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Problem Solving

Motorbike Components

John Shirt, a trials bike specialist, was fed up with spending a fortune on replacing the rear mudguard on his motor bike. It was always being snapped due to the mounting being solid. He knew that there must be a better alternative and approached Vacuum Formers with his idea. We worked closely with John on initial designs and produced a prototype for him to test. The end product is a guard made of 4mm polythene - which is about as a tough as you get. It was secured to the motorbike with flexible zip ties to allow a degree of give on impact, the mounting holes were reinforced and metal ferrules fitted as standard. The mudguard went into full production and is now available retail in either red or white.

Medical Mouldings

Europa Scientific are a company who design manufacture medical items. They came to us when they needed assistance producing a post operative oxygen mask.

The plastic needed to be highly durable and capable of being sterilised. We have great knowledge of the types of plastic available and were quickly able to select the correct material.

Hats

We were visiting a tourist mine and noticed that after the visitors had finished using the hard hats they were thrown untidily into boxes. It didn't take us long to come up with a better solution. We produced and tested a prototype of a moulded 'head' for the hard hats to be stored on when not in use.

When we presented this to the tourist mine they were amazed at how simple and effective our solution was. The 'heads' were soon put into position on custom made shelves and are still in use today.

Easter Eggs

We were pleased to offer assistance to Cheshire Confectionery who came to us with an unusual request. They were attempting to produce an extremely large chocolate Easter Egg and had problems finding a mould that met their requirements.

We were able to make them this mould and we even helped them out when it came to removing the chocolate from the mould. Cheshire Confectionery were delighted with the result and so was the recipient of the enormous Easter Egg.

Golf Buggy

The Pennine Driver is a golf buggy that folds to fit in the boot of a car. It was put into production by Pennine Radio Ltd who approached us when they needed a lightweight battery and motor cover. Plastic was the obvious material to use and we were delighted to assist in the production of such an ingenious item.

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