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Just back to Houston after serving in the Air Force during World War II, a 21-year-old L.D. Blackwell had to lobby his congressman for a veteran's exemption to buy an injection molding machine.

A diversified revenue stream is proving invaluable in the move toward medical at Singapore’s Univac Precision Engineering.

Univac started off as a high-precision toolmaker in 1980 with fewer than 100 employees before entering a sustained growth phase in the 1990s. This period saw the processor add injection molding capability for the first time in Singapore, and then a processing operation in Malaysia in 1998 through an acquisition of a local molder. Currently, the company has more than 1500 employees under its wing.

Tessy Plastics’ investment in China not only brought opportunities in Asia; it also attracted new business to Tessy’s North American operations.

When GW Plastics made the commitment to key customers to supply them locally in China back in 2006, it promised to service their precision processing needs at exactly the same level as at all its other global facilities.

An Australian molder is proving that highly successful manufacturing and the environment need not be incompatible with a business strategy that emphasizes recycling and resource conservation.

Creating a new paradigm for medical molding while creating a new company out of several existing businesses is a challenge only those with industry expertise can take on. After one year, MedPlast is well on its way to success.

Drawing its name from the proprietary spiral-wrap product it created in 1955 and still manufactures, custom profile and tube extruder The Spiratex Co. has spent the next half-century-plus expanding its business and reach so that it now has more than 1000 customers.

Thinking small has significant potential in diagnostic devices.

With a single 60-metric-ton Toshiba all-electric injection press to its name, MiniFAB’s molding operation couldn’t get much smaller. But the machine’s being put to good use as a core component of the company’s core business: the design, integration, and manufacture of polymer-based micro-engineered systems for the biotech, health, agriculture, food, and environmental sectors.

There’s no business like family business, especially in times of financial crisis. These companies often have a significant advantage in equity capital and longevity versus other types of ownership.

According to a recent study published by a leading German economic research institute, about 95% of Germany-based companies are family-run. These businesses contribute about 41.5% to the overall turnover and provide 57% of all jobs in the country, the survey states.

Born on March 1, 2008 with a pedigree that includes General Motors and Delphi, Inteva Products is a new name among Tier One suppliers. But its 90 years of production experience make it an old soul in automotive.