Every product has to start with an idea, and at Heyside we believe the best ideas deserve to become real-world products. Our New Product Development (NPD) process starts with a conversation with our customers, to understand their needs and provide the technical insight to make a product function properly.

Using advanced CAD software and vast experience from working with sectors ranging from traffic management to the water industry, we give our customers a direct route from concept to manufacture. We review products with our clients all the way through development, with 3D modelling helping to bring designs to life visually.

Once the mould has been created, the final step is manufacturing the product. This is where we select with the customer the material to manufacture the product – often from our high-quality blend of recycled waste plastic. All the material Heyside use is also 100% recyclable at end of life – and feeding it into one of our industrial injection moulding machines.

The process involves molten material being injected under high pressure into the custom-made mould, ensuring consistency and structural integrity for each product. After checking in again with our customers and reviewing the final product, we can scale up manufacturing, using our mass production capabilities across our 40,000 sqft UK factory.

If a customer decides further down the line they want to update the product, we take a step back to the design and prototyping stage and amend the product appropriately, before redesigning the tooling and starting production again.