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Cutting Plastic Angle Trim To The Required Length

If you are wanting to fix plastic angle trim to a surface you may need to cut it to the required length first. The best way to cut our products is with a fine-toothed rotary saw. This will give you a neater cut than using a wide-toothed saw as it will reduce burred and jagged....

At MKM Extrusions we have 45 different sizes of plastic angle trim, and each is available in both white and black. So that’s a lot of choice! How do you decide which best suits your project?

How Many Metres of Plastic Angle Trim Do I Need?

Firstly, you need to know how many metres of plastic angle you need in total. All our stock....

We believe that the prices of our plastic extrusions are very competitive. That means like for like, for exactly the same plastic extrusion product made with the same standard of quality.

We are totally transparent with our pricing as all prices are listed on our online shop. This is something that is not a widespread practice in the plastic extrusion industry. We have over 600 off the shelf plastic profiles and do not have a minimum spend. All we require is that complete packs need to be purchased. Our stock plastic products are sold in packs....

We recently visited the Interplas exhibition, the UK's leading plastics industry event. Solutions, products, machines and ideas are presented to the UK manufacturing industry. Interplas covers manufacturing processes, technologies and services essential to the plastics sector.

Interplas is a three-day event and we visited on days one and two. We were not in the marketplace for buying as we have recently made significant machinery investments and are happy with our....

MKM Plastics + MKM Extrusions - Why Do We Use Two Names?

There are many plastics manufacturing companies in the UK, the majority of which are plastic moulders. We are not plastic moulders, we are plastic extruders and our name reflects how we use a different process.

Our full name is MKM Extrusions Ltd, the name we are registered as and the name given to customers when they contact us by phone. If you call us we will say "MKM Extrusions, how can I help you?" That is who we are and extrusion is what we do.

We know that a wide array of words are typed into Google when trying to source plastic extrusions. Despite the fact that almost all industries use extrusions, many people are not familiar with the word and would search instead for trims, profiles or sections. Or often something else entirely! Even if the word 'extrusion' is familiar to the person searching, spelling variations can be entered into the search bar.

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Good news for the UK construction sector

The UK construction sector ended 2016 well, expanding at the fastest pace for nine months in December, according to a closely watched survey. Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 54.2 in December, up from 52.8 the month before, and a figure above 50 indicates expansion.

Residential building activity remained the best performing sub-category at the end of 2016. Moreover, the latest expansion of housing activity was the fastest since January. Work on civil engineering projects also picked up at a robust pace in December, while commercial construction increased marginally.

Construction companies reported an upbeat assessment for their growth prospects in 2017. Around half of the survey panel anticipate a rise in business activity during the next 12 months. The degree of business confidence edged up to a three-month high during December, with a number of construction firms citing optimism that strong order books would help alleviate Brexit-related turbulence in 2017.

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Demand for UK manufacturing

UK manufacturing has recently seen a resurgence. This has been driven by many factors, including:

• Reduction of the wage gap (especially in China)
• Slow lead times
• Volatile international transport costs
• Supply chain risks
• Desire for better control quality

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In August of this year we had a double celebration as we were successful in upgrading our quality and environmental accreditation to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015. We have been accredited with both standards for many years: ISO 9001 since 2001 and ISO 14001 since 2002....