MechChem Africa May-June 2023
⎪ Local manufacturing and food processing ⎪
Can SA’s steel master plan revitalise the local steel sector? PFERD, the local and global specialist in high quality cutting, surface preparation and finishing, comments on SA’s steel master plan and highlights the role training through the PFERDAcademy can help address some of the industry’s challenges. Baires Plastics invests in GreenTech Plastics Machinery Automotive component manufacturer Baires Plastics of South Africa has invested in a win ning combination of WINTEC plastic injection moulding machines and HKTM robots from GreenTech Plastics Machinery. the decision to go the WINTEC route. In ad dition, he highlights the proactive service he receives from GreenTech, with its expertise and technicians a phone call away. and JC Jonker have been involved with the planning, installation, and commission ing at Baires Plastics. Keller says that the HKTM robots have integrated seamlessly with the WINTEC machines. Being only the second HKTM installation of its kind in the country, it presented a learning curve for GreenTech as well. As for the WINTECs, Keller says it is cutting-edge technology with excellent controls.
The ultra-low scrap rate of WINTEC Moulding machines – about 0.02% – signifi cantly reduces the company’s cost of doing business and helps in complying with the automotive component sector’s stringent quality assurance standards and procedures. Another major benefit is energy efficiency, especially with persistent loadshedding. Acquiring the WINTEC machines combined with the HKTM robots offered repeatability and efficiency in terms of Baires’ produc tion process. GreenTech MD Patrick Bracke
Baires Plastics MD, Nick Keller, explains that the business was established by his father in 1988 and acquired its first plastic injection moulding machines in 1996. It has been expanding ever since, to the point where the company acquired its first big machines in 2015 and 2017 as it focused on simple trim polypropylene products to shoot-and-ship for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the automotive sector. Baires is a Tier 2 supplier
From arriving at Baires Plastics to being fully set up took only four days. As for current performance, Keller says the machines were acquired for a specific project and are running at capacity now. The investment in the latest technology from GreenTech has catapulted the company to the level of being a reliable Tier 2 automotive component supplier,
that, in turn, supplies components to Tier 1 suppliers that deal di rectly with the OEMs. JC Jonker, GreenTech
with the future possibility of a direct OEM contract thanks
to the consistent quality and throughput the company is now able to maintain. greentech machinery.co.za
Head of Sales and Projects, contacted Keller after it began dis tributing the WINTEC brand. Such has been the growth of the family busi ness that Keller eventually took
WINTEC from GreenTech offers cutting-edge plastic injection moulding technology for the automotive sector.
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