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Plastic Parts Direct accelerates success through racing sponsorship

Posted by PPD, on February 15, 2024.

Krämer Motorcycles UK & Ireland is the proud owner of the very first Krämer factory race team to enter the competitive UK racing world. The team will be competing in the highly competitive 2024 BSB British GP2 Championship, and we are pleased to announce that Plastic Parts Direct is now an official sponsor. Eddie Roberts, […]

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Krauss Maffei KM160 Delivered

Posted by PPD, on November 21, 2023.

Further business growth has been followed by further investment in new, energy efficient machinery. Many thanks to Krauss Maffei for their support and service in the supply and kitting out of one of their class leading injection moulding machines.

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Boy 60E servo pump machine delivered early!

Posted by PPD, on October 20, 2022.

Plastic Parts Direct new machinery investment continues, adding more capacity to it’s mouldshop with the purchase and delivery of a new Boy 60E Alpha 4 control machine. We would like to thank the people at Boy UK Ltd again(!) for providing a faultless service in supplying this new machine early and with no hiccups! Upgrading machinery to new super […]

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2 New Boy 35E Alpha 4 machines added to our production facility

Posted by PPD, on November 24, 2021.

Plastic Parts Direct new machinery investment adds more capacity to it’s mouldshop with the purchase and delivery of two new Boy 35E Alpha 4 control machines. We would like to thank the people at Boy UK Ltd for providing a faultless service in supplying these new machines on time and with no hiccups! The extra […]

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Triple Glazing Packers

Posted by PPD, on October 22, 2020. Tags: , ,

Continuing our constant investment into new products, we are pleased to announce that we now have 50mm wide flat packers for triple glazing available to partner our 44mm wide flat packer range. Please do get in touch if this is a product which may interest you or if you need more information, we’ll be happy […]

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3D Printed Tooling and Rapid Aluminium Tooling

Posted by PPD, on November 11, 2019.

  Here at Plastic Parts Direct we never stand still. We now have an exciting new offering being launched shortly that will open up a whole new world of opportunities for both us and our customers. So many of our prospective clients only want or need a small batch of mouldings but they have to […]

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Real Time Machine Monitoring

Posted by PPD, on September 20, 2019.

Control is an important aspect within the injection moulding industry. Although we have always run a very efficient factory there’s always room for improvement. Pin pointing those improvements is the difficult bit so to help with this we have installed an Intouch real-time monitoring system to all our injection moulding machines in our mouldshop which […]

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New Boy 60E added to Plastic Parts Direct line up

Posted by PPD, on August 29, 2019.

As we all know, to remain competitive and efficient you have to invest. That is why we continue down this road and have added a new Boy 60E injection moulding machine to our mouldshop here in Banbury. It’s compact design means there’s minimal floor space required, which is always good, and it’s Procan Alpha 2 […]

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Expansion Continues At Plastic Parts Direct

Posted by PPD, on July 26, 2019.

Due to continued growth PPD have invested in another 4000 sq ft of assembly and storage space. This will free up production space at our main factory for the installation of planned machinery expansion to further extend our capabilities.

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Southern Manufacturing Show 2019

Posted by PPD, on March 26, 2019.

Plastic Parts Direct would like to thank all the visitors who dropped on to our stand at the Southern Manufacturing Show in February this year. It was great to meet you and to discuss such a variety of enquiries. This was a very successful show for us, generating the most leads ever from an exhibition. […]

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