BNL doubles thailand
manufacturing facility to meet
demand in automotive, domestic
appliance and atm markets
BNL has completed the expansion of its For the longer term, the new Thailand by their support for our expansion and
plastic bearing operations in Thailand, facility also has the option to not just understanding of how our growth will
moving operations to a state-of-the- double, but triple the previous factory in turn offer them new and improved
art, larger facility, adjacent to the footprint, to 75,000 sq. ft., increasing the services with which to develop and grow
existing building. BNL Thailand supplies current number of injection moulding plastic bearings to several industries, machines on site by threefold, expanding their own businesses.”
including automotive, food processing, assembly services and tripling the photocopiers, domestic appliances and workforce.
ATM customers. The new 50,000 sq. ft.
facility in Rayong will double capacity to The move to the new facility, managed
support increasing demand on existing almost exclusively by the BNL Thailand
products and new business wins in key Management Team, took place throughout
markets. August and September making the site
fully operational in October.
BNL Thailand houses injection moulding,
BNL COMPANY PROFILE
BNL is the world leader in specialist
plastic bearing solutions and has been
at the cutting-edge of plastic bearing
technology for nearly 50 years. We
design and manufacture high-quality
plastic bearings and assemblies for global
players in various industries including
Steering Columns, Automotive Controls &
manual and automated assembly Jonathan Wilkinson, CEO of BNL stated, functions, mirroring the established UK “Our team in Thailand have done a HQ operations, with the Knaresborough, fantastic job in making this development North Yorkshire site also housing R&D, happen quickly and efficiently. I engineering, product design, quality, shouldn’t be surprised; we employ great prototyping, tooling design and tool people in all our facilities and Thailand manufacturing facilities in Knaresborough,
development capabilities. BNL China also is no exception. Our customers are Shanghai and Rayong, Thailand.
offer additional machining services at our other key partners, collaborating their Shanghai site. with us to develop innovative plastic www.bnl-bearings.com
bearing solutions. We are encouraged www.plastic-bearings.com
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Domestic Appliances. BNL’s headquarters
are in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
with additional offices in the USA, Japan
and China. We also have purpose-built