PETpla.net Insider 12 / 2015

MOULD MAKING 12 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 12/15 www.petpla.net Engineering Excellence www.netstal.com Maximum output No defects At Netstal our aim is to help you manufacture the perfect drinks closures: minimum cycle times combined with maximum quality yield the lowest unit costs and best possible pro- duction. And that’s no coincidence: our team of experts are specialised exclusively in closures – and machines made to perform. equipped. We have top load testers, automatic height and thickness testers and finish testing,” Tolley said. “We pull off a certain amount of bottles per hour for rigorous inspection. We are not going into production – we are validating, so everything is inspected off-line.” The building housing the new PSL was bought from an engineering com- pany and was thoroughly cleaned and remodelled. It now has a new floor, new walls and new electrics. Physi- cally, it is located a short distance from the exiting factory, across an industrial estate access road. Soft- ware servers are to be found either side – and elsewhere. “When we bought the facility we ran ducting across the road and put in fibre optic cabling,” said Tolley. “We back up the servers from across the way and also host backup for the USA plant – and they have backup over there, as well. If we lost all of our buildings here, four hours’ work is the absolute maximum we would lose.” None of the machinery on site is more than four years old; the inspec- tion equipment is state of the art, as is grinding, production, cutting, laser technology and design technology. Both production and data protection is about as secure as it gets. R&D/ Leverage has invested with care to ensure it is at able to deliver the total services it promises. It is training the next generation as well, a point that the local MP appreciates. “It is really good that R&D/Lever- age are doing so well and its commit- ment to providing at least two appren- ticeships a year is so welcome, and very important in this area,” she said. “Businesses like this are essential to the economic prosperity of my con- stituency.” www.rdleverage.com