MASKING – TAPES, CAPS & PLUGS
Greentree masking and protection solutions Greentree are the sole UK and Ireland supplier of Caplugs branded masking & protection products with over 70 years’ experience providing engineered solutions to masking and protection problems. Greentree offers parts in a wide variety of materials, with over 13,000 standard products to meet the most demanding of applications and environments. They are renowned for providing custom solutions - whether it be for powder coating, wet painting, plating, anodising, shot peening, plasma spray or just component protection. With Greentree's in-house manufacturing facilities, extensive UK stocks and a team of experienced design engineers, they provide cost effective solutions to increase productivity, reduce waste, provide a consistent component finish and protect products during manufacture, transportation and storage.
Custom Solutions Greentree offer a range of custom solutions; with an in-house engineering design team, and an extensive range of materials to solve even the most demanding of applications. Whether you are looking for a custom die cut, rubber shapes and moulding or injection moulding; they have a dedicated team to oversee projects from concept, design, to finished article. With a strict drawing approval service and rapid prototyping capabilities, they provide a quality service for
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your bespoke solutions. Read more for further details on specific custom areas: https://greentree-eng.co.uk/custom-maskingsolutions/
flange protectors and much more. All you need from a single source to protect your components from damage and unnecessary and costly reworking.
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Masking Products
Industries from Aerospace to Automotive, Off-Shore to Electronics all benefit from the knowledge and expertise of over 70 years experience together with investment in facilities to provide customers with a service second to none. Greentree have been at the forefront of innovation, and along with the standard product range are able to manufacture non-standard parts in a variety of materials to meet your industry specific needs: For details of industry applications, and related products please follow link: https://greentree-eng.co.uk/applications/
Greentree, with over 70 year’s experience, is today recognised as a world leading designer and manufacture of product masking systems.
Protection & Finishing Having made your product, you need protection during its final finishing operations or when its shipped or stored. Greentree offer over 12,000 different standard products in both metric and imperial sizes and threads, readily available to ship to you. From hydraulic fittings or flange protection, to electronic connectors they are designed to protect the most delicate or robust of threads, studs, apertures and surfaces from the egress of surface finishing operations, dirt or damage. Designs that are easy and fast to fit and remove, such as anti-static, rust resistant, high or low temperature, dip or injection moulded caps, thread protectors, pipe and
With facilities worldwide Greentree offer over 12,000 standard products in both metric and imperial sizes. Available in a wide range of materials many of the products are re-usable offering operating temperatures up to 315°C. Caps, plugs and other designs together with their tape solutions ensure that most masking requirements can be easily solved in a fast and efficient manner both during masking and removal. Where a custom design is required the Greentree in-house team of engineers are there to help with a cost effective solution and should you require their components kitted, bagged and shipped to you on a scheduled basis they can help.
Tapes and Discs Greentree offers an extensive range of tapes sourced from the leading tape manufacturers including Caplugs, 3M and others that are approved and used by industry and companies from aerospace to electronic, automotive to off-shore. Offering operating temperatures up to 315°C, and with or without an easy release adhesive leaving no residue, materials including lead, aluminium foil, polyester,
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