Lord Digby Jones opens Boddingtons' £4.6m injection moulding plant in Kent, UK
Some 15% of the new floor space will initially be used as modular Class 7 cleanroom manufacturing
The new £4.6m advanced moulding environment at Boddingtons now includes expandable Class 7 cleanrooms, reducing bioburden and particulates, as well as white rooms and disaster recovery safeguards.
Based in Marden, Kent, Boddingtons provides high-quality, cost-effective injection moulding and contract manufacturing services for the medical and technical sectors.
The company said it expected demand for these cleanroom services to be immediate.
The new facility also offers new staff facilities, customised computer, communications and server facilities, hardware and software, daylight lighting, ergonomic systems of building control and energy efficiency and many other features.
Managing Director Andy Tibbs paid tribute to the 80 plus years of manufacturing history at Boddingtons and to the current programme of company development; including an ambitious programme of capital investment; training in lean manufacturing and a pro-active policy of partnering with proactive businesses and early stage manufacturers.
Tibbs added: ‘What our customers deserve – and what they get – is precision and world-class injection moulding and a flexible assembly capability, which includes finished components and shelf-ready packaged components. Our new factory space – our destination for all of these competencies – will further enable the development of these new resources and new business.'
