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case study - wash day tabletsA market leader of cleaning products contacted Cox & Plant to assist with a new washday product. Cox and Plant have significant experience in new product innovation and developing bespoke systems for new processes.
They have many processing facilities however, none of these managed to achieve the correct results for their new product. In early trials Lever Faberge used belt conveyors but found this had limitations.
The Cox & Plant system met all the requirements as well as significantly reducing dust generation, which is a common issue when producing powdered products. This was achieved via 'Quick Release Clamping'™ covers, which were further enhanced by the addition of Flexible silicon airtight diaphragms. This had the added benefit of enabling operatives to work comfortably in a clean air environment.
Rigorous in-house trials were supervised by the customer and are now producing 1,000,000 washday tablets per week, which equates to 416,000,000 shirts being washed every year. This is achieved within a system which is also easy to hygiene and virtually maintenance free.
Once again payback of this system equates to less than six months production and with an expected life span of 25 years, the Cox & Plant success story continues apace.
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This is what we think at Cox & Plant:If you buy cheap-you buy twice! It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money-that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot-it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better. JOHN RUSKIN 1819-1900 |
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