NEWS New Berlin Plastics expands
Custom injection moulder New Berlin Plastics has signed a lease on a second building two blocks from its existing facility in New Berlin, Wisconsin. This will give the company 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m2
inadequate to meet pro- jected growth, the company sought another site. Fortunately, one on the
same industrial park became available. The first phase of the build-out will be to install
) of additional
manufacturing and ware- housing space, with 12 load- ing docks. This move has been made because of the growth of business and new customers in North America, the firm said. It started inves- tigating options for expan- sion last year and began by moving material and finished parts inventory to a nearby warehouse. Adding 45,000 sq ft to
the existing building was one possibility but, realising that this would soon be
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Omnium to buy ALS
French Tier One supplier Plastic Omnium has agreed to buy German automotive lighting player Automotive Lighting Systems (ALS) from AMS Osram for an enterprise value of €65m. ALS brings expertise in lighting technologies, electronics, and software for the development of smart lighting systems. The company said that
this represents an impor- tant milestone in its smart bumper and tailgate strategy. �
www.plasticomnium.com
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Above: New Berlin Plastics is adding a second building two blocks from its existing facility in Wisconsin
racking and warehouse equipment to house the inventory currently being stored offsite. New presses and cranes will follow, with the size range of these machines depending on customers’ needs. New Berlin aims to start manufac- turing in this new space in about six months’ time. “We plan to use the new facility to mould parts that have low complexity and long production runs. In other words, jobs that require minimal labour,” said President Jim Sch- neberger. “More complex jobs that
require secondary opera- tions and value-added services will stay in our existing facility.” �
www.nbplastics.com
TriMas buys medical moulder Intertech Plastic in US
US-based TriMas has acquired Intertech Plastics, a provider of complex, precision injection moulded components, expanding its product portfolio and capabilities for applications in the medical market. Intertech, which had sales of about $32m in 2021, has become part of the TriMas Packaging group. Intertech has two facilities in Denver, specialising in custom injection moulding with advanced manufactur- ing capabilities for medical, consumer and industrial applications. One is an ISO 13485-certified facility with
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a Class 8 controlled environ- ment and MedAccred accreditations, including for highly engineered, tight- tolerance components used in vascular access and in vitro diagnostics. “The addition of Inter-
tech, combined with TriMas’ December 2021 acquisition of Omega and our existing presence in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applica- tions, expands our product offerings into the life sciences market, which we believe has attractive long-term growth character- istics,” said President and CEO Thomas Amato.
The other Intertech facility makes products for food, wellness, hospitality and e-commerce logistics applications. The company has also invested in sustain- able resin technology, including the use of biopolymers in specific packaging applications. This is TriMas’ sixth acquisition in the packaging market since early 2019 and its second with capabilities and customer approvals in medical technology. As well as Packaging, it has Aero- space and Specialty Products groups. �
www.trimascorp.com
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