New facility opens opportunities for Plastic Coatings

By Plastic Coatings Ltd
schedule16th Aug 19

The recent opening of a new coating facility, as well as gaining accreditation from JCB, means that Plastic Coatings has a healthy order book and is looking forward with confidence.

No business likes to turn away potential jobs, so when the management of Plastic Coating Ltd noticed that increasing numbers of potential customers were seeking to coat larger items, which they didn’t have the capacity to do, they did something about it. Cue a £90,000 investment in a new coating plant designed to handle large and heavy components.

The new facility includes a four-metre-wide wet spray paint booth, a four-metre-wide powder coating booth and a six metre by four metre by three metre box oven, which significantly enhances Powder Coatings’ capacity, says Richard Allen, Engineering Projects Manager at Plastic Coatings.

Richard says that the investment is already paying off as, despite doing no advertising for the new facility – bar a news story on the company website – it has been operation almost every day since it was opened. “We are getting quite a few enquiries coming in,” he says. “It looks like the facility will pay for itself pretty quickly.”

But this isn’t the only positive development for the Kingswinford-based business in recent months. Plastic Coatings has also become a JCB-approved coater. “When [a business] gets allocated some work by JCB, they have to use one of the approved coating companies on their list, of which we are one,” explains Richard.

The accreditation came about after Richard had a conversation with Zach Baker, Sales and Marketing Manager at acoustic solutions provider Acoustafoam at a Made in the Midlands networking event at Hexagon Metrology in Telford.

Zach gave Richard contacts at JCB to speak to in order to get the ball rolling for the accreditation, which he did.

“We were then recommended to JCB by three other companies who we are currently applying coatings for,” says Richard. “JCB then contacted us and came out to see our facility and carried out plant audits, we supplied test panels to show our processes met their coating requirements and from that we gained approval.”

This adds to the accreditations that Plastic Coatings already hold, including ISO9001 and ISO 14001, OHSAS18001 and IATF16949 and approved supplier status with Caterpillar.

Unsurprisingly, Plastic Coatings is looking to the future with confidence. Sales are at a good level across all sectors that the company works in, according to Richard.

Plastic Coatings is also looking to increase its standing in the rail sector. To this end, the company has exhibited at several exhibitions this year, including the Made in the Midlands Expo at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, and Railtex at the NEC, as well as other smaller rail events across the country. Richard says there are plenty of new opportunities for the company in the rail sector.


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