You are designing your component. Included is defining what will be required of it and what material will best meet the need. PlastiCert has about 200 different thermoplastic resins entered into our system, meaning we have molded parts with all of them over the years. Many are specific to certain product types and industries. For […]
Low Volume? Medium Volume?
We receive numerous inquiries regarding our short run low volume capabilities. PlastiCert bills itself as being THE supplier for OEMs requiring injection molding but short run and low to middle volumes. What do we mean by short run, or low to medium volume? Or more important, what constitutes and short run or volume level? The […]
OMG – You can’t be serious
(Sorry, my watching Wimbledon resulted in a McEnroe quote but the shoe fit) Onshoring, reshoring, or nearshoring, is gaining momentum. Duh, but some of the comments being made. How can the average CEO pay be 670-1* when they are SO inept at running their companies? For 30 years companies have been taking all manners of […]
Everyone loves a parade!
Another Lewiston Heartland Days has passed and PlastiCert did it up bigger than usual. This year we celebrated our doing business in Lewiston for 20 years. PlastiCert was founded way back in 1981, but that was in Pennsylvania. Our reach back then was regional, mostly upper East Coast but did stretch down into the Carolinas […]
Open the Doors
The one thing manufacturing needs to do is raise their profile. Inviting the public into our facilities is the best thing we can do to enlighten and educate the non-manufacturing public about the opportunities we offer for supporting their desired way of life. PlastiCert held an open house to celebrate our completing a building addition […]
End of The School Year
The last day of school is always a day worth noting. Here at PlastiCert, we have several of them. One being the last day of college, which means we will be seeing some of our engineering student workers come in everyday all day, which is an exceptionally good thing. Another last day of school is […]
Where will the workers come from?
(A re-post from the past, as it is STILL prevalent) Where will the workers come from? The unemployment rate in my county was 2.2% (It is now 1.2%). The unemployment rate in all the counties around me was 2.0% or less (Now 1.5% or less). (1) The population of my county is projected to drop […]
What do YOU think?
Still four simple words. Back when we won the first of our two When Work Works (WWW) awards, that phrase “what do you think” was one of many insightful data points in our report. To reiterate what happened, PlastiCert, through our local chamber of commerce, engaged with the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, to assess our […]
Life after an Industrial Sourcing “Me Too”
Globalization, Free Trade, Off Shoring; while around since people started sailing the seas, it came to the forefront over 30 years ago. I remember a TV show some 10 years ago talking about Free Trade being essential to expanding efforts in improving foreign human rights, although it added in a “we hope”. (And if it […]
Getting OVER the small things
One of the more frequent services we are asked about is overmolding or two shot molding. Seems people are of the opinion it doesn’t work for smaller volume programs. That sentiment is based in the thought that it requires expensive tooling and specialized presses to overmold a plastic over a base metal or another plastic. […]