Injection molding: Happy birthday, Ube Machinery Inc.

Injection molding machinery supplier Ube Machinery Inc. of Ann Arbor, MI is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009 with an open house celebration at its North American manufacturing headquarters in Ann Arbor, with that event coming in the spring of 2010. A shipment in 1984 of eight 3500-ton injection molding machines to a facility in Michigan was the beginning of parent company Ube Industries’ U.S. engagement. That year also marked the establishment of the company’s first technical center in the U.S.