Marchwood company building dinghies out of waste material
8:50am Wednesday 28th July 2010
BUSINESS is buoyant for a boat builder from Hampshire after it floated the idea of building dinghies out of its waste.
Bosses at Marchwood based Composite Mouldings Limited (CML), which specialises in building advanced hulls for companies like Pearl Motor Yachts and for the Ministry of Defence, got fed-up with a tottering pile of waste and off-cuts in the workshop.
After consulting their 25 staff for ideas on what to build, they decided to turn it into a new range of dinghy hulls, which they’ve been selling off at boat jumbles for £100 a time. Tommi Buckley, pictured, project manager for CML, said: “We build boats up to 60ft long and there’s a lot of waste – about 15 per cent. So we had a pile of off-cuts and it was overflowing.
“Traditionally we have put it in a bin and we have had to pay someone to take it away and we’re reluctant to do that. So, the solution was to make something out of it.
“Because they are quite small that 15 per cent waste from a 60 foot boat will make several dinghies. We have made 12 dinghies so far and it’s working well.
“We get the apprentice to make them and we sell them for £100. People can then fit them out with rowlocks and a seat for another £50.
“Previously we would have just written the material costs off.”
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Marchwood company building dinghies out of waste material (From This is Hampshire)
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