Gripping news for global plastic moulding solutions

As you reach for your pliers, do you ever wonder at the global resources that have combined to create the branded plastic grips on the handles – well of course not …

…but if you are a hand tools manufacturer, then finding the most cost-effective means, source and logistics for finishing and differentiating the grips and handles on your products over the competitions’ is a year round task.

This is where you’d expect us to tell you about the cost efficient, flexible, supportive and viable dip moulding and dip coating solutions from Sinclair & Rush’s GripWorks brand, products and service portfolio.

Or that our bespoke dip coating and moulding, colours, double dip texture variables and branding solutions are second to none and are proven to fit into cross-continent manufacturing logistics.

But again that’s not what we want to brag about today.

What we do want to introduce today is our ability to supply Liquid Plastisol to manufacturers for dip moulding and dip coating either by us or by your own preferred dip coating supplier. If you have ‘in house’ dip coating solutions but your liquid plastic is not up to spec, contact Sinclair & Rush and we will supply it anywhere in the world.

Sinclair & Rush laboratories have created numerous combinations of Liquid Plastisol under the VynaFlex brand at our parent company, Sinclair & Rush, Missouri, USA. In fact, there are over 55 combinations and colours to suit all applications. Some materials are even available in fluorescent, metallic and translucent colours. These unique VynaFlex plastisol formulations are also mixed at our Maidstone works to support customer-specific solutions across Europe.

These are just some of the single and double dip effects and variations that our fabrication techniques facilitate:

...and this short video clip shows the broader THINK PLASTIC solutions available from Sinclair & Rush:

Our custom dip moulding services can take your product and create a GripWorks solution, from Sinclair & Rush, to add value to your products and make them stand out at retail point of sale.

Typical applications for plastisol include coatings for marine products, playground equipment, outdoor furniture, hand grips and electrical insulation covers. GripWorks (as it says on the tin) are heavily involved in the grip business, hence the availability of a number of plastisol formulas specifically designed to improve the look and feel of materials for hand grip applications.

Sinclair & Rush (UK / Europe) have recently been asked to replicate an arrangement being successfully operated ‘Stateside’, over here in Europe. There, hand wrenches are supplied to a third party, as is the liquid plastisol from S&R. The wrenches are dipped to create the distinctive grips. Then the manufacturer continues their US distributions with optimal cost efficiency and practical logistics.

Irega is perhaps Europe’s leading manufacturer of adjustable wrenches. They are based in Spain but support customers and users worldwide. A statistic quoted at the recent International Hardware Fair in Cologne stated that “over 90% of its total production is exported to over 60 countries around the world”. Global indeed.

Their manufacturing and logistics systems are finely tuned to supply the best quality adjustable wrenches, serviced anywhere, whilst optimising stock levels, all managed from Spain. Part of this chain of events is the dip coating of their highly distinctive grips in Slovenia.

In Europe, we are to start supplying the liquid plastisol to Unior in Slovenia for the dip coating process. The wrenches will be dipped and sent back to Spain for packaging and further shipping to the States for onward sales and distribution there.

For a business intent on cost effective manufacture of the highest standards – we are proud they have chosen Sinclair & Rush to supply the quality plastisol they need.

Make a cost-effective distinction to your grips – coat them with GripWorks soon.

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