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Tue 24 February 2009, 10h38

Zimbabwean Tie-Bar Takes a Round Trip

Recently, a Zimbabwean injection moulding company experienced difficulties with one of the tie-bars on their machine.

Local repairs had been made to the tie-bar, but it quickly failed under the clamping load.

Having dealt with MMTS before on a number of other successful projects, the customer contacted us and we agreed to take up the challenge of permanently repairing it.

The tie-bar was shipped down to our works in Germiston via road, and we were able to turn it around within 8 days. This was a great achievement by our technical team, who pulled overtime and double-time like a tag-team.

The client shipped the tie-bar back to Zimbabwe in record time and commented "We are all excited looking at that repaired tie bar which was offloaded this morning!" The tie-bar was successfully re-installed by the machine manufacturer and the client reported "Confirmed machine running smoothly on tie bar - all done!"

MMTS is particularly proud of the level of support offered to this client and the way in which our team committed themselves to the effort.