Boddingtons has announced a multimillion-pound investment that will see the injection moulding company expand its Class 7 cleanroom. Construction work started in January and completion is expected by the end of February 2020.
Headquartered in Tonbridge Kent, England, Boddingtons is a well-known medical device and Med-Tech supplier.
The new facility will be created inside Boddingtons' £4.6m purpose-built factory building that was launched by Lord Digby Jones some three years ago.
At 225 sqm in size, the footprint of the expansion is just 10 sqm short of the existing facility, Boddingtons said.
The project has been designed to allow the potential housing of further eight injection moulding production cells and supplementary assembly lines; in addition to the eight production cells currently in the original facility.
"We are delighted that market demand continues to drive our capacity to make Class 1 and Class 2 medical devices," said Boddingtons CEO Andy Tibbs. "This new Class 7 cleanroom expansion is but part of a new wave of significant investment that includes state-of-the-art vision and contact measuring equipment and the prestigious MDSAP qualification," he added.
Boddingtons has won the Plastics Industry Awards (PIA) four times for the category of Industrial Design. Three of those winners have been for ground-breaking medical devices.
The pace of Boddingtons Med-Tech design and manufacturing innovation is not set to slacken during 2020.
Boddingtons will exhibit again at Med-Tech Innovation EXPO at the NEC, April 1-2, 2020. It will also show at Medical Technology Ireland, Galway, September 23-24 and at Medica Compamed, Düsseldorf, November 16-19, 2020.
