6 good reasons to talk to Harboro Rubber

If you purchase rubber mouldings for your business, now more than ever you need to be sure that your supplier is established, competent and secure, and able to work with you to add value to your products and services.

Harboro Rubber occupies a unique place in the market. We’ve been engineering
in rubber for more than a century, and today supply our products to some of the biggest, most demanding global customers, as well as many smaller businesses who rely on our expertise. We’ve included some of their comments below.

Here are 6 good reasons why our customers benefit from trading with us, and why we hope you will be interested to talk to us.

1. Straight Talking

  • If there’s a more cost-effective solution, we will tell you
  • If your design can be improved, we will tell you how
  • If your material is not the best choice, we will tell you what to use and why
  • If it’s a product best supplied by a competitor, we will tell you
  • If lead-times look unrealistic, we will develop a timing plan that will work for all

2. Innovative

  • We love to work with customers to solve their problems using our extensive knowledge
  • We have the perspective of lots of industries to bring to yours (Automotive, Aerospace, Electrical, Electronic, General Engineering, Instruments & Optical, Oil & Gas, Marine, Trains & Transport)
  • We have 10 qualified engineers and rubber technologists to solve problems and develop solutions
  • We can develop purpose specific materials

3. Experienced

  • Because we manufacture, we know everything that can be done in rubber and provide a complete service from design support to production
  • We have a full range of manufacturing equipment suited for high volume automotive quantities through to small quantities of technical parts
  • We have a highly equipped laboratory and can analyse rubber to check that nothing has been changed and that it meets the specification
  • We have been in the rubber business from the beginning (since 1894)

4. Capable

  • 98.7% of our customers had zero quality issues with all parts we supplied last year
  • Of the thousand different parts we supplied last year, no parts had a repeat problem
  • We look after stock and logistics for our customers from kanban, EDI systems through window deliveries to regular schedules and one off orders
  • We have an excellent team of qualified, audited sub suppliers and long standing partnerships with specialised tool makers

5. Trusted

“Our expectations of Quality and Delivery have been exceeded. Everyone you meet is on the customers’ side and eager to help. For these reasons, Softshock highly values its working relationship with Harboro Rubber.”

Softshock (Rail Transport)

“Thank you for your faultless quality and delivery performance.”

Honda (Automotive)

“I am a relatively small business but I have had tremendous support from Harboro. I have used them for 9 years and would not dream of going anywhere else.”

CARPARTS & ACCESSORIES (Accessories)

“We appreciate the support Harboro has continued to provide throughout this project. It continues to be a most refreshing experience working with an organisation with such a “can do” attitude whilst maintaining the highest internal standards.”

SEVEN OCEANS (Marine)

“If all our suppliers were the same as Harboro Rubber, our purchasing manager would be out of job. The people are friendly and efficient, the product is outstanding and the service is exemplary – all rare qualities these days and so no wonder they are highly successful.”

RYCOTE MICROPHONE WINDSHIELDS (Electrical & Electronic)

“We are completely satisfied with Harboro’s ability to support our very demanding schedules. It is a pleasure when you speak to members of staff at Harboro who are always willing to assist which is what’s needed to help the growth of the automotive industry.”

LANDROVER (Automotive)

6. Competitive

  • We have a first class UK manufacturing plant with some of the lowest costs in Europe
  • We also have qualified suppliers in Malaysia, Taiwan, China and Italy whom we have used for 15 years and meet TS16949 & ISO9001 standards
  • We know the costs and technical capabilities of low-cost suppliers and analyse every part in open discussion with our customers for their best advantage
  • We work to control and reduce the Total Acquisition Cost

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