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NEPPCO members include consultancies, product designers, materials
suppliers, toolmakers and manufacturers. Consultancies offer expertise
in process and product development, plant design, and finance while
product manufacturers supply to major end-user markets, including Packaging,
Electronic, Automotive, Building, Medical, Leisure, Telecommunications,
and Domestic Appliances. Many customers in these markets are high quality
leaders in their own right, including Boots, British Aerospace, Elizabeth
Arden, GEC, Hoover, IBM, Lucas CAV, Philips, Racal, Renault, Rolls Royce,
Sanyo, Siemens.
In total, this represents a pooled resource that includes
- Around 75,000 tpa thermoplastic compounding capacity including
LDPE, HDPE, LLDPE, PVC, PE, PP, PA, PS, SAN, ABS, PC, PMMA
- Thermoset compounds including Phenolic SMC, DMC, granules, flocks
and Prepregs.
- Compounding additives including a wide range of colour masterbatches
both specific and universal, incorporating flame retardents, bio-degradables,
anti-slip, anti-static, glass fibre, chalk and talc filled materials.
- Engineering thermoplastics including glass fibre reinforced varieties.
- Over 50 injection moulding machines ranging from 25 to 600
tonnes lock and 45gms to 8.5kg shot weight
- Around 20 extrusion lines with haul-off for rod, film and profiles
- Over 50 blow moulding machines with capacity up to 200 litres
- Around 50 thermoforming machines
- Rotational moulding
- Over 15 compression moulding machines up to 300 tonnes
- Reaction injection moulding, solid and foam
- Glass reinforced plastic mouldings
- Fabrication and assembly facilities including ultrasonic and
hot plate welding
- Silk screen printing, hot foil stamping and Tampo printing
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