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SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT
Delivering high performance plastics for 40 years
E-PLAS is an Australian-owned and operated company set to celebrate its 40th birthday next year. As a solutions provider to many market sectors, the team prides itself on the long-term relationships developed with market leading engineering plastics manufacturers in Europe.
The wide range of E-Plas products includes its TIVAR UHMWPE, widely used in the conveying industry for parts such as conveyor beds, tracks, guides, and rollers.
Optimisation through reuse
S&J Industrial exists to help you optimise your supply chain through reusable packaging, to deliver you financial, environmental and operational benefits.
S&J Industrial is the exclusive Australasian distributor for industry-leading ORBIS Corporation products. It specialises in customisation and has won multiple awards for its innovative work. S&J also invented the popular new B2C product, Shopbox by Optibox, which is changing the way people do their grocery shopping.
S&J Industrial says its point of difference is its consultative approach to help clients achieve supply chain goals.
Following the proven five step ORBIS approach – 1. Analyse, 2. Prove, 3. Design, 4. Implement, 5.Evolve – it digs “deep under the hood” of your supply chain to fully understand where it can deliver benefits.
S&J provides a complete savingsanalysisandpayback
forecast so customers have complete confidence in their reusable packaging investment. The
company founder’s experience – he operated the largest springwater company in Australia – ensures supply chain needs
and appropriate solutions are prescribed.
Supply chain assets include collapsing plastic bulk bins, totes, crates and baskets, and a wide range of plastic pallets.
S&J relishes the opportunity to customise assets specifically for their customers’ purpose.
Within the food industry, its bulk bins are used by beverage manufacturers, condiment producers,confectionery
companies and meat processors.
Its totes and crates are serving ready-meal producers, supermarkets and fresh produce suppliers and packers.
A selection of pallets from its pallet family are used by food logistics partners.
S&J has a solution to help optimiseyoursupplychain. ✷
The comprehensive range of TIVAR products features superior modified grades, such as the TIVAR HPV, which has a low coefficient of friction, with good wear properties that allow for improved efficiency on high speed conveyors. The TIVAR range also includes grades formulated for heavier industry applications such as chute and hopper liners.
In addition to TIVAR products, E-Plas carries a full range of engineering, and high-performance plastics that are FDA approved and suitable for food contact applications. These include SustaPEEK (PEEK), Sustarin C (Acetal), Sustamid (Nylon), Sustadur (PETP), and PTFE.
Complete with in-house manufacturing, E-Plas is a professional turnkey solutions provider. ✷
COMPANY director Eric Nelson says technology is now a vital component of the monitoring and manufacturing parts of the business. “Our equipment is now PLC controlled and laser cut to provide the precise, reliable equipment we need,” he said.
Nelson says: “We use consulting engineers that have a broad knowledge of all the
different industries and the various techniques and designs for silos to safely store and unload the material from the silos.”
The company has experience installing silos in built-up urban environments to mine sites.
Nelson says the company looks at all aspects of the installation. “The site’s soil test might tell us the foundations
Nelson Silos works closely with clients on their silo needs.
can be built with piling or may need a floating foundation over a deep concrete slab.
“At industrial facilities, there is often established infrastructure that has to be straddled or incorporated.
“We also have extensive experience handling notoriously difficult to store materials, such as mill runs, the waste product from the flour milling process.”
Once the silo design is finalised, the engineers and manufacturing team at one of the company’s three production facilities work together for the final product.
The company also transports and installs the silos around Australia, choosing not to use contractors to ensure it has total control over a quality customer experience. ✷
Operating in a silo
In 1962, Lindsay Nelson developed one of the first transportable grain silos. Almost 60 years later, Nelson Silos is still designing, building and installing silos.
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