News from Versatote and The CSS Group
Read news from Versatote and our parent CSS Group here.
Versatote Plastic Totes and Automated Warehouse Systems
It is great to see some of our plastic totes out in the supply chain, doing exaclty what they are designed to do. Some of the totes in this video are well over 10 years old and are still performing as intended within the pharmaceuticals supply network. For more...
Ted Head, Receiving the Environmental Business Award Winner
Ted Head (CSS Group Chairman) looking resplendent in his outfit accepting the Environmental Business Award at Torbay Business Awards 2023. Casting Support Systems was delighted to receive the Environmental Business Award in the prestigeous Torbay Business Awards 2023....
CSS – Environmental Business Award Winner
Casting Support Systems was delighted to receive the Environmental Business Award in the prestigeous Torbay Business Awards 2023. This was for our work in reducing energy usage, continual increase in the usage of reprocessed polymers and the introduction of the UBQ...
Silver EcoVadis Medal 2022 Award
We are pleased to announce that Casting Support Systems Ltd has been awarded the Silver EcoVadis Medal 2022. The score we achieved places our company among the top 25 percent of companies assessed by EcoVadis. The EcoVadis award covers four key areas for performance:...
Time-lapse of New Group Building Construction
Here's a time-lapse video showing the construction stages of our new £10M, purpose-built manufacturing facility, situated at Claylands Cross in Paignton. The new 6,000 square metre building will accommodate the 4 companies of the CSS Group, Casting Support Systems,...
CSS Group takes on a new apprentice – Ryan Easterbrook
The CSS Group are pleased to announce that we have a new Apprentice Toolmaker who started in September 2021. Ryan Easterbrook will start his Level 3 Engineering course at South Devon College while following our in-house Apprentice training scheme. As the business...
New Product Data Management (PDM) System
We’ve always got an eye on improving our performance and effectiveness to maintain the service our customers expect. Our design department has recently upgraded their CAD system with a new Product Data Management (PDM) tool, from Solid Solutions.Tightly integrated...
New Look Transport
Many thanks to Evans Transport Ltd for transporting our storage products to keep our logistics and pharmaceuticals customers supplied throughout 2020 and a challenging of 2021 ahead. Barnaby Jones (one of our Design Engineers) took this picture on the first outing of...
New CSS Group Building Progress
Construction Work is progressing well on our new purpose-built facility at Claylands Business Park, Paignton (you can see it just off the crossroads near ASDA) Yesterday the two 10T overhead gantry cranes arrived on site ready to be installed. Once completed it will...
Closed Loop Recycling
All of our waste manufacturing plastic (polypropylene co polymer) is now being sent to MBA polymers in Dover who are reprocessing it and supplying it back to us so we can manufacture new Tote bins. To save space on the truck and minimise fuel miles, we shrink the...
Continual Investment
CSS has invested in a brand new EN450 from Romi moulding machinery as part of it's continual investment program. The machine replaces an older 440t machine but has increased distance between the tie bars and greater shot weight of 1.9kg giving us more versatility. The...
Going Big!
In mid-2018 Casting Support Systems installed a 1000T Negri Bossi Bi Power moulding machine to enable the range of Versatote boxes to grow not just in number but in size as well. The new machine is equipped with a Sytrama robot cell and has a shot weight of 5.5kg...
New 600T Moulding Machine
In mid-2018 Casting Support Systems installed a 1000T Negri Bossi Bi Power moulding machine to enable the range of Versatote boxes to grow not just in number but in size as well. The new machine is equipped with a Sytrama robot cell and has a shot weight of 5.5kg...
New Hurco Vertical Milling Machine Deal Secured
Investment Casting Systems Tooling Ltd are devoted to producing plastic injection moulds, wax pattern dies and tooling for carbon fibre parts production, mainly for the aerospace industry, which accounts for 85 per cent of turnover. MACH 2016 saw the company invest in...
CSS Take Occupancy of Additional Premises
Due to continued success, CSS Group have taken possession of additional premises in Paignton, situated near to their existing manufacturing facility. CSS Group consists of Casting Support Systems Ltd (CSS) and Investment Casting Systems (ICS). The existing premises...
CSS Launches 28 Litre Attached Lid Container
Casting Support Systems have launched another attached lid container to the expanding Versatote™ range. All aspects from design of the container, design of the mould and manufacturing of both were carried out in-house. The external dimensions are 400 × 300 × 300mm...
ICS World Class Toolmaker Status
Investment Casting Systems Ltd, the sister company of Casting Support Systems Ltd was recently re-classified as ‘World Class Toolmaker’ by the GTMA. “Due to the team effort within our companies to achieve this higher status, we have proven that we are a very capable...
Robotic efficiency
January 2019 saw the installation of our latest robot for the manufacture of tote bins. The Sytrama S10 is the latest generation with fantastic payload, acceleration and deceleration properties and it now means that all of our tote box manufacturing machines are...