New Website for Europlaz Technologies

The old Europlaz website did us proud – it can’t be denied – it opened loyally and recorded visits and clicks without fail. However, after ten long years of service the time has come for ‘Europlaz.co.uk – mark one’ to retire.

Everyone at Europlaz will miss this old familiar face around the office and we wish it well as it relaxes in cyber space.

Following many strategic and exhaustive meetings we have decided to introduce ‘Europlaz.co.uk mark two’ to the company.

This new appointment is effective immediately and the whole team would like to offer a warm welcome to the newest member and wish her well – Europlaz.co.uk will be in charge of new online business, web communications and photo and video galleries.

Please feel free to get in contact and let us know how this new team member is performing. Have a look around for yourself and check back here for an detailed look at the new features and web pages introduced.

The easiest way to contact us  is via Twitter @europlaz or via the website.  We are looking forward to your thoughts.

Evolution of the injection mould tool manufacturing industry in the UK

A recent article in Plastic and Rubber Weekly, ‘UK Mouldmakers fight back’, addresses the transformation of the injection mould tool manufacturing industry in the UK.  Due to the introduction of Injection Mould tools from overseas suppliers, at very competitive rates mouldmakers have had tricky decisions to make in order to thrive.

According to the Mouldmaking feature in PRW’s 16 March issue there are three different ways of meeting and responding to the challenge faced:

1)      Compete head-on through high quality and rapid turnaround.

2)      Migrate from “make” to “mend” – pulling out of new mould building altogether and moving to modification, repair and refurbishment.

3)      As a client for large projects, convene a consortium of mouldmakers with complementary capabilities on a “horses for courses” basis.

The Europlaz solution

At Europlaz things are no different, gone are the days of a tool room with 15 highly skilled toolmakers frantically trying to meet deadlines of multi-impression tools. Today, an amalgamation of all three of the above options has been implemented and the strategy is proving to be very successful.