In an industry and a region where for too long headlines called out closures and consolidation, last month’s opening of a brand new Inergy Automotive Systems fuel-tank manufacturing facility in Huron Township, Mich. was welcome news, and perhaps a harbinger of something bigger.
Consolidation in the injection molding machine market has seemingly diminished the press options available to North American molders, but for every supplier that goes away or joins up with a former competitor, a new supplier from the world’s most active machinery market, China, fills the void.
Depending on who you ask and how you define the product, there are by some counts only two manufacturers of long-term implantable silicones for the medical device industry.
The world’s preeminent consumer goods company as a parent and a portfolio of 11 patent applications: from this enviable starting position, Procter & Gamble company iMFLUX is generating buzz in the plastics packaging space before it has even selected a location for its proposed injection molding plant.