RGE Group

RGE Group have installed a new Borche BU1000 machine to meet increasing demand from their domestic and international clients. The machine will be producing a range of large storage containers up to 65l in size in a range of colours and materials.

The BU1000 machine is of the Two Platen locking design for a more compact footprint together with additional mould height capacity and as with the full Borche range of machines employs the latest servo hydraulic systems for reduced power consumption and vastly improved energy efficiency.

RGE Group have three manufacturing plants within the UK including Whittlesey near Peterborough which houses the new Borche 1000 together with an impressive overseas network in which includes both factories and offices in the USA, China, Lithuania and Denmark, in all the Group have a total production capacity in which now employs in excess of 150 moulding machines up to and including 3150 ton together with printing, sub assembly and product design and finishing capability.

The company have now been established over 50 years and currently serve a wide range of markets and blue chip names within the following industrial sectors including White Goods, Office Furniture, Chair Bases, Material Handling Products, storage containers and technical mouldings amongst many others and continue to find growth from all sectors and the group’s annual sales turnover now exceeds £50 million.

RGE Group have invested heavily in recent times in both Moulding Machinery, Robotics and Automation and Material handling systems together with Machine Tools for the company’s in house mould toolmaking facility combined with major improvements in logistics and infrastructure as well as company wide health and safety procedures.

“We have seen significant growth in our business and have steadily grown our capacity for larger moulding. Having heard good things about Borche machines we were keen to measure it’s all round performance against our existing machinery types. We visited and inspected the machines in production at an existing Borche customer in the UK and decided to place our first order for our Whittlesey factory.”    

Gordon Leach – RGE Group Managing Director