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Westfall Technik buys CPP and opens medical plant
Fast-growing US injection moulder Westfall Technik has acquired Carolina Precision Plastics (CPP) and its wholly owned subsidiaries, extend- ing its footprint to the south-eastern US. This came within two weeks of the firm opening a medical moulding plant in Chicago.
CPP has two plants in
Mocksville and Asheboro, North Carolina, and a third at Kaiping in China’s Guang- dong province. These cover about 31,000 m2
combined, with each of
them housing about 100 injection moulding machines. CPP specialises in heavy-wall PET
jars, notably for personal care applica- tions, with clients including L’Oréal, Estée Lauder and Burt’s Bees, plus bev- erages and consumer goods. It also has expertise in high-volume, fully automated assembly and decorating, and it uses large volumes of recycled resins and biopolymers in its products. CPP is Westfall’s 19th
North Ameri-
can acquisition since it was founded in Las Vegas in 2017. COO Mark Gomul- ka said: “This highly strategic, synergis-
Westfall Technik’s new medical facility is a fully refurbished and refitted building located in Chicago
months alone, Westfall has tripled its clean room space in Riverside, California; doubled it in Union City, California; and installed new clean rooms at its plants in both New Richmond, Wiscon- sin, and Tijuana, Mexico. “This is a necessary
location for us, right in the Midwest, in the middle of the medical corridor that runs from Chicago up to Wiscon- sin,” the firm said. It already
tic deal greatly strengthens our presence in the fast-moving consumer goods segment.” Westfall’s new medical moulding and tooling facility is a fully refurbished and refitted 3,700 m2
building. It
features three Class 8-certified clean rooms and one GMP white space with space for up to 38 injection presses of 350-400 tonnes clamping force, plus a fully functional tool room with climate- controlled mould storage space. The investment was made specula-
tively, in anticipation of continued strong growth in demand for North American manufacturing capacity from medical device OEMs. In the past 18
operates tool- and mould-making facilities in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The Chicago site had belonged to
All West Plastics, then from 2006, MGS, which closed it in 2020 to consolidate production in Wisconsin. Westfall bought it as a shell and hired some former MGS employees. The firm also plans to install three M3 machines there to create a micromoulding centre of excellence. In the longer term, it may also move production of the NxtBio brand of bioscience laboratory consumables it acquired in 2019 to Chicago. �
www.westfall-technik.com
Napco buys PVC moulder Lasco Fittings
North American Pipe Corpo- ration (Napco), a subsidiary of Westlake Chemical that makes PVC pipes of all kinds, is to acquire Lasco Fittings from Dutch firm Aalberts. The deal should close in the second half of 2021. Terms were not disclosed. Lasco makes injection moulded PVC fittings, specialising in half-inch (13 mm) to four-inch (10 cm)
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fittings for the US plumbing, industrial and other markets. It has 560 employees at its 46,500 m² manufacturing and distribution facility at Brownsville, Tennessee, plus
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eight regional distribution facilities.
Napco VP Andre Battistin
said that Lasco’s product mix “is very complementary to our existing range of pipe
and fittings products primarily with diameters of four or more inches and will bring additional fittings prod- ucts to Napco’s offerings.” �
www.westlake.com
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IMAGE: WESTFALL
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