Edging Strips help Protect, Package and Finish

Sinclair & Rush’s remit is to manufacture and supply products that Protect, Package and Finish our customers’ wide ranging materials, products and work in progress. It’s unusual to find one product range that fits into all three categories – but Edging Strips do just that – they protect, they Package and they Finish.

Of course, this is a new departure for traditional Sinclair & Rush clients and is further evidence of the increasing diversity of the product range we now offer since acquiring Component Force in April. The standard plastic edging strips (below) will be manufactured at our Rochester site as we further develop our Extrusion Moulding facilities there.

The best way to find out more is to call our experts on 01634 686 504 or to look at the range and shop on-line here.

Edgings strips have a huge range of applications and, as such, are available in an equally huge variety of materials, strengths and formats.

The simplest is the standard plastic edge which protects sharp and vulnerable edges. It is durable and flexible enough to clip over irregular shapes. These strips are available in 10, 25 and 50 metre lengths which you simply cut to size and apply.

Heavier duty edging strips offer extra protection & durability to provide a neat and safe finish to sharp edges. These too are available in handy 10, 25 and 50 metre lengths.

Foam edging strips or Edge protectors are prized by the transport industry for protecting products and goods during transportation. As well as being excellent for shipping protection, the foam edge can be used to protect any number of corners and crevices. The edge protector can be used for carrying sheet metal or glass, table tops, protect desk edges, painting protection, fragile goods, MDF, general edge protection etc.

Impact protection profiles provide both a visual warning and a safety cushioning. They protect corners, protruding edges and goods in warehouses, production areas etc. These high quality foam edging protectors are fitted with a self adhesive strip for easy installation to a smooth, dust and grease free surface and are manufactured in flexible age-resistant polyurethane foam.

As we said though – the applications are so varied and the products to Protect, Package and Finish so broad that the best way to find out more is to call our experts on 01634 686 504 or to look at the range and shop on-line here.

Call our experts on 01634 686 504

or to look at the range and

shop on-line here.

Hand in hand, our grips work harder

Our Foam Grips and Sleeves are made from a variety of proprietary foam formulas through the GripWorks division of Sinclair & Rush. The enormous range is such that there is bound to be a solution for almost any hand grip application.

 

Styles range from standard foam bicycle grips to extruded foam grips for rake handles and other long handled tools. Materials also come in a wide variety of formulas, densities, and finishes.

 

 

Smooth Foam Grips are the least expensive foam grips formed from simply foam tubes that go through no conversion process. These straight tubes have a shiny exterior surface and are popular on long handled tools, brooms, rakes, and u-shaped handle bars. Splined Foam are unique foam grips that offer a different look to the extruded foam tube.

 

 

Buffed Foam Grips come from one of the most common methods for turning foam tubes into foam grips, buffing off the exterior skin of the tube. This buffing process yields foam grips that have a sponge-like exterior with a suede-like feel. And Foam Hand Grips are the most common, standard hand grips.

 

We have a large range of Foam Grips and Foam Sleeves held in stock and can soon turn around special orders and / or custom designs. Just call us on  01634 686 504 for advice or FREE SAMPLES or click here to shop on-line now.

 

To help you make sure you are ordering the right size of grip. James Gardner stepped up to the camera to demonstrate exactly how to measure the accurate specifications for the grip you need. Just click on the image below to view the video.

 

 

Consolidated Dip Moulding ~ increased production

Since the acquisition of Component Force and its union into the Sinclair & Rush family in April this year, there has been a lot going on in the background that we hope has been seamless as far as our customers are concerned.

As one big plastics manufacturer and distributor merges with another, there are bound to be operational overlaps. Without revealing all the nitty gritty (you’ll have to buy the book for that!), here’s the simple version to show how everybody wins:

 

 

We have moved all of our Dip Moulding resources to one site – from Laker Road, Rochester to Spectrum West, Maidstone. This has increased our manufacturing capacity enormously. With all the machinery, raw materials and skills now in one place, customers benefit from competitive long run production as well as technical bespoke engineering and manufacture to provide short run and one off solutions – all under one roof.

But what does that mean for Rochester production? We’re very pleased you asked. That has enabled us to increase resources to extend our Injection Moulding and Extrusion Moulding volumes. Product ranges are growing and prices are now more competitive than ever, particularly on longer run orders.

Rochester has also increased its stock holding and distribution capacity. With increased manufacture across a broader product range, we need the capacity so that you (the valued customer) can still benefit from next day delivery.

Whether you buy on-line at www.component-force.com;

ask for our new Product Overview Brochure by calling 01634 686 504;
or dial the same number (that’s 01634 686 504) and ask for assistance to make sure you order the most appropriate product to solve your Protection, Packaging or Finishing needs…

… we still promise next day delivery on any stock item*.

 

[* next day delivery on stock items for orders placed by 15.00 for mainland UK delivery.]

Just waiting for the T shirt

Working with, in and for Sinclair & Rush as a supplier, customer, colleague or member of staff can rarely be called dull. We just never know quite what’s around the corner. Give someone responsibility for a business that’s ticking over and many would be happy with the tick and just make sure it passed its MOT each year. Others might put it through a textbook service, turning the tick to a purrrr.

But then you have Sinclair & Rush with its combination of American direction and Great British leadership. This baby was given a full ‘change management’ re-tune. New, low profile high performance all weather wheels were fitted; a Mercedes AMG team went to work under the bonnet; and its whole image was spruced up with a great looking, memorable paint job.

In proverbial ‘car speak’, this is pretty much why Sinclair & Rush became the staff & customer centric, service-ethos business it is today.

But this was no textbook service – this wrote a new textbook altogether … literally.

 

MD, Peter Boulton, engineered these changes and has taken ‘perfection’ a step further by writing a book about it:

Thinking Profit ~ the Journey is a corporate autobiography, he shares the blow by blow processes that stopped decline and boosted dramatic growth.

“There are literally thousands of books on business success that purport to take you behind the scenes and reveal the 'method behind the madness'. In most cases they rarely live up to the hype. Thinking Profit - The Journey is a fascinating and carefully constructed front row perspective of what it takes to actually grow a company under the most trying of economic circumstances and exceed expectations.”

So wrote Andrew Priestly CEO The Coaching Experience Ltd on reading a pre-print draft.

This unpretentious, easy reading and above all helpful biography of a year (or so) in business has much to offer and does so honestly. Amongst the methods he follows and techniques he still applies on this Journey, Peter details:

• the importance of the Mission Statement;
• the concept of ‘Why’;
•  the 3 Step Process;
•  his Eleven Elements;
• and a crucial Seven Step Marketing Plan.

…all frank revelations of pragmatic management style.

International business development coach and mentor, Penny Power OBE wrote: “Peter Boulton is a seasoned business manager. In this book he is not hyping things up, he is not getting over excited by new technology, he tells you how it is and what it takes to grow a sustainable business.”

So – we have the plastics engineering business: Sinclair & Rush: http://www.sinclair-rush.co.uk/

we have the video: http://bit.ly/1qPa9Qf

and now the book, Thinking Profit ~ the Journey, available at Amazon:  http://amzn.to/1nMTmv7

Just waiting for the T shirt !

 

[Proceeds from book sales will be donated to Parenta Trust / Fields of Life. Fields of Life realised that by drilling fresh water wells in an impoverished and poorly east African village, stopped the children having to walk for hours to fetch the polluted liquid that passed for water previously. This newly available youthful time was then put to good use in the school (also built by Fields of Life) to educate the kids and re-invest their skills in a sustainable, agricultural village life.

For details of Parenta Trust charity, click: http://www.parenta.com/charity/ ]

Next day delivery from the biggest ‘shop’ in Kent

Since the 1st April announcement of the merger of Component Force into Sinclair & Rush after their acquisition, senior management teams have been busy optimising their joint resources. But this is not the usual post-acquisition rationalisation through cuts, closures and severance. This is an exercise in positive optimisation of joint skills and resources.

