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Plant Design and Construction
News Release from: Sandretto UK | Subject: NOVE S
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2004
Scaffold pole protection has offshore
interest
TT Ninefields is set to increase its presence in the building services market by extending its successful proprietary product range of protective mouldings for building scaffolding
Essex based technical injection moulder TT Ninefields is set to increase its presence in the building services market by extending its successful proprietary product range of protective mouldings for building scaffolding In the past two years, Ninefields have sold over 4 million CubbyCaps - patent-protected HDPE-moulded variety of scaffold fittings available with flanges for blocking and protecting the ends of scaffold poles
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 12 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Now the company is launching a variant of a new clip on protective hinge cover - the Armadillo - that will shield hinge and joint work on building scaffolding; thus limiting the everyday health and safety hazards and liabilities of the building site.
Playing its part in meeting production of these is a new Sandretto 300 tonne NOVE S injection moulding machine.
'We only look to receive two services from our new capital equipment suppliers,' says Martin Whyte, production director.
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'Firstly, the service into commission.
And second, the funeral service some fifteen years later! In all seriousness though, we do require fault free operations from our moulding machines and from the supplier.
With Sandretto UK we can be sure that what we buy is going to go the distance.' Offshore and process plant interest is currently driving the Ninefields order book for the newly produced Armadillo.
'And Health and Safety issues are the primary reason for growth in the market,' says Whyte.
'We are also increasingly receiving orders from municipal and local government departments and utilities who are concerned to ensure that their contractors protect the environment and prevent possible accidents'.
A photo luminescent Armadillo has also been launched by Ninefields - for illumination and hazard marking of process plant environments at night - and a rubber based version is also under development.
This range of scaffold products represents Ninefields first foray into proprietary products since its foundation in 1967.
With at least 200 million scaffold poles estimated to be used by the building industry, the company believes it has determined to drive production to some 10-15% of total turnover which currently stands at some GBP5 million.
Over a third of the Wickford-based moulder's 24 moulding machines - sizes range from 22 to 480 tonnes - are Sandretto/Metalmeccanica designed and made.
The company's KanBan and ISO 9001:2000 systems help ensure that machines are always in use and that shop floor production is always operating at full stretch.
Ninefields prides itself on offering a one-stop-shop design, toolmaking and moulding service from its Wickford, Essex site.
'From the first, over thirty years ago, we set out our stall as a first class, first division technical moulder,' notes Whyte.
'Our speciality is the jobs that others can't do.
We include Pro Engineer design, Tool making and trialling, injection moulding, right up to printing, assembly and finishing operations.
Any orders for production moulding received we will deliver within two weeks and new tools can be made within three weeks'.
Ninefields currently produces about 3,000 different trade products per year and holds a stock of some 600 tools, with 250-300 line changes needed per month.
An average of six to eight new tools are being made each month.
The company injection moulds in most polymers apart from PVC.
The company claims to be the UK's biggest user of Nylon 12 and the only UK moulder working with unfilled polyphenolsulphide (PPS) and with semi rigid polyurethane.
About 30% of total production leaves the factory gate as finished goods.
All finished product is bar coded and traceable throughout the production and distribution system.
Most of the company's moulding production is sub contracted to OEM companies or to Tier 1 automotive moulders.
Flexible Lamps was the first customer for Ninefields in the late 1960s, and the automotive markets continue to account for some 40% of the order book.
Recent prestige manufacturing has included under bonnet component work and design and manufacture for Visteon and Jaguar.
TT Ninefields employs some 65 people at its 20,000 sq ft Wickford, Essex site.
The company also owns a 6,000 sq ft site in nearby Rayleigh, Essex which may see expansion and utilisation at the end of the year.
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