MEDTEC UK 2013

The Europlaz team will be at MEDTEC UK this week. Medtec UK has move to Kensington Olympia, Wednesday 1 – Thursday 2 May 2013.

Europlaz experts in tooling, design and development, injection moulding and all things medical device will be on hand to talk you through new and exisiting projects.

We will have examples of present work and pipeline Europlaz projects as well as new packaging capabilities and value added services.

Please email via our webite to arrange a meeting - or just pop along to stand 425.

#medtecUK

 

Keep it British with TSI-Europe

Europlaz received the following marketing email from TSI-Europe this morning. It’s a pretty brash but effective plea to ‘keep it in Britain‘ by buying office stationery from a UK company with UK staff and UK taxes.

Do you think buying a product because it’s British is a good enough reason or is price always king?

Read the email here and let us know what you think @europlaz on Twitter.

OWNED, OPERATED AND TAXED IN BRITAIN

Good afternoon,
Can you help to ‘Keep it in Britain’?
As a founder member of the ‘Keep it in Britain’ Campaign.   I’m writing to ask if you could help by buying more of your day-to-day supplies from businesses that are owned and operated in the United Kingdom.  Each year billion of pounds drains out of the UK when foreign owned suppliers move their income and profits overseas.   But we can keep more of our spending here and give a real boost to our country and our people – it’s a simple idea and it needn’t cost you a penny .

Europlaz Internal Newsletter 2012-02

- Download a PDF copy here: Newsletter Issue 2-2012

- Newsletter Issue 2-2012

Europlaz, on reflection

Do you remember these falling out with your breakfast cereal in the mornings?

Before Europlaz became a medical device manufacturing specialist we did much more important work… injection moulding and assembly of Coco Pop bike reflectors!

Should we start a campaign to bring these back? Safe cycling for all..

Sublingual Drug Delivery Device – SubEuro

Article in Medical Plastic News about Europlaz sublingual device

MPN Magazine published an article about the Europlaz sublingual device in the latest magazine issue.

You can download the latest Medical Plastics News here.

Europlaz Newsletter – INTERNAL 2012-01

Europlaz Staff newsletter 01-2012

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.

Your FREE exhibition invitation to Medtec UK

Your FREE exhibition invitation to Medtec UK
23-24 May 2012 at NEC Birmingham

It’s been five years since Europlaz has exhibited at Medtec UK and we believe we have a lot to show for our time away – visit us on stand 1705 to find out more about our latest machinery, additional clean rooms and a new range of patented products for licence.

Along with the latest technology, Europlaz Technologies continues to offer wide-ranging expertise and facilities in tooling, design, technical injection moulding, assembly, packing and validation, as well as quality and regulatory support to enable CE marking of products.

Since 1970 Europlaz Technologies has grown from an injection moulding expert to a fully integrated medical device manufacturer.  We serve a wide range of markets including respiration, anaesthesia, drug delivery and injectable devices.

Today Europlaz Technologies is accredited with ISO 13485 and has four, class 7 cleanrooms, 22 injection moulding machines (ranging from 10 to 350 tonnes) and assembly services include hot-wire welding, laser cutting, ultra-sonic welding and aseptic liquid filling.

This year’s Medtec features a series of FREE seminars aimed at employees of the UK manufacturing sector, and highlights the increasing role that British companies such as Europlaz have to play in the international medical market, thanks to their reputation for innovation and quality.

As well as finding out more about Europlaz’s unique offering in the medical device market, a visit to Medtec is also an opportunity for your business to learn about new technologies, processes and case studies to help drive your company’s business forward, both technologically and financially.

If you can’t make the show, please feel free to arrange a site visit to see our facilities in action. We are proud of what we are doing and would like to share it with you.

The UK Plastics Industry: A strategic Manufacturing Sector

The BPF has published a discussion document entitled ‘The UK Plastics Industry: A Strategic Manufacturing Sector’.

The BPF are encouraging comment from the industry for use in further discussions.

The remainder of this post is a quoted directly from the BPF document:

Conclusion and Key Messages for Government
The plastics industry is critical to the success of UK Government’s manufacturing strategy. Due to their versatility plastics are now essential for most manufacturing and distribution industry sectors.

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.