For this business, bigger really is better.

By combining manufacturing and customer services into the Maidstone site and sales, stock and distribution to the Rochester site, the joint resources of both will be co-located from July to better serve customers needs across the UK and Europe.

Sinclair & Rush has become a ‘one stop shop’ for products to Protect, Package and Finish manufacturers’ and distributors’ components, work in progress and stock in store and transit.

SHOP NOW is the joint message on each corporate and satellite website. And, for products held in stock – and that’s what we technically call ‘a heck of a lot’ – for orders placed today, you get the goods tomorrow. That is ‘next day delivery from the biggest shop in Kent’.

 

So just what can be found in this ‘shop’?

This is what it says above the entrance to this virtual shop:

“Sinclair & Rush now incorporate Component Force, creating the biggest single source of Protection, Packaging and Finishing products in Europe, offering specialist plastics manufacturing operations supply OEMs and distributors with dip and injection moulded plastic, rubber & nylon caps, plugs, sleeves and hand grips from stock and engineered to bespoke order.  We also stock and supply clear plastic boxes, clamshells and tubes for packaging; and huge varieties of tube inserts, feet, castors, wheels, hinges, fastenings, locks and latches for finishing.”

And what does this mean for customers?

The important thing for existing clients who have been used to exemplary service, perfect product, competitive pricing and helpful problem diagnosis and solution – there’s no change.

For new clients, well, you'll gain the benefits that existing clients already enjoy: exemplary service, perfect product, competitive pricing and helpful problem diagnosis and solution.

If you have:

• a tube that needs a liner;
• a leg that needs a foot;
• two components that need a hinge;
• a garden tools you manufacture that need grips to enhance the product / brand;
• or if you are a global engine manufacturer needing to plug and protect vital components from invasive swarf or heat treatment;
• a distributor wanting bold branding and clear instructions on plastic point of sale packaging;
• an engineering company needing bespoke plastic dip moulded caps, sleeves or plugs …

…you’ll find the answer here: www.componentforce.co.uk and 01634 686 504.

 

…and don’t forget:

2 x Executive Officers; 1 x £350 car; 1,100 x gruelling miles – what a way to Think Plastic ~ we do

What better way to test the resolve of the MD of one leading plastics manufacturing business and the once MD of the other leading plastics and hardware stockist and distributor (now acquired by the former) than to send them out to buy a £350 car and drive it across Europe, over the Alps hairy Furka Pass and on to Monaco.

Well, that’s exactly what Peter Boulton (MD Sinclair & Rush) and Paul Gardner (CD S&R post MD Component Force – now a division of Sinclair & Rush) are doing – all in the name of one fantastic charity.

The process of acquisition is long and arduous, particularly for the heads of the acquirer and mergee, both in the long months before the event and those securing the perfect operational unity afterwards.

So, what better test of co-operative spirit than to cast them adrift in ‘an old banger’ to take part in the Maidstone to Monaco Banger Rally raising much needed funds for Parenta Trust. Parenta Trust (incorporating Fields of Life) is an innovative charity whose efforts are giving more than just hope to the children of Uganda and Kenya.

 

They drill sources of fresh drinking water and build schools for the children of eastern Africa. Each project is turned into a business. Managers are mentored to deliver sustainable resources locally, so that school, water and farming become self-sufficient within each of the communities the charity helps.

The children gain two basic assets for life - water and education - and their parents the guidance to grow and sell crops. As well as nourishing their families, they contribute financially to the running of their village schools. School managers are taught how to claim and maintain authority and charitable grants enabling Parenta Trust to move its own resources to fund and manage fresh projects elsewhere.

93 pence in every pound donated delivers sustainable help where it’s needed most – on the ground.

