Plastic plays a practical, often life enhancing, role in our lives. The word plastic – derived from the Greek word plastikos (meaning to mould), shapes our everyday world. Plastic has come a long way from the Bakelite resin patented at the turn of the 20th...
A longstanding advocate for addressing skills shortages in the plastics sector, Jo Davis has joined the British Plastics Federation’s Education & Skills Committee. Additionally, Jo joined the plastic industry’s Trailblazer Group for the Level 4 Manufacturing...
As a company who cares about our employees, we are committed to remaining a real #LivingWage employer and have just renewed our licence for The Living Wage Foundation! This important foundation campaigns for the idea that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay...
In 2018, Broanmain Plastics hosted two young students from France, providing the interns with valuable insight to plastics processing and lean manufacturing techniques. For three months, 23-year-old Guillaume Bouvier, studying an engineering degree in plastics...
Sumitomo Demag, one of the sponsors of the 2016 program, invited Broanmain Plastics to Ben Ainsley Racing to learn more about, this initiative which supports UK plastics industry. During the day attendees explored the issues facing UK industry such as the productivity...
Dorking based Broanmain Plastics will be celebrating 60 years in business later this year and recently welcomed its local MP, Sir Paul Beresford, to its Surrey factory for a site visit. Wilf and Jo Davis head the family run business, which machines thermoplastic and...