Barum & Dewar Ltd (B&D) is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of specialist packaging solutions and the provider of choice to many Prime contractors operating in support of the UK Ministry of Defence.

Recently B&D were approached by a major IT supplier to UK MoD who had an urgent need for ruggedised packaging in order that their leading edge equipment could be deployed in time for a major exercise. As is often the case not all details of the contents were initially available and so B&D’s in-house design team worked with the information to hand and developed a prototype ruggedised case solution based on a Peli Storm case from B&D’s range of waterproof cases internally fitted with custom CNC routed foam. On site approval was swift and production commenced immediately utilising B&D’s dedicated foam facility near Southampton to provide the internal foam cushioning and all necessary labelling.

IT Client Project Manager, Andy commented: “My Company had a requirement to meet an urgent request for ruggedised and deployable cases and packaging for Military IT kit suitable for operation in all Land and Maritime environments.Barum & Dewar were suggested to me by a packaging expert, having been proven on previous projects as a competitive and trusted supplier to my team.Barum & Dewar were able to not only compete on cost terms with their rival suppliers, but almost half the delivery lead time to meet my required dates for the client. As a result we were able to not only satisfy, but shortcut our customer’s ambitious delivery dates by several days.As a result a high profile order was fulfilled to specification ahead of target and UK Defence were ready to deploy the new solution on a major exercise within weeks of receipt of the product.I particularly liked the in-house design service that Barum & Dewar offer – we were able to work with their Technical Design Team using 3D CAD to achieve a prototype solution prior to going into full production.Thanks go to David Frame and the team at B&D for the agile work they did in support of this highly successful project. ”

For B&D this was a project with time pressures from the outset but one which B&D are geared up to deal with. Everything was managed in-house from design to foam fabrication and this ability to control all aspects of the process meant that lead time was not just met be improved upon.

Barum & Dewar MD, David Frame added: “Client recognition of this type is always welcome and bears testimony to both the team we have at B&D and the importance we place on our core values. These two elements combine to ensure that the offering from B&D continues to exceed expectations and reinforces our commitment to developing long term trusted relationships with clients”