastics
TEX CONCLUDES NEW ‘MEGA’ DEA
A Sandretto ‘MEGA TW’ 610 tonne injection moulding machine has recently been installed in the newly opened Derby factory of Tex Industrial Plastics. Supplied as a complete cell with hopper loader, Nepal S3 all-electric drive de-mould robot and indexing conveyor, the new machine is to be used primarily for producing parts for Heatrae Sadia’s ‘Megaflo’ domestic, unvented water heating system.
Tex Industrial Plastics employs what Managing Director Peter Stevenson describes as “a real partnership approach” with its major customers. Typical is Heatrae Sadia for which Tex has been moulding a range of parts for many years. Post-moulding work includes printing, ultrasonic welding, sub-assembly and packaging.
Part of the Tex Holdings plc group of companies which also includes Tex Plastics Products in Barnstaple, Tex Industrial Plastics made further extensions to its Derby factory earlier this year to accommodate an 11% business expansion.
The company has operated Sandretto injection machines for over 20 years; four years ago, Tex Derby took the opportunity of a move into an earlier plant extension to introduce cell production techniques when it installed Sandretto 270 tonne and 380 tonne Series 8 injection machines. Investment continued with a new Serie NOVE 125 tonne machine.
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Brightwell Dispensers
BRIGHTWELL DISPENSES SUCCESS FROM MAJOR SPECULATIVE INVESTMENT
Sandretto 1000 tonnes produces larger paper towel dispenser moulding from 3-impression tool.
Brightwell Dispensers of Newhaven, East Sussex, is now reaping the benefits of a speculative decision made 18 months ago to invest in a Sandretto MEGA T 1000, a much larger injection machine than those currently in use.
In the words of Managing Director Neal Pybus: "That was the way we saw the market going. We were not prepared to restrict the future expansion of the company by delaying investment until the hygiene market picked up; if necessary we were prepared to produce smaller parts in the machine for a period. In the event we will have had little more than three months of running it under capacity, albeit 18 hours per day."
AUTOMATIC TIE-BAR REMOVAL
A major manufacturer of its own soap and paper towel dispenser enjoying increasing export sales, Brightwell used the 1993 Interplas exhibition to make a first judgment on injection machines of around 1000 tons lock. The final decision to purchase a MEGA T 1000 from Sandretto was settled by the availability of a removable tie bar to accommodate height restrictions in the moulding shop.
"It works really well" explains Neal Pybus, "At the push of a button, the tie bars slide back, providing full access for the gantry to unload and load moulding tools.
380 TONNE TO SATISFY GROWING MARKET
With six months to go before the Sandretto 1000 tonne was scheduled for installation, the market continued to grow and Brightwell found themselves sub-contracting production on eight mould tools. To meet this additional demand, the company installed a 380 tonnes Series Eight Sandretto in the new, purpose built moulding department, bringing its number of Sandretto machines to seven.
Improvements to its in-house moulding facility were already giving the company the tight control it desired over component costs. Consequently, an ability to maintain control over costs with the new, larger moulding tools had been a contributory factor in the decision to install a 1000 tonnes machine.
The first project uses a three impression, hot runner mould to produce the cover, back plate and bottom tray for the company's new BP4S large hand towel dispenser. Assembled, it measures 400 mm by 290 mm and stands 145 mm out from the wall.
EXPORTS AT 47%
With exports now running at 47% of turnover, the new, large Sandretto injection machine places Brightwell Dispensers in a position to broaden its activities in the wider aspects of waste disposal products and systems.
SERVICE 'SECOND TO NONE'
"When we first began using Sandretto machines" states Neal Pybus, "the UK company promised us back and support services which would be second to none. I can honestly state that, in all of our dealings with them over the past few years, this has always been the case".
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