Norman Berry

Specialities

Materials and Design

Product design
Product engineering
Tool design and sourcing

Processing

Equipment
Fibre reinforced
Foam moulding
Health and safety and training
Quality assurance

Secondary Operations

 

Commercial

Strategic planning and forecasting

Markets

Automotive
Building

Other Skills

Project management
Training
Trouble shooting

Personal Profile

Norman Berry is a resourceful and creative consultant with extensive experience within the polyurethane and composites plastics industry. He applies a practical approach to his clients' problems and resolves them in terms that are clear to both the shop floor and to the boardroom. He has a proven ability, using elastomeric, rigid and self skinning materials, to innovate and to devise novel solutions to technical challenges.

Services

Polyurethane Solutions

Product

He is able to carry out a value analysis of the design of the product, together with an assessment of the method of manufacture.

Planning

Project planning undertaken, including budgeting, from the concept of the product through to point of sale. 

Process

He advises on manufacturing techniques, tooling options and finishing operations. Spraying, casting, low or high pressure pouring, RIM, RRIM, SRIM.

Plant

Plant specification, selection and layout for the product, ranging from low volume batch quantities through to continuous production.

With his flexible style of working, Norman Berry is able to resolve an individual moulding problem or manage the installation of a complete turnkey operation, whether it is for the aerospace, motor, building or any other industry. 

He has experience of rapid prototyping large components, such as vehicle body panels, using polyurethanes.

Quality control and health and safety issues are considered high priorities in any installation and any shortcomings can be identified and recommendations made.

Technical assessments of companies are undertaken for acquisition purposes. This would include appraising the material suppliers, assessing the manufacturing processes, including quality control. 

Contact Address

N Berry Polyurethanes, 2 Yew Tree Drive, Gotherington, Cheltenham, GL52 9HB.

Tel: 01242 672 881

Fax: 01242 676 073