While current business revenues have been suppressed by the COVID-19 epidemic, the future is looking quite bright at PlastiCert. Leads are way up!! The truly bright spot for PlastiCert has been the inquiries and quoting activity. The new business inquiries from both existing and potential customers has been exceptional. Over the last four months, inquiries […]

Excitement abounds today at PlastiCert as we receive a replacement to our biggest press. Leaving is a 440 Ton Cincinnati Milacron 42 oz shot injection press. Coming into it’s place is a 500 Ton Cincinnati Milacron 41 oz shot injection press. We’re a little busy orchestrating the move so we will provide more on the […]

The past months have been a challenge, not talking business wise or even technically, but work environment. PlastiCert’s mission statement stresses we are a service provider, i.e. providing composite injection molding expertise with our customers. The technical comes easy. We have a number of examples where we have finished projects for customers where our suppliers […]

In PlastiCert’s early days, a good deal of our business was in smaller and very small parts, before the term  “micro-molding” was coined. We had rows of small tonnage presses cranking out numerous small size and smaller volume designs. Those smaller size parts were prime for offshoring, as the shipping costs were so minimal. As […]

News reports indicate that manufacturing is starting a slow return to pre-COVID business. Barron’s reported the Federal Reserve is stating that in June, Industrial production climbed 5.4% while manufacturing output jumped 7.2%  compared to a month earlier. Reports also reference that gains are not totally due to the rise in automobile production as they came […]

While watching the news, a component of the story talked about a HOPE that things were getting better. It must have been a general news show, rather than a business news show. Mainly because I think HOPE, in the personal world, is different than HOPE in the business world. HOPE, in the personal world is […]

Sometimes you need to stay focused on where you are going, despite bumps in the road and hardships that present themselves. PlastiCert has been blogging about our capital improvement plan, having acquired multiple new injection molding presses and machine shop equipment. The COVID-19 hit and PlastiCert has some at risk people at home, a diminished […]

Last week I lost a good friend. I was just out of college 2 ½ years when Carl hired me, into a small (yet very successful) medical device company when I had no medical device manufacturing experience.  I was a “high performer” in my previous companies and positions but was quite out of my element. […]

The big debate, open things up to avoid economic disaster or remained sequestered to stay healthy or even alive. Like the old saying goes, opinions are like ______, everyone has got one. Many of those opinions are based upon the public’s personal experiences. In major metros, former hot spots, the risks are treated with a […]

As a business leader and community member where PlastiCert is located, I am committed to the principles of greater equity, diversity and inclusion. I was appalled to watch the video recording the recent death of Mr. George Floyd while being restrained by Minneapolis Police. I wanted to say I was shocked. Considering this event, and […]