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NIMIX Custom Designed Plant for Mixing Woodstainer

Customer

Sonneborn and Reick, UK

Product and Service

NIMIX supplied two 1,320 gallon (5,000 liter) and two 528 gallon (2,000 liter) NIMIX blenders with weigh cells, and all the associated pumps, filters, pipework, control instrumentation and gantry. It also installed and commissioned the plant.

Problem

Spirit-based finishes for furniture were due to be phased out. All manufacturers were required to change to environmentally friendlier water-based coatings under the Environmental Protection Act. S&R needed a new plant that would be flexible, and one which would provide its customers with rapid response manufacture on a just-in-time basis.

Objective

The objective was to utilize the benefits of NIMIX technology in a custom designed plant which would provide the following capabilities:

  • flexible manufacture of woodstainers
  • plant comprising 528 gallon (2,000 litre) and 1,320 gallon (5,000 litre) maximum batch size capability systems
  • manufacture to actual sales on a JIT basis

Approach

NIMIX Engineers designed the special plant to meet S&R's requirements.

Outcome

S&R claims its NIMIX plant, a major new investment at its Chesterfield site, will give it greatly increased production capacity, putting it in the front rank of global finishing manufacturers.

S&R's Production Director, John Colthorpe said: "Our plant incorporates high levels of flexibility, enabling a wide range of different products - lacquers, stains and water-based UV - to be manufactured, while maintaining low lead times. It means our customers can get exactly the finish which meets their need and get it quickly."

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