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TransXL International Ltd
Located in Swindon, England, only one hour west of London's Heathrow Airport. TransXL is a stockist with over 3,500sq m of warehouses & workshops full of used Plastics Processing equipment - The worlds only plastic sheet line supermarket. Website

Company History
TransXL was established by Jack Napper in 1974 in an old brick factory storage shed with his last £5,000 and six children to feed! His son Jon Napper joined him fresh from university in 1977 and slowly this family business made its way from a very low cost location.

A landmark change occurred in 1984 when the company purchased and moved to a 14,000 sq ft factory on its existing site just outside the “boom” town of Swindon. This site was originally part of the Vickers aircraft factory and the famous fighter aircraft, the Spitfire MK24, was assembled in the adjacent building during the 1950’s. According to some staff the ghost of a pilot can still be seen late at night when all is quiet!

Over the next 7 years the company continued to build its reputation as a significant supplier of quality used plastics processing equipment, specialising increasingly on extrusion and downstream processes.

On Jack Napper’s retirement in 1992, Jon Napper took over the majority ownership and embarked on an expansion drive. The first hand experience of the hard earned but well developed principles of his father’s era was a guiding hand.

The original 14,000 sq ft factory was extended, new warehouse built, paint spray & process rooms added. A further 10,000 sq ft was rented as demand still outstripped supply capability. In 2000 the company purchased its neighbour’s building and brought the whole site under its ownership and control. By coincidence the latest acquision was the place that the Vickers “Transfermix” extruder was built in the 1970’s.