Innovative. Collaborative. Forward Thinking. Plastic Mouldings Northern Ltd (PMN) are a regionally rooted business with the capability and capacity to operate on a global scale.
Set-up in 2002 by Freddy Bourdais and Mark Rigg, the Bishop Auckland based company are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. They have grown year on year ever since and have built up a prominent reputation across the manufacturing sector globally with customers and industry peers.
They have bolstered impressive postpandemic growth, doubling turnover in the last two years despite a pandemic, alongside staff expansion, bringing the workforce to 22, new site acquisition, increasing their square foot to 45,000 and investment in key logistics.
The main output at PMN is the production of vacuum formed plastic parts, which involves the supply of high quality and often very intricate moulded parts to an array of industries from automotive to precision engineering. The process of vacuum formed plastics requires extensive experience and expertise to achieve high quality results. The company supplies clients nationwide and internationally with recent client contracts established to Australia and New Zealand.
Their vacuum formed plastic product range is immense, their largest moulding capacity is 3 ½ x 1 ½ metre and a five axis trimming capacity of 4 x 2 metre. Over the years PMN’s wealth of knowledge and prominent reputation has seen the company work with London Underground, McLaren, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, JCB and BAE Systems.
Freddy Bourdais, Co-Founder and Sales Director, Plastic Mouldings Northern Ltd said: “We are committed to bringing investment, growth and creating sustainable jobs to support the local economy and we are delighted with the direction of the company in the last 20 years.
Collaboration and innovation has been key to our growth. We heavily invest in building relationships with our customer base and have built up many strong connections over the years. We very much look forward to embracing the next stage of growth at PMN.”
Diversification is also key at PMN, and they are the only stockist of new plastic containers and plastic pallet boxes in the North East, plus the largest dealer of reconditioned plastic pallets in the UK. PMN also partner with French firm, JOUPLAST® and hold the exclusive contract to distribute their innovative range of landscaping products across the UK and Ireland. These are stocked by Homebase, Wickes, and Amazon, with turnover in this part of the company alone hitting over £1m last year.