Let’s face it – it’s just plastic.

There is nothing ‘just’ about plastic at Sinclair & Rush.  

To ‘Think Plastic’ as we do is to go around with your eyes open for opportunities, plastic opportunities. There are applications for plastic caps, plugs and sleeves all around us. MD Peter Boulton is always on the look out for new and innovative uses and benefits for Sinclair & Rush products and skills as his regular Facebook posts illustrate.
 

Take a look, like us on Facebook and you’ll see what we mean: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinclair-Rush/192148454273617

 

To follow Peter as he tours the country taking photos on his trusty iPhone of everything from engine parts to gate posts is quite an eye opener. You might be forgiven for thinking – ‘hey Mr Boulton it’s time for a long overdue vacation’ – but he would argue, it’s not so much vacation as vocation. When you ‘Think Plastic’ you literally … think plastic
 

It is important to fully understand the customers’ needs in order to suggest the most appropriate and cost effective solutions. If we can’t visit the site, then photographs and technical drawings of the component and the areas that need protecting do help our own engineers to plan, structure and cost our proposals.
 

What are we protecting the crucial parts from? What are we keeping out and what are we keeping in? What temperatures and materials are the parts going to be exposed to during the rigorous finishing stages of their life?
 

 

Sinclair & Rush have many ‘off-the-shelf’ solutions in the form of caps and plugs such as the plastic plugs on the engine mounting (above) protecting the threads from abrasive dirt ingress. However, with some lateral thought from our custom moulding engineering department, instead of applying five plugs before steam cleaning the unit, the fast application and removal of a multiple plug speeds the process up enormously (below).

 

This plastic diaphragm has been designed to protect the engine module as it is shipped from a manufacturer in the UK to an OME in China where it will become part of a mobile power unit. We really can’t stress enough how important it is for our customers to fully involve our sales engineers at the planning and design stage...

 

… A combined cap / plug diaphragm like this is clearly not an off-the-shelf product, but the result of combined, creative, engineering skill to create a solution that has become integral in an extended and global manufacturing process.

 

Think plastic plastic plastic plastic … err, no Peter, I think you’ll find on this occasion, that’s Gold! 

 

 Think Plastic ~ we do

 

Put us to the test.

We work with manufacturing companies in the UK & Europe, who have problems protecting or finishing their products. We manufacture and supply solutions for this through a wide variety of plastic mouldings, caps, plugs and sleeves, which means they... or indeed you.... reduce the risk of damage or contamination, so your customers receive a top quality product every time.

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