PVCu systems specialist Status Systems has invested £60,000 in a third silo store at its Oldham based extrusion plant. With growing sales and a new 70mm PVCu system concept - zendow - the company had a real need for additional compound storage both in terms of quantity and material type.
The new silo increases Status' compound capacity to 300 tonnes - an increase of 50 per cent on its existing stores. This gives the company an extra 100,000 metres of profile which can be extruded from on site compound stocks.

‘We have had a stunning 2004 so far, in which sales have risen by 14 per cent on last year,’ said Status general manager Chris Foreman. ‘Our sales team has written over 20 new accounts. This combined with the launch of zendow (more about this on page 14 of this issue) is making Status a very busy place to be at the moment.’

18 months ago the company installed its first two 95 tonne silos to store the company's regular supply of Decom compound. This exercise has enabled the company to achieve considerable cost and time efficiencies in terms of minimising the labour required for loading and unloading the original boxes of compound.

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Glass Age