R&D/Leverage Joins Growing Tooling Family
R&D/Leverage becomes the third tooling acquisition of Omaha startup Adler Industrial Solutions.
Liberty IBM System is a patented injection-blow tooling design from R&D/Leverage. (Photo: R&D/Leverage)
In September, Adler Industrial Solutions, Inc. acquired R&D/Leverage Co., a builder of molds for all types of blow molding, PET preforms and other injection molded parts. Based in Lee’s Summit, Mo., R&D/Leverage was founded in 1975. Today it has over 250 employees in plants in Lee’s Summit and England that serve food, beverage, personal-care and healthcare markets.
Adler Industrial Solutions (adlertooling.com) was founded in Omaha, Neb., in 2021, when it embarked on creating a “network” of geographically distributed tooling and die companies. Its first acquisition, in October 2021, was Shorts Tool & Mfg. (renamed Pinnacle Molds, an Adler Company), a builder of close-tolerance and multicavity injection molds in Saegertown, Pa. Next, Adler purchased another injection moldmaker with a similar focus, Rapid Mold Solutions in Erie, Pa. Adler says the acquired companies will benefit from additional corporate and software resources and investment.
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