Email  To: Lalit Choudhary General Manager  From: Paul Collingwood Production Manager  Date: 22nd November 2021  Subject: Re: Paint booths extraction system _______________________________________________________________________ Lalit,  I have looked into a new extraction system for the paint booths as you requested. The average cost per paint booth would be approximately $1200 for the technology and fitting and the lead time is around 14 weeks. …

Manufacturing Facilities  Facilities include 5 PVC vacuum forming machines, 4 fully automatic PBT moulding machines and 2 extruders. The factory operates 24 hours a day over 2 shifts 6 days a week, however, not all equipment is operated for all shifts depending on the production contracts in place at any one time. All equipment and lights are left on whilst the…

Raw materials   Nigel Simmons is responsible for all the purchases of raw materials. These include plastic resins, paints, oils, solvents and packaging materials. These are all ordered in bulk and stored on site until required.   Suppliers are evaluated on price but not on their environmental performance.  Figure 1: Delivery of plastic resin for PVC sleeves  Various raw materials…

The workers carry out most of the on-site movement of raw materials. APEC Kolath has one propane gas powered forklift truck which is used to load and offload trucks and move the larger tools between machines and to the tool room.  Goods are transported according to the requirements of customers’ contracts. Generally components are transported by road within India…

Email  To: Hans Gustafson Operations Director  From: Nigel Simmons Purchasing Manager  Date: 27th December 2018  Subject: Bulk purchase of raw materials  _______________________________________________________________________  Hans,  As you know we are hoping to save money on our raw material purchases in the next few months. This can be achieved by buying in bulk rather than accepting just in time deliveries. Consequently, I…