INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW WITH PAUL MASON MD of Nordell Plastics Winner of the: MDHUB RESPECT 2020/21 Leaders Award for MD of the Year Interviewed by Fiona Shafer – MD of MDHUB
Paul Mason is MD of Nordell Plastics, one of the UK’s leading and independent plastics manufacturing and design refinement companies based in Worthing. We have been working with Paul since 2019. A regular contributor at our MDHUB Peer groups, we know that Paul loves structure more than most, management models and frankly anything that will make it better for his team and the business – so when the pandemic was added into the mix we were really interested to see how Paul in particular would approach it.
Well, rather well as it happens…. Paul’s brilliant engineering mind is perfect for problem solving and never has that fine mind been more challenged but also stimulated in the past 18 months. Building upon Nordell’s core values of pride, effort, strength, respect, support and trust, Paul and his team have had (and continue to have) significant achievements in 2020 - 21
n Being classed as an essential business manufacturing critical parts, they remained open throughout – even though there was an immediate effect on reduced orders n Thinking quickly, they capitalised on an opportunity to manufacture medical consumables that required cleanroom manufacturing, requiring revised business planning and raising significant capital. This was not enough to fulfil demand so another one had to be built and production had to be extended to 24/7 working.
❛❛ Paul’s brilliant engineering
mind is perfect for problem solving and never has that fine mind been more challenged ❜❜
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