In 2004, Nick’s biggest challenge was finding an injection moulding company with the capabilities and experience of producing a dental type of product. Nick needed an Injection Moulding Partner to assist him with the ‘Design for Manufacture’ element, who was suited to his industry, his product, and his product requirements. With the product being like a mouth guard, Nick’s research led him to Paul Norman Plastics Limited, as we manufacture Game Guard gumshields.
The Oralift device was developed by our client, Nick Mohindra a dentist who had pioneered an antiaging treatment achieved by wearing a device fitted over the lower teeth for short periods.
Prior to working with PNP, Nick was using a dental appliance made in a laboratory, which Dentists had great difficulty fitting.
In 2004, Nick’s biggest challenge was finding an injection moulding company with the capabilities and experience of producing a dental type of product. Nick needed an Injection Moulding Partner to assist him with the ‘Design for Manufacture’ element, who was suited to his industry, his product, and his product requirements. With the product being like a mouth guard, Nick’s research led him to Paul Norman Plastics Limited, as we manufacture Game Guard gumshields.
After the initial consultation meeting, Nick instinctively knew that PNP were the right partner to work with, he immediately struck up a rapport with the team and found us to be “highly skilled and extremely helpful”.
PNP were heavily involved in the early stages of the product development cycle and provided Nick with design and material advice. Nick said, “I felt very daunted by the prospect of designing something from scratch and initially felt quite nervous as I had never worked with a manufacturer before.”
Nick went on to say –
“With PNP, I felt supported and reassured all the way through the process. Working with Paul Norman Plastics, revolutionised the way we work. The fitting no longer required several appointments, it could be accomplished in just one! This saved a huge amount of time and money.”
The design advice from PNP has helped Nick to develop a product which is much easier to fit, as such Nick and his team can now market the product directly to the end customer. And an app has been developed to replace the need for Dentist’s support.
After producing Oralift for several years, a surge in demand from Korea meant that Nick needed to vastly increase production from a few hundred to 10,000 units within a few weeks. An increase in production made it necessary for PNP to design and produce a new multi cavity tool and change the base material.
Nick says
“When demand increased, PNP rose to the challenge, they supplied and delivered within our required time frames. All staff are excellent, everyone is really helpful, PNP even do the direct despatch to the end customer.”
We asked Nick for a full testimonial and he said the following about our services:
“Paul Norman Plastics are really supportive, and really want our business to succeed – this makes them stand out from other potential partners that we spoke with. You get nice people and then you get sharks who just want to make money out of you. They are like a family, they genuinely want to support us and help us succeed. I would not hesitate in recommending their services.”