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Indian Floods
As Global sourcing companies, both EAS and our sister company Horsemat, import Natural rubber materials from India.
Their premium growing and processing region is in the South, with the state of Kerala being the most prominent.
This is a letter from one of our friends and business colleagues, which we believe outlines the plight of this region – as with all natural disasters, these people have not asked for this – it is not some form of retribution – but it gives us the opportunity to do what we can to help.
“Our state Kerala is going through a crisis due to the deadly monsoon. Hope you might have heard of the calamities we face at present which has destroyed and devastated the entire state. We had unexpected territorial rain for the last few weeks. We have around 33 small and big dams, we mostly depend on hydro-electric projects for power supply. All the dams were full and authorities were forced to open all of them at a stretch. This has resulted in the diversion and overflow of rivers, all the low lying areas are flooded. The authorities had said that we have left 357 people dead since May 29th, over 3.53 lakh people are in relief camps across the rain savaged state.
Our Cochin airport is closed. Rail & road traffic is totally affected and there is a power failure in most of the areas. Our business is totally collapsed. No production and no movement of goods. Today is a sunny day and hope we can return to normalcy in one or two weeks. As a company, we haven’t faced any major loss to stock or machinery. The only problem is that we cannot keep our commitments of shipment dates to our valued customers. Anyway, we are informing the delays to all our customers.
But there is a sad and tragic side of the situation. Many areas near our factory are fully flooded, the water level has even crossed the second level of the buildings. Many of our workers are totally affected by the flood. They lost their house, belongings, vehicles & even important documents. Fortunately, there is no loss of life. All are struggling to return to normal life. The Government and different agencies are supporting them, but as you know with this common fund they cannot recoup or reconstruct their lives which they built up with their small savings for the last many years. The situation is so pathetic and it is beyond words.
In our companies capacity, we have decided to contribute an amount to the Government relief fund and besides it is our duty to extend our hands to our suffering colleagues. For the first time in our history, we decided to seek the help of our buyers worldwide to raise a fund for the relief operations ” For it is in giving that we receive”. ” We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”. No one has never become poor by giving, we urge you to donate an amount for the charity and relief work which we have already initiated to help those who are affected by the floods. We will extend our hands first to our colleagues and then to the most needy in our location.
With my personal help or with the contribution of the company we cannot do anything but our united effort will definitely help those who are in distress and agony. Whatever amount, big or small please transfer to our account at the earliest. The bank details are attached for your perusal. We will definitely come back to you with a report of what we have done with this amount.
Looking forward to your helping hand .”
Needless to say, contributions from our two companies are on their way with all our heartfelt wishes.
Food Quality Mouldings
Phthalate Free
Our Food Quality materials include silicones in any colour – all confirming to FDA21CFR, EC1935/2004, EU10/2011, EC2023/2006 specifications – and all Phthalate Free!
Liquid Injection
Using liquid injection moulding equipment, these food quality rubber mouldings are self-trimmed on the press. They can be manufactured, inspected and bagged without being touched by human-hand!
Typically parts will have a 100% visual inspection, however, and this will often require them to be handled. As in the parts pictured here, being silicone and static – attracting all sorts of dust in the air, the parts are quickly cleaned with boiling water and sterilising agents prior to being fitted to equipment.
Low-Cost Tooling
Injection tooling for these products is supplied at prices well below the £1000.00 ceiling required by our customers (100-150gram parts). And good news for our customers, we are consistently 60% below normal costs when compared to other suppliers.
Coupled with low-cost tooling – we also ensure our piece prices are highly competitive. As a supplier to OEMs, and resellers, we always aim to meet your particular requirements and come in well below target!
ISO9001 Update
14.3.18
ISO9001:2015 
Our QA System at EAS has now been updated, assessed and approved to the latest ISO9001:2015 system.
We are approved for;
THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURE AND SUPPLY OF GASKETS, MOULDINGS, SEALS, EXTRUSIONS, SHEET, MATTING AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS IN ALL TYPES OF RIGID, SEMI-RIGID AND FLEXIBLE MATERIALS.
The design and development aspect of our certification is critical in many of the industries we now work in, where practical experience across a wide range of technical issues is necessary. It has become central to our policy of increased service to all our customers – at all levels.
A copy of our current certificate can be found by clicking ISO9001-2015 Cert Copy.
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
EAS is compliant to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR – comes in force 28.5.18) – we take your privacy seriously and only retain personal information we need to administer your account and provide products and services you have requested from us. We do not share this information externally and we can also confirm what information we have and how it is used.
However, occasionally we would like to contact you with notifications regarding products and services we provide that may be of interest to you.
If this is a problem or you need further information please contact us at info@easeals.co.uk.
