Supply & Installation of Toothbrush Making Machine

To supply and install a turnkey solution to manufacture toothbrushes at HMP Ranby.

Additional information:

Please note that this equipment will be placed within a prison working environment. Consideration should be given to design/ build equipment that will only allow components to manufacture the toothbrushes to be loaded into the machines correctly, offering shut down where this is not followed. It is recommended that arrangements to conduct a site visit to the relevant establishment is carried out prior to any bid being submitted.

This is only a guide and may be subject to change, which will be addressed in the procurement documents published:

Toothbrush Injection mould tool to be able to produce a minimum 1 million toothbrushes per year on a standard 32hr week.

Tool specification.

Fully hardened tool H13: Separate insert for Toothbrush Head H13: Central ejection: Air Ejection

Locking location cone: Minimum Mould height 255mm: Excellent Water cooling required 1/4" BSP water fittings required to tool

Cycle time to be below 40secs: Hasco Hot runner tip: Recycling PP logo: Moulding to fit into the Bristling/Tufting/Trimming and Packing: Component and tool drawing to be supplied.

Tooling must be ready with samples products available for trails for 15th September 2108 on Tufting, trimming and packing machine. Tooling signed off and delivered into HMP Ranby before 15th Dec 2018. Bristling / Tufting machine must comply with EU Safety Regulations and CE markings.

Toothbrush tufting machine Minimum Requirement:

• 1000 tufts per minute: - stack hopper for the brush handles ( manual loading): - triple fibrebox ( manual loading)
• ready for one toothbrush model: safety switches on guards ( incl safety PLC) for CE-safety compliancy Trimming and finishing machine for toothbrushes: - includes 2 flat trimming units ( place for up to 4): - includes 2 end-rounding units ( place for up to 6): exhaust unit for ( trimmed-off fibre and end-rounding dust): central trim length adjustment preparation for hotfoil press: hotstamping press including 1 hotstamping die code marke( ( for shift code marking): 2 additional end-rounding units brush cleaning unit ( to remove dust from the end-rounded product): safety switches on guards ( incl safety PLC) for CE-safety compliancy ready for one toothbrush model

Packing individual Toothbrushes

• all tooling for one polybag sealing/ blister pack type included: - output approx 20 blister packages/minute

vacuum pump if required for less compressed air consumption: chilling unit if required for cooling water temperature regulator unit if required: Noise level to be below 60 dB(A)

Testing and Inspection Equipment - Provide Testing and inspection equipment for relevant Toothbrush Standards.

Installation and training cost to be included within the overall quote.