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MATTHEW HOLLYOAKE, BOLE UK SALES MANAGER, EVALUATES THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF 2021, AND LOOKS FORWARD TO A PROSPEROUS 2022.

2021 has been a highly challenging year for the UK plastics industry. From lockdowns, material price increases and shortages, to more politically relative issues such as container prices and import delays, UK manufacturers have had to show their mettle, as well as their resilience. As a leading supplier of premium injection moulding machinery and components, BOLE Machinery Limited has managed to support its new and existing customers through these challenges with new machines well-kept delivery promises.

We are very proud to announce an extremely successful 2021 for BOLE, a year in which we have acquired 11 new customers, as well as a record number of machine orders and deliveries.

Furthermore, and in summary of our long list of successes over the past year, we also became proud members of the highly respected industry organisations PMMDA Trade Association and the British Plastics Federation, a huge honour. and left with orders. I would therefore like to extend a great big thank you to the Interplas UK team and organisation, and we are already looking forward to returning to Birmingham NEC in 2023.

We also attended our fi rst Plastics Industry Awards as a Prime Machinery fi nalist, which was a great honour and recognition of our hard work. As the year came to a close, we became a BOLE PARTNER for the UK and Ireland, which now gives us the security to buy a larger facility in the UK to help and support our European colleagues with available stock machines and spares.

After a very successful Christmas promotion on our stock machines, we had to start the new year 2022 with an empty showroom. Thankfully, however, our new stock machines arrived a few days ago to fi ll up our showroom once again, giving us a full complement of machine tonnage ranging from 100-350t, all ready for immediate delivery.

2022 has started on a very positive note with In late September, BOLE Machinery Limited six new machine orders (some of which are made its in inaugural appearance at the UK’s multiple) from six new customers in the UK that biggest plastics and rubber industry trade have now joined the BOLE Family and taken fair, Interplas, at the NEC in Birmingham. The advantage of our stock machine availability. event turned out to be a real eye opener into Our EKS Servo Hydraulic machines with how successfully we could collaborate with unparalleled energy effi ciency and reliability various players and stakeholders from across makes this choice the only one on your new the plastics manufacturing value year’s resolution list. chain – from materials suppliers and automation equipment specialists, Matthew Holyoake is responsible for machine to recyclers and converters – and and project sales across the whole of the UK in spite of the many obstacles and Ireland along with the management of the Resolutions for 2022 1. Eat healthy thrown our way. We received an overwhelming welcome and a huge number of visitors to the BOLE stand, many of whom came with enquiries sales team to ensure the rapid sales growth continues. Be Better - Buy BOLE 2. Get fit 3. Drink more water 4. Be Better 5. Buy Bole The Interplas event turned out to be a

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