Further information can be found at https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr
2018
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS
2018 looks like it will continue as did 2017, to increase our output significantly with new customers both here in the UK and overseas. We have some very interesting projects that are beginning this year and we’ll keep those of you updated who follow FB, Twitter and various blogs as these progress. Our plans for 2018 include further expansion here and more new machinery – along with additional staff. We’re also looking to move into new markets while continuing to build on existing product lines and service areas – all good news for our customers and suppliers with whom we look forward to continued support – and we thank all of you for helping us to achieve our targets year on year !
Re-introducing our CorrSeal Gasket !
Our CORRSEAL gasket, based on a corrugated metal core with either Graphite or PTFE facings has been used by several companies since its introduction in November 2002 but has never had the full ‘in your face’ promotions or advertising that it’s competition – Spiral Wound Gaskets and Kamprofiles have had over the years.
Apart from being more versatile, withstanding greater pressures and bolt loadings – and being re-usable, these gaskets have an elite following of engineers who understand their capabilities – and how they can make life a whole lot easier!
Call us for further details – we’ll email the original data booklet which includes the Global approvals held and outlines clearly the potential of this ‘Super Gasket’!
More About Us
We don’t profess to be the Biggest, or the Best, or the Leaders, or the Only, or the Cheapest in our industry, but we do aim to provide the most straight-forward, honest, and reputable service for all our products, at competitive rates, to our ever-growing list of customers here in the UK, and World-Wide!
As we grow, we are becoming increasingly involved in some very major contracts – and these World-Class companies expect a level of service – from our initial response to enquiries, through manufacturing, supply and to our after-service and follow-up – to be of the highest level appropriate to our company and the product being supplied.
With this ‘wider calling’ – we are also being requested to supply new products, new materials, and new technologies and production methods – expanding our knowledge and expertise into areas previously unprecedented.
Much of this goes unseen by our regular customers, and we certainly don’t market ourselves by demonstrating some of the projects that we work within as that could be counter-productive – especially as non-disclosure contracts are often part of the agreements with these companies.
However, we’re more than willing to work ‘outside the box’ – and look at products that may not naturally fall within the categories of ‘gaskets’ or ‘seals’ – so, don’t be afraid to ask – you may be surprised at our capabilities, and what we’ve previously been involved with!
New CAD Creation & Digital Non-contact Measurement
We are currently developing a new low-cost system with an associate company, capable of accurately measuring 2D samples while also converting that information into drawing files (DXF, DWG etc). This is particularly useful for us in the gasket industry, where digitisation of parts requires hardware and software – or laboriously drawing the products in CAD programs.
With complicated gaskets, manual drawing can take up to 2 hours quite easily, while with this new system it’s done with the simple click of a button – making the job a lot easier! Files created by the system can then be used to manufacture tooling, or to run CAD based machinery such as knife-cutters, lasers or water-jet equipment.
At EAS we regularly draw on average 10 new parts each day, and estimate that we spend on least 3 hours a day on this process – with the new system, 10 parts can be non-contact measured and digitised into CAD drawings easily within 15 minutes.
If you would like a video demonstration of the system, measuring and converting your own sample into a CAD file, we hope to be able to offer this in the next few weeks – if happy, the system can be supplied with all hardware and software at a fraction of other systems. (comparative 2D non-contact scanning systems are anywhere from £15,000.00 upwards!). Full back-up for the system will also be provided by the software company – again at a very reasonable, low annual subscription.
Please call us on 01787 880433 or email at info@easeals.co.uk for further information, details on costs etc.
History
Turning Back Time
While old company history isn’t often relevant in today’s business, it is often surprising how many of the old-established companies are still going strong – and undoubtedly will battle through the Brexit changes during 2017!
During our New Year office tidy up, we came across this old ledger listing all the companies with their respective turnovers from 1973 when J. Law & Co Ltd of Barking, Essex and Polyco Products Ltd of Tottenham merged to become Law Polyco Ltd and moved out of London to Sudbury as part of the Greater London Overspill program.
With a 99 year ‘peppercorn’ rent from the local council of just £1.00 per year, this gave Law Polyco a great boost and ensured the company’s success over the next 15 years until it was sold and became part of a larger group of companies run by an accountant – who had no business sense and over the next 4 years stripped all the cash from the businesses until in 1992 all 23 companies in the group went into liquidation.
Fortunately, the business didn’t die – along with the former owner Peter Grieves, Steve Cant and Mark Stuart retained the major customers and continued on to form a new company, which Steve directed until 2002 when East Anglian Sealing Co Ltd was established.
Commercial and Technical Mouldings
From standard O ring seals and grommets to Rubber Bonded Metal Components – 0.5gr to 50kg shot load, 1mm dia to 32mts dia (and bigger) we are able to supply all types of rubbers – and plastics, using low-cost tooling – in any quantity.
We regularly supply both OEM and Trade re-sellers across the UK and Europe with an eclectic range of product using compression and injection moulding processes, along with stage moulding, extruded shot moulding and dual-hardness moulding in all polymers, including engineering plastics such as PTFE and PEEK.