Paul has been involved with the charity for some time and has visited projects in Uganda. Sinclair & Rush have sponsored and supported Fields of Life (now part of Parenta Trust) activities in the past also. So it made sense for their joint venture to continue across Europe, over the Alps, to Monaco and back (hopefully!) to raise money.

Their efforts will raise a minimum of £1,000 but through your support, sponsorship and general kindness, they hope to raise much more as their old banger chugs and splutters its way to the chequered flag.

If you would like to sponsor the S&R car, we will reproduce your logo onto a magnetic sheet that sticks to the wing (it might even help keep it together) and you’ll ride the hood from 25^th to 29^th June from Maidstone through Europe, over the Alps and down to Monaco – then back, route direct for home.

In true Top Gear style, all they have to do is buy a car for £350; drive across Europe; navigate the hairy Furka Pass, switching back on themselves through hairpin bends with unforgiving drops – will £350 buy power steering – and let’s hope it has a clutch!

To reserve your logo, please e-mail paul@component-force.co.uk. If you would like to donate even a small amount to this amazing cause, just follow directions on the link, here:

These are just some of the life changing projects our team will be driving for:

 

If you would like to make even a small donation, just follow this link: https://www.justgiving.com/Sinclair7

and these children will be so happy ... 

…thank you.

 

 

 

Protect, Package, Finish – ‘discovering app after exciting new app!’

Since we completed the lengthy process of merging Component Force into the Sinclair & Rush family of global manufacturers and distributors of plastic caps, plugs and sleeves; plastic boxes, clamshells and tube packaging; and handgrips - we have been discovering so many exciting benefits and new opportunities. Our world has become very exciting indeed.

It’s rather like buying a new phone...

We clearly spent a great deal of time researching the pros and cons of this over that before ‘purchasing the phone’. And yet, now we actually have the shiny new toy in our hands, we’re discovering app after exciting new app that makes life easier and opportunities greater still.

Component Force has become a new and exciting division of Sinclair & Rush. Let’s take a look at what these changes and new service apps mean for customers old and new.

Firstly, the opportunity to source protection, packaging or finishing products and components through just one point of contact is now greater than ever before. Frankly, if we can’t find it in over 300 pages of catalogued items, it probably doesn’t exist – but that’s not a problem. If it doesn’t exist, our combined experience and global resources will either source it, or design and manufacture it.

StockCap, GripWorks and VisiPak are global divisions of Sinclair & Rush. Now, Component Force is too. So, if we click (virtually) the all new Component Force app, what will we discover:

 

Here’s a small cross-section of what you’ll find: rubber and plastic feet; castors and wheels; handles and hand wheels; hinges and fasteners; tube fittings and tube connections; street furnishings and scaffold protection; locks and latches; fasteners; cable management and edging strips; the list goes on.

And if we (again virtually) click the VisiPak app… :

 

 

...we find even more great products to add to the ‘packaging’ side of the group’s ‘Protect, Package, Finish’ promise. Clear plastic clamshells protect and package products on display at point of sale; plastic tubing is ideal for mailing purposes as well as protecting and packaging ‘sharps’ such as needles for crochet enthusiasts and drill bits etc; and clear plastic boxes are tailored to size, delivered flat to ‘pop up’ and immaculately branded for point of sale perfection.                         

 

The range of finishing products is vast, with stock items available for despatch on the same day the order is placed. Product and components not held in stock are sourced to order. Our combined technical sales team helps to ensure that specifications are clear, deliverable and that the components will satisfy their intended application. Then our extended Customer Services department follow that order and support customers through to satisfactory completion.

 

We have managed to combine: 60 years of dip and injection moulding; long run manufacturing processes; short run flexibility; an extensive product / component range in stock and to order; procurement expertise and technical sales support skills; and an exemplary multilingual customer service record.

This means that 01622 693 200 becomes the only number you need to find cost effective solutions for Protection, Packaging and Finishing.

 

 

Protection, Packaging and Finishing

01622 693 200

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