As the industry goes “Large” TMB has geared up it's facility to accommodate the move towards larger thermoforming machines.

TMB has also addressed the demands of APET tooling with our Design team reducing cutting issues!

 

 

Great news from Gabler who launched the new "Focus" which was much admired at the show, but more importantly for us TMB are the recommended toolmaker!

The talk at the show within the thermoforming industry was the move towards R-PET for food packaging in the UK, this is vital for the industry as R-PET contains post consumer waste.  This will hasten the move away from PVC.

Following TMB's successful visit to the K Show in Dusseldorf…..

Martin Baker returned with excellent news - “Again the K show was a big success for TMB with many enquires from Europe and in particular Eastern Europe”

News that GN had overcome APET cutting issues with the introduction into Europe of the US proven GN3625 APET machine with our sister company B&M Associates securing a sale for the machine to run in a UK plant in Scotland.

TMB is committed to developing young engineers and consistently recruits 2 apprentices per year; if you feel you have the “work ethic” and a genuine interest in engineering, send us an email to vacancies@tmb-patterns.co.uk

We are always working on new methods striving for what we call “Performance Related Tooling” such as; we are working with several customers to increase the speed of their production by putting cost effective enhancements on our tools.

Martin Baker (Managing Director) celebrated with staff on June 1st 2007 by presenting each and every member of staff a gift to mark the occasion, Martin and Sales Director Lee Singleton placed the gift at each person’s work station in the night and was there to greet them when they arrived for work.

“It was something little to mark the occasion and something that I wanted to do for all the effort the staff have put in” said Martin, adding “some members of staff have been with me over 20 years and I feel privileged that they are still here and in some cases both the individual and their families have grown up with TMB”

Recent addition to the Management Team at TMB Paddy Maclennan, who joined in May, said that “As a new person to the company I am very pleased and indeed honoured to be part of a company that has been around for 30 years”

Paddy Maclennan joined the senior Management of TMB in May 2007, Paddy has a wealth of experience in the HR arena, coupled with valuable experience in operations in general; said Martin Baker (Managing Director) “I am delighted to have Paddy on board he will complement the existing structure with his experience in many areas. He will work alongside my team of, Lee Singleton (Sales Director) and Briony Corbett (Company Secretary).