It is turkey season, not elephant season. We have been very grateful regarding the number of inquiries and new customers this first quarter. We are in the start-up process with several of them and most customers have a similar initiation of business protocol. The only time that process sometimes changes drastically is if we are […]

Building on last week’s blog, PlastiCert has chosen to make the most of the team we have and creating an environment where they enjoy our team environment and reward them for stellar performance. Then building on that framework to attract new people that have a desire for a better work life that equates to more […]

A time-tested axiom, it has both positive and negative connotations. If you spend the most you expect the most, and contrarily, sometimes if you try to be thrifty you end up with less than stellar results. It is a spectrum though, and sometimes spending high does not get you what you wanted, and there are […]

The Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization number were released today. They were coined as “disappointing”  because the increase was only 1.4% vs an expected 2.7%. Capacity Utilization followed that disappointing moniker with 74.4 reported vs an expected 75.7. https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/default.htm Both those reported numbers were pretty much the same as the prior month’s numbers. We here […]

Spring has sprung, the blossoms have returned, the sports cars are out of storage, the Winter Championships are done (that one is a personal one, as is the sports car one), say what you will, things have changed! In performing our risk assessments years ago, one scenario was that we would see more mold inquiries […]

The NCAA Basketball tournaments are underway and to date there have been numerous upsets, some ruining millions of people’s brackets! As of this writing, of 56 games, on the men’s side, 25% saw a double-digit seed beat a single digit seed, and over 30% of the games had a lesser seed beat the better seed. […]

For 20 years, when PlastiCert expanded up into the 500-ton press range, we have looked to provide our customers a means to get their components whether they need 50 or 250,000. Truth be told we prefer the 50-piece end of the spectrum. We have been quoted as saying we hate high volume here at PlastiCert. […]

PlastiCert turns 40 years young this week. After our intent to file was published on February 5&6, our original Articles of Incorporation were recognized by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 12, 1981. In reflecting on the evolution of PlastiCert, the company’s growth has almost a somewhat human element to it. We […]

This week I (and PlastiCert) celebrated an engineer that does not even work here, at least now. One of our former engineering interns from Winona State University that went on to graduate and go into the workforce. Huy posted on LinkedIn that he had achieved his ASQ certification as a Quality Engineer. Well done young […]

A good friend recently tagged me in FB with a link to a NYT Opinion Section video from 2017. The NYT filmed 67 people in Sweden that were paid for a task. The task was to go to the top of a ten meter (33 feet) high platform over a pool and walk to the […]