Jeremy Binnington, Director of Chambrelan UK, is quoted as saying: "We're in a unique position to control our costs from our manufacturing site in France, but there many companies who have to pass the increase of costs from their suppliers onto their customers."
It's a point that we've picked up in the past, in so much as companies who are having to make cost making decisions generally look for cheaper options. Unfortunately buying cheap, as we've seen, can often mean buying twice and therefore the immediate knee jerk reaction to make cost savings can have a knock on effect.
To give an example, one vehicle builder recently wrote to us with his experience of changing from steel slides to aluminium slides. The load capacity of the slides had been understated and oversold and within three weeks of them being fitted the vehicle was taken off road due to severe brinnelling and new steel slides needed to be ordered and replaced.
Cheaper? More cost effective? We don't think so.
