Mack Expands Injection Molding Capacity, Staff

Custom plastic injection molder and contract manufacturing services provider Mack Molding expanded the press fleet at its Cavendish, Vermont, facility. The company added a 240-ton Milacron Electric Roboshot E240 press with a shot size of 10.6 ounces, and a 125-ton Milacron Q110 Hybrid press with a shot size 9.6 ounces to its facility, investing approximately $325,000 in the presses, robotics and infrastructure upgrades. This move brings the total number of injection molding machines at Cavendish to 20.

Companywide, Mack has 125 plastic injection molding machines ranging in clamp force from 28 to 4,000 tons, with barrel sizes ranging from .6 oz. to 800 oz. That includes 21 presses that are 1,400 tons or larger. The company has 12 facilities operating globally.

New Hires

The company also made some personnel announcements, appointing Kyle Teeter as the plant manager of Mack’s Statesville, North Carolina, facility. Prior to Mack, Teeter, who has 15 years of experience, served as plant manager for Parker Hannifin’s Precision Fluidics Division in Mooresville, North Carolina. In that role, he was responsible for all site-wide functional activities, including production, quality assurance, engineering, supply chains, EHS and HR.

Mack’s Southern Division also announced new appointments to its Sales and Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering teams at the the company’s plant in Inman, South Carolina.

Devon Knight was hired to the South Sales and Engineering team as a program manager. Knight has 10 years of experience in project management. She most recently worked as a packaging support engineer for Spartech LLC, in Greenville, South Carolina.

Jonathan Shafer has been appointed as a Southern Division program manager, bringing 20 years of transportation and heavy equipment experience. Prior to Mack, he served as global factory project manager and supplier performance engineer with Caterpillar in Greer, South Carolina.

Inman’s Manufacturing Engineering team hired Cate Lewis as a manufacturing engineer. A recent graduate of Clemson University, Lewis earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. Prior to Mack, Lewis worked as an intern with Crane Instrumentation and Sampling in Spartanburg, South Carolina.