This month sees a further integration of our sales and design processes and the arrival of Justin Herd, our new technical sales administrator.  With a background of bespoke design and production in Process Engineering and Naval Architecture/ Manufacture, Justin aims to bring a connective understanding of the sales- design- manufacture process and further maintain our commitment to providing world class products and services.

           “As we develop and integrate our Sales, Design and Manufacturing Processes and extend the use of CAD CAM alongside design & sales reference data basing, we increase our ability to understand our customers’ needs and industry specific requirements.” J.Herd

As we integrate the ‘Solidworks’ software into our design process we are seeing a wealth of opportunities to not only improve our efficacy and efficiency, but also to improve design communication with our customers through the use of 3D rendering and animation.   We are also making use of ‘edrawings’ to provide active documents which allow our customers to review, rotate designs in 3D, create section drawings, mark up and measure.

Example of a typical 3 piece moulding tool.          Part shown in red

We have recently acquired the  suite of software to enable us to increase design productivity. The software capabilities include advanced photorealistic rendering, automated cost estimation, eDrawings® Professional collaboration capabilities, automated design and drawing checking, and a sophisticated components and parts library.

This should enable us to work more easily with clients with existing models, but also clients who do not have CAD facilities can receive assistance in the design of their parts and the tooling needed to produce them.

Kay-Dee are pleased to announce the placement of our first apprentice, James Blackwell, pictured here (right) with Shaun Turner, as assistant technician to help with our very busy, recently expanded tool making department.

James became the 100th apprentice to be placed through the Bradford Apprenticeship Training Agency.

We look forward to channelling his enthusiasm in ways that will be beneficial to him, ourselves and, very importantly, our customers.

Kay-Dee are pleased to announce the formation of a new company - Kaylan Offshore Limited - specialising in the manufacture and supply of high performance Kaylan Polyurethane parts to the Offshore industry.

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Kay-Dee have recently commissioned two further CNC machines to expand our tool making capacity. Together with our existing lathes and mill, these additional machines will help us maintain our ability to meet demanding delivery schedules.

                             The last despatch date for deliveries of your Kaylan parts before Christmas will be Thursday 19th December 2013 for our UK customers.

Overseas customers are advised to contact the sales department prior to placing an order.

On behalf of all the staff at Kay-Dee we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We will re-open for business on Monday 6th January 2014.

Kay-Dee have successfully completed three large contracts for sub sea applications.

Despite demanding deadlines, all three were delivered on time to exacting schedules.

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We have just returned from exhibiting at the world's largest trade exhibition - Bauma 2013 in Munich.

We showcased a range of our high performance polyurethane mouldings for the mining and quarrying industries. It was good to meet up with some of our existing customers and also to have a high level of interest from several new companies.

We were able to demonstrate how we can replace metal parts with our hard-wearing, resilient engineering plastics offering benefits in weight savings and durability.

If you would like more information about our bespoke mouldings or our range of standard products, sheeting and film the please contact us at

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