As a leading global supplier of precision custom rubber seals and mouldings, DP Seals plays a key role in a wide variety of applications - from F1 racing cars to underground ticket machines. This year, the company has invested ￡400,000 in new plant, doubled production space and increased headcount by 25%, We ask technical director Andrew Piper for some details DPA: Why have you made such a substantial investment? AP: We always invested in software and networking to speed the flow of information from engineering to tooling, from incoming order to despatch. However, over the last two decades, our factory layout had evolved to meet shorter-term needs and was becoming inefficient, impacting profitability Orders followed a convoluted path from raw material cutting through to final despatch and we knew we could do better. We added a new VMC machine to support the bigger presses we installed two years ago but further volume increases required more in our already overcrowded tool room. And increased volumes necessitated an expansion in our cryogenic cleaning capacity.
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