published on 03/09/09
Contract engineers have been enlisted to install two new injection-stretch blow-moulding machines for a packaging firm that has outgrown its current buildings after only two years and who are moving to new premises.
'The new plant is far enough out of town not to upset the local authorities,' says managing director of SpectraJoe Maynard, who has secured planning permission for the site. He hopes that construction will begin by April of next year and should be completed within 18 months. The current investment in the new facility is in the region of £4-5m, to develop the site and the initial infrastructure required to operate it.
Such forward planning might seem at odds with the current economic climate when outsourcing is becoming to the front of people’s minds the firm is nothing if not ambitious. Indeed, while the recession is making it difficult for all businesses, especially companies such as Spectra that are starting out, the firm has been able to make the most of packaging buyers reassessing contracts. 'People have felt the need to look around for new products, which has helped us. The recession, and our reputation as a masterbatch supplier, has perhaps brought them to us sooner. Business is growing quite nice. ' says Maynard.
Growth at Spectra is not just a long-term policy and the firm continues to invest in its production lines. Which are looked after by a team of skilled mechanical engineers.Two new injection-stretch blow-moulding machines for manufacturing containers will be delivered to the plant, adding to one bought earlier in the year which was also installed with minimum disruption to the factory by the contract engineers.

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