Our client
The Safe Water Trust is the not-for-profit manufacturing arm of registered charity Grifaid, which works to provide access to safe drinking water in developing countries and disaster zones through the development, manufacture and supply of water filters used by families and their wider communities.
Grifaid coordinates with small charities and larger NGOs to deploy filters manufactured by the Safe Water Trust wherever they are needed. Established by local North East entrepreneur and designer John Griffith over a decade ago, the Safe Water Trust operates from facilities in Tyne and Wear. OF Bell supports the organisation’s manufacturing with simple-to-use moulded plastic components that achieve reliable performance in the field, delivering safe water for communities in over 50 countries globally.
“OF Bell have supplied us with plastic moulded parts for so many years that we consider them to be long term partners. Always found their team to be quick to respond to our need for tooling changes and the quality of parts continues to meet our high standards.”
John Griffith
Safe Water Trust / Grifaid
Moulded plastics for water filters
OF Bell is a long-term manufacturing partner for the Safe Water Trust, delivering a reliable, consistent supply of quality-assured, UK-made moulded plastic components to this important regional charitable organisation.
The water filter component was developed alongside the Safe Water Trust team through our collaborative Product Design and Development phase, creating a hard-wearing, maintenance-free design which would continue to perform well in the field during regular, repetitive use and which can be manufactured cost-effectively to scale using our in-house injection moulding equipment.
Reliable moulded plastics for safe wate
Our water filter moulded plastic component forms an essential part of the Safe Water Trust’s family and community water filter products. Placed in a bucket of water, the Grifaid Family Filter is pumped by hand to produce water that’s free from particulates and safe for drinking. The filter features gauze and membrane, cross flow cleaning, and built-in back flushing and purging housed within a tough plastic casing that’s designed to last.
OF Bell’s moulded plastics and injection moulding engineers developed a detachable component which is a perfect fit for the Family Filter. The component features a gauze filter, which is fed from a roll into the tool and overmoulded, together with two living hinges used to attach the filter component to the base of the Family Filter.
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