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PRODUCTS & PROCESSES
New business Plastratum brings
together leading players in the
design and manufacture of process
and effluent treatment plant
Plastratum Limited,
founded in 2018, is a
Surface Finishing specialist
to the aerospace and
engineering industries.
It is a new venture from
the owners of the UK’s
major plastic fabrication
business Roperhurst
Limited, bringing together
leading minds from the UK’s
plating, coating and effluent
control market, backed up
by an in-house design and
manufacturing team in its
premises on Armoury Road
in the heart of Birmingham.
Chairing the team is Roperhurst’s Chief
Executive Phillipe de Wilde, alongside MD
Bob Lane. With more than 40 years’
experience in fabrication and installation
of plastic tanks and vessels, pipework,
ductwork and scrubbers, both are well
placed to ensure that Plastratum’s quality
and compliance is second to none and adds
to the group’s existing centres of excellence
for Polymer engineering.
Leading the team in Birmingham is Technical
Manager Mike Taylor. Mike has 20 years’
experience in design, specification, sales and
chemical commissioning of industrial effluent
treatment equipment, and is considered a
leader in his field.
Bringing nearly half a century of plating
experience is Roger Speck. Roger is very
well known throughout the metal finishing
industry, with over 40 years’ experience in
sales, chemical engineering design and
marketing of both manually operated and
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Fully automatic parallel plating
and Chemical Processing plant
with cross transfer.
fully automatic NDT plant and equipment.
In addition to his vast commercial experience,
Roger was also Chairman of the Midlands
Branch of the Institute of Metal Finishing for
five years and a lecturer at Aston University
for the IMF technician’s courses.
Glenn Williams, who has been with
Roperhurst since 2016, brings close to
50 years of experience in the design
and manufacture of fume extraction and
scrubbing systems. Glenn is highly respected
throughout the industry, starting his education
with Plastic Constructions Ltd in October
1969 and went on to become the preferred
sub-contractor to Canning Engineering,
Electroloid and OMI.
Our Birmingham manufacturing team,
supplemented by fabrication and site
resources in other group companies based
in South Wales and Hampshire, means that
Plastratum benefits from expansive and
integrated production facilities and is
excellently placed to deliver high quality
fully commissioned plant to sites anywhere
in the world.
Plastratum is currently working on projects
JANUARY 2019
around Electroplating, Metal Finishing
and Chemical Cleaning plants and NDT
equipment, supported by personnel with
over 80 years of experience in their
respective fields.
Our automatic plants have an integrated
software which allows the benefit of dynamic
real time product traceability and summation
which also enables NADCAP certification
and designed for future expansion and
in a number of installations substantially
increasing present productive outputs which
represents a major productivity benefits for
our customers.
Fully automatic operation of the plating
plant is provided by our Total Operations
Processing System embracing product
traceability, management data output and
maintenance scheduling all achievable with
diagnostic support and programme changes
dynamically from the company’s offices.
Our electroplating plant and equipment
for vat and barrel plating of engineered
components with the creation of
environments for high quality production
is synonymous with the technology and
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