Onshoring tidal wave

So, your supply chain is focused offshore. Odds are it wasn’t your idea, but here you are. Now your focus is on reshoring. Whether you are in industrial equipment, sporting goods, telecom, construction, consumer, agricultural, computers, or, well, every market out there. You are looking for a source in the United States.

PlastiCert is your injection molding onshoring expert that services all those markets on a monthly basis.

   

 

     

 

Some of our customers have a dual source strategy, some of them reshored  after the snafus created by COVID. Some of them saw the writing on the wall regarding protectionism.

Regardless how it occurred, they all recognized the same thing. PlastiCert has been reshoring molds and injection molded products for years.

For the record, a lot of these programs are actually right-shoring. Meaning they shouldn’t have been offshore to begin with. That is a discussion for another day.

Bottom line, your management has tasked you with finding a domestic source for parts and products that are currently injection molded offshore.

PlastiCert has taken in molds from Asia, from Eastern Europe, from other North American locations. PlastiCert has also reverse engineered molds from finished parts that came from all over the world.

   

Sitting back thinking you are free from this mele’ of scrambling to do sourcing? Your injection molding is already sourced in the US? Where do you think all this capacity for reshoring is going to come from? The larger molders that WANT the larger reshored programs are already running at high capacity. They will create additional capacity, not by Cap-ex, but by booting their smaller dollar, lower volume customers. How much attention did you get from your injection molder prior to this? Accepting delivery volumes and run rates on your terms or theirs? Were they making all your product at once and making deliveries from finished goods? All of these issues are indicative of using an injection molder that is too large for you and will likely send you packing when a better customer comes along, like now.

PlastiCert specializes in short and medium run injection molding. We will ask for blanket orders to maximize your raw material buy, but then make product on your schedule and not ours.

If you want to reshore, do it right. Looking for a new supplier because you lost your present supplier? Call PlastiCert. We have capacity available because that is our business model. Our customers rarely forecast, because their customers rarely do for them. We run our business accordingly.

Our website home page says it all. Our job is to make you look good in your job! IN a bind reshoring or right shoring? Give us a call and then go deal with your other reshoring issues. This one is covered.