The Plastics Design and Moulding exhibition this year had an extensive range of seminars; Kavia attended six seminars over the two days and found them informative and insightful. This article is about the future of plastics presented by Smithers … [Read more...]
Charity Ride with Dan Exelby
Kavia Business Development Manager Iain Hill took time out of his working day on Wednesday 26th June to join friend Dan Exelby on his 4th day of 7 riding through 25 counties to celebrate 25 years since Dan was given the all clear from Leukaemia. As … [Read more...]
Plastics Design and Moulding – PDM 2013 visit
The Plastics Design and Moulding exhibition and conference is specifically aimed at the design and moulding aspects of the UK's plastics industry. Visiting PDM is completely free of charge for industry participants and has a broad section of … [Read more...]
2K Bow Ball update – orders are growing
Further to the case study article, Kavia’s Iain Hill never goes to a regatta without a bow ball in his pocket so he promote and get feedback for the product as there is always opportunity to network in the boat area, river or lakeside. Recently he … [Read more...]
Kavia Moulded Products – Wordle on our news blog
Ran a Wordle word cloud on our news blog makes for some interesting reading. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Too many items to list but the most common are; kavia, design, tool, rowing, … [Read more...]
British Rowing Masters Championship 2013
Not only do Kavia Moulded Products design, tool and manufacture products for rowing and sculling, our product manager Iain Hill is still an active rower and was competing in this years Masters Championships hosted at the Nottingham Watersports Centre … [Read more...]
First year summary of Kavia Business Development role
Iain hill has completed his first year with Kavia Moulded Products as their Business Development Manager. Very pleased with progress and achieving; Just over 10% growth from new customers Welcomed 20 new customers from UK & as far as … [Read more...]
UK versus China injection mould tool project
Kavia Moulded Products is working with Loughborough Product Design student Guy Newsom on his ‘clipa’ project. Guy asked us to illustrate the differences between a UK and China injection mould tool project. Kavia Business Development Manager Iain Hill … [Read more...]
Lobster trap case study – injection moulded project in 7 weeks
Kavia design partners TRIG Creative recently designed a lobster trap for use in the Caribbean to catch and cultivate spiny lobster hatchlings. Working closely with Kavia Moulded Products Ltd the product was designed, tooled, sampled and 5,000 … [Read more...]
Exhibition visit – Railtex 2013
Kavia Business Development Manager Iain Hill attended the Railtex exhibition at Earls Court, London to visit with existing rail sector customers for our standard rail and tram components such as ferrules, bushes, top hats and EVA pads. In addition it … [Read more...]
Exhibition visit to Buy Yorkshire
On Wednesday 24th April Kavia visited the Buy Yorkshire event in Leeds. With over 170 exhibitors across 2 halls including our design partners TRIG Creative it was an exploratory visit to see what this Yorkshire region specific event had to offer … [Read more...]
Oxford Blues, update on our 2K Bow Ball for OUBC
We have titled this article ‘Oxford Blues’ for a number of reasons: If you race for Oxford you get a ‘Blue’ and the first boats are called ‘Blue Boats’ the reserve boats get a ‘Half Blue’. Kavia had our 2K Bow Ball coloured strengthened core matched … [Read more...]
Trade Shows Kavia are visiting in 2013
Kavia Moulded Products are visiting a number of trade shows the remainder this year and thought we would highlight a few to you. Benefits for us and our customers in general is we expose ourselves to industry and consumer sectors, new technologies, … [Read more...]
Plastics Industry, challenges facing the sector
The UK injection moulding industry employs nearly 200,000 people and generates millions of pounds for the domestic economy yet all the general public seem to read or hear about the industry is about plastic bags and the damage caused to the … [Read more...]
How does the 2013 Budget affect UK Manufacturing?
George Osborne told a packed and noisy House of Commons that the UK's economy is heading in the right direction but what changes has he put in place to help UK manufactures and SME's like Kavia Moulded Products. We now know our injection moulding … [Read more...]
Kavia 2K bow ball on the Oxford Boat Race crews
Added this article ahead of the newsletter circulation date of the 12th of each month because the Women’s Boat Race is on the 24th March in Henley and the Men’s on 31st March on the Tideway in London. It was agreed some time ago that the Kavia … [Read more...]
How would Kavia use the new Google Glass product?
The Google Glass is a wearable device mounted on bespoke frames to wear like glasses. For those that don't need visual correction there are no lenses, just the frame and device body. The right-side mounted hardware has an offset from natural line of … [Read more...]
UK Manufacturing is a cost effective option
Well times are changing and a lot of offshore injection moulding is returning to the UK. Kavia Moulded Products have been working on a number customer plastic component opportunities doing cost comparisons with their China and Malaysia placed work … [Read more...]
Customer Questionnaire – Feedback to survey results
Firstly, thank you to those that took the time to vote. We are very grateful for the feedback given such a positive response and areas to improve. The open rate of the campaign was 4.1% higher than the manufacturing industry rate. Lessons … [Read more...]
Kavia products update – BLMB Kit and 2K Bow Ball
Just a quick update on the two products we have developed, the BLMB Kit is a functional bracket for mounting bicycle lights to rowing, sculling, kayak and canoe craft that needs lights whilst training early mornings or evenings. We have a UK … [Read more...]
