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Who are Ebble Manufacturing?
Ebble Manufacturing, part of the Ebble Group alongside plasma and corona equipment supplier Tantec UK, work closely to take the systems offered within the group, the know how and the quality assurance to offer a subcontract treatment facility here in the UK which is most often used by UK and Irish manufacturing companies.
Whether you’re working with Tantec UK or Ebble Manufacturing – you’re able to explore both avenues of buying or using the subcontract treatment and manufacturing route.
Located in the same building as Tantec UK, both Ebble and Tantec share systems and knowhow so you can see large scale manufacturing systems as well as lab and quality systems available for demo.
Why use Ebble Manufacturing?
Ebble Manufacturing offer contract surface treatment as the core business, this can be subcontract atmospheric plasma, vacuum plasma or corona treatment.
Having access to the full range of technologies is a quick and easy way to get the processes into your design and manufacturing without having to invest heavily with machinery, skills and training or floor space and whether it’s something you plan to do for short term testing to understand if it’s the right technology for you, or whether you want on going production support, your options are open.
We also work with secondary processes, assembly and other manufacturing support. For the full range of services offered by Ebble Manufacturing, you can find out more by reading: Ebble Manufacturing – What 4 Amazing Services Are Offered?
What are the benefits of working with Ebble Manufacturing?
Ebble Manufacturing’s subcontract treatment services have quickly become popular with our diverse range of customers, some of the key reasons people have started working with us include…
Little or No Tooling Costs
Running a variety of systems and projects means that we’ve designed our onsite systems to be as flexible as possible. This often means that we can be running subcontract plasma treatment on components within minutes of receiving them and certainly with minimal upfront costs to get going. Subcontract Corona treatment for web material is usually just as easy and all we need are extra cores to suit your product.
No Contract
Our subcontract manufacturing facility is available to treat single components or pallets worth of parts with additional printing, bonding or assembly.
The flexibility we offer our customers allows you to run multiple products, book in when you need us and arrange for delivery when required. We’ve found this has been especially useful for those working on scale up manufacturing processes where busy months and quiet months have their own demands.
Try Before You Buy
Using subcontract treatment can be a really useful way of getting to know the surface treatment technology and Ebble Group Tantec as a business before committing to large systems and new processes in your own factory.
Some customers will use us for trial parts to prove the technology, while others will use us for full production while they evaluate the process, or while their own machine is being built.
No System Headaches. No Confusion.
Using Ebble Manufacturing as a subcontractor takes away machine problems and part confusion, allowing you to receive a ready to go part that works every time. This will include quality control and a material finish that doesn’t need any further processing.
This also means that any breakdowns, process issues or other day to day operating concerns are covered by us, leaving you to receive a stress free finished part.
Learn From the Experts
Bringing a new process onsite is often tricky, regardless of how easy it might seem at the demo. Plasma and corona treatment are often new processes to our customers and understanding everything about them requires training and dedicated people working on the project.
Working with Ebble Manufacturing can be a safe and productive way to gain some of this understanding. Producing parts while engineers are onsite to learn about the equipment, see the parameters and get the background to why changing one over another is the right choice, while producing products at the same time is a hands on and effective introduction to the technology.
Save Valuable Floor Space and Personnel
While some of the Tantec equipment may bolt on easily, such as the Plasma nozzles on to existing extrusion lines, others are standalone systems requiring floor space, operators, power and the quality control and part storage required to run effectively.
We support many customers who don’t want to dedicate time, resources or space to pretreatment and often support customers as a redundancy partner in case their machine or line fails. This has been a cost effective solution to those buying larger systems that couldn’t place two machines.
Expert Quality Testing
Treating materials using plasma and corona is a repeatable process, but to be extra sure we always backup treatment with quality testing using some form of surface energy testing or adhesion testing.
We have several forms of these tests, including contact angle and dyne pens and then lap shear and dolly pull tests. Based on discussions with you, we will create a test schedule that makes sense and this allows us to spot any production issues due to material changes or system issues.
Working With Ebble Manufacturing
Whether you’re wanting to explore buying, wondering if treatment will work on a new project or need ongoing manufacturing support, we’re available to help. We’ve taken on bigger, better equipment than ever before, integrated new and exciting processes and have been working in ways with customers that we haven’t been able to before.
Our doors are open and we’re always keen to offer a coffee! Come and see for yourself.
