Customer Case Study Two
'Expertise that delivers savings
& performance'
OUR CUSTOMER is a leading UK and European printing company operating from numerous production sites.
Printing various newspaper supplements our customer has a requirement to collate these with other printed materials using a clear polythene film which is wrapped on highly efficient, high speed machines in a world class manufacturing facility in the UK.
Originally using a 30 micron film, Total Polyfilm was requested to initiate an extensive cost reduction programme on the film without affecting the key performance parameters and characteristics of the material.
AFTER EXHAUSTIVE LABORATORY TESTING the result was a specially formulated blend of polymers which allowed the film thickness to be reduced to 18 microns. Machine trials were carried out at our customers manufacturing site and the 18 micron film was successfully introduced through a carefully planned programme of changeover to ensure that no disruption took place to production outputs and volumes.
BASED ON OUR ORIGINAL CONTRACT volumes the annual saving to our customer by reducing all film wrappers from a thickness of 30 micron to 18 micron has amounted to a sum slightly in excess of £1million.
As a result Total Polyfilm has secured sole supply status to this world class manufacturing site but we have not stopped there. Further development work on the material has continued and successful trials of a 15 micron film have been completed. Once our customer decides to introduce this then a further saving of £263,000 will be achieved giving a total cost reduction for this project of over £1.3 million
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