The Washington plastics company leading the North East to a greener future

A Washington-based plastics manufacturer has helped its customers ‘do more with less’ and use plastic in new ways reducing the effect that single-use plastic packaging has on the environment.

Omega Plastics is using its years of expertise to help clients operating across numerous market sectors to develop multi-use products from plastic that have a positive impact on the planet and now, the firm is urging fellow manufacturers to do the same.

Dave Crone, group managing director at Omega Plastics, said: “As a manufacturer, we recognise that it’s our responsibility to drive change across the industry through ongoing development to use plastic more sustainably, which is what we are trying to achieve at Omega Plastics.

“As a material, plastic is incredibly useful. Its flexibility and lightweight characteristics make it very effective in applications across various different industry sectors and if used in the right way, can actually deliver energy-saving and environmental benefits.

“At Omega Plastics, we are dedicated to helping customers, whether blue chip or startup, to create new products from plastic that reduce the material’s negative environmental impact.”

Andrew Brooks, founder of pokito.

One example of an environmentally-friendly product innovation produced by Omega Plastics is the pokito, as Bdaily has previously highlighted.

The pokito is a reusable travel cup which can be adjusted to match the size of the user’s drink (from 8oz espresso to 16oz grande) and has been designed to collapse for super portability and easy storage.

In addition to its eco-friendly product development, Omega Plastics is also dedicated to operating its manufacturing units as ‘greenly’ as possible.

Dave added: “In the last 12 months, we have invested over £250k in new, eco-friendly, all-electric injection moulding machinery for our facilities in Hartlepool, Washington and Blyth to help improve the efficiency of our processes and reduce our energy consumption.

“All of our factories feature automatic, eco-friendly lighting and all of the plastic waste produced by our factories is recycled in line with the legal requirements set out by the Environment Agency.”

Specialising in plastic injection moulding and tooling, Omega Plastics provides plastic manufacturing solutions to customers operating across the automotive, medical and FMCG sectors.

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