Graham Croudace has been appointed Technical Moulding Manager at SDA, Graham comes with a sound technical background in Injection moulding with Years of Automotive injection moulding experience. Lately Graham has been on board as a contractor at SDA encompassing NPI and training, these roles will still be part of his remit as will the running of the moulding department at St Davids Assemblies.

Further investment at SDA is headlined by the purchase of a £50,000 latest design 3D vision system, this enables real-time data comparison for components. It will write and prepare ISIR inspection reports, check and record customer data reports as well as giving instant feed back to the shopfloor

As is our stated policy to replace all old machines with new electric moulding machines, it is also our intention to buy additional fully electric machines for new business growth.

To this end we have taken delivery of a new 50t Intelect machine, configured to our specifications, for new business gained at Southern manufacturing show this year.

This is the second machine ordered this year already and more are planned, this proves our sustainable growth in the business is being backed at the highest level in the Otter Group.

SDA have installed a new 180t Intelect, which will be the 5th machine ordered in the last 12 months. This machine replaces an old (1997) 200t Arburg with all electric technology, which we believe is the future of sustainable economic injection moulding.