15 July 2026 // A Decade of Maintenance Partnership, Major Machinery Auction, and Packaging Pact Leaders
In today’s brief:
🔧 Maintenance Milestone: OMS LubriTek and Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation celebrate ten years of successful collaboration at the Horncastle site. The transition to a proactive lubrication strategy has delivered massive gains in machinery reliability, slashing downtime and maintenance costs across their high-volume injection moulding and extrusion fleets.
🔨 Asset Management: Apex Auctions has opened bidding on 348 lots of manufacturing equipment previously used by automotive component supplier WCM Europe. The timed online auction represents a major opportunity for processors to acquire late-model Negri Bossi injection moulding machines, Hurco CNC toolroom equipment, and high-spec inspection systems before bidding closes on 30th July.
♻️ Circular Economy: The UK Packaging Pact has announced five new industry leaders from Tesco, M&S, Robinson, Suez, and the British Plastics Federation to chair its Industry Expert Groups. The initiative will drive cross-sector collaboration to scale up reuse systems and harmonise data across the UK packaging value chain.
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