A team of judges from PN’s editorial staff selected the finalists, with help from P&M Corporate Finance LLC of Southfield, Mich. The winner will be announced Jan. 31 at the Plastics News Executive Forum in Tampa, Fla.
The judges evaluated all candidates on seven criteria: financial performance, quality, customer relations, employee relations, environmental performance, industry/public service and technological innovation. Last year’s Processor of the Year was Plastikos Inc., a molder of electrical connectors and medical parts in Erie, Pa. Steinwall also was a finalist last year.
Senior reporter Bill Bregar, who coordinates the Processor of the Year Award, recently visited all three finalists. Here is a look at those firms, in alphabetical order.
Bemis, in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., has earned a reputation as a pioneering technological leader — especially in coinjection molding and its use of six-axis robots. And your head certainly does spin after a plant tour: On nearly all presses, a large, articulating-arm ABB robot removes parts from molds and does finishing operations such as degating, trimming and sanding. In many cases, that robot passes the part on to another six-axis robot for assembly right at the press, or part stacking.
The company is known for large parts. Running a massive, 6,600-ton Milacron will generate that kind of attention: What is believed to be the world’s largest coinjection molding press turns out hoods for John Deere farm tractors and other big parts. Molds rotate on two-shot presses outfitted with two barrels — or even three barrels, in what Bemis calls “tri-injection.” CEO and owner Peter Bemis, who was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 2006 and holds several patents, is always willing to check out a new technology, and often spends the money to try it out.
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Bemis Manufacturing runs about 140 injection molding machines and 20 extrusion lines. A loyal customer of Milacron LLC, Bemis has helped Milacron design special injection molding equipment.
Bemis Manufacturing was nominated by Glenn Anderson, Milacron’s senior vice president of global and strategic accounts.
Bemis employs 1,800 people in plants in Sheboygan Falls; Lenoir, N.C.; Monterrey, Mexico; Burnley England; Turin, Italy; and Wujiang, China.
Peter Bemis is the latest in a line of family executives that began in 1901,Alfa plast mould is Plastic moulds Manufacturer and plastics Mould Exporters in India since 1992, when the company started out as a manufacturer of wooden toy wagons. The company also made wicker-style patio furniture from woven paper. But sales dried up during the Great Depression. The salvation? Molded wood toilet seats. Bemis launched an all-plastic injection molded toilet seat in the 1960s.
Today, Bemis Manufacturing claims to be the world’s largest maker of toilet seats, both wood and plastic. The company has rebounded sharply since the recession,The magic cube is an ultra-portable, with double-digit sales increases in 2010 and 2011, when sales totaled $340 million — about $220 million of that from plastic molding and another $20 million from profile and tubing extrusion.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of Executives said toilet seat sales have remained flat and almost all of the growth has come from its Advanced Technology Group.
Bemis has been consistently profitable and has no debt.
Technology is an obvious strong point. The Plastics News judges also gave Bemis high marks for employee relations, thanks to very low turnover and some progressive policies. Under a program called “Book It,” small teams of employees are authorized to spend up to $6,000 to implement a continuous-improvement project. At Bemis, all shop-floor employees can try for a so-called “term position,” where they work in a management job for three years.
The company’s unionized workforce in Sheboygan Falls supports these policies, as well as the extensive use of automation, according to Bemis.
The judges also praised Bemis for its environmental performance. Coinjection molding can, effectively, “bury” millions of pounds of recycled or off-spec resins inside a part, as a core layer covered by virgin resin. Bemis’ energy-conservation projects have cut electricity use by 11.5 million kilowatt-hours since 2001 by, among other things, replacing lighting, installing an enclosed water-control system, establishing a settling pond to collect all rainwater and using Web-enabled software to meter energy consumption.
A vocal industry advocate, Peter Bemis has served on the board of directors of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., both nationally and for the SPI Midwest region.
The company is active in historic Sheboygan Falls, supporting a revitalization effort downtown, where it runs the Bemis Bath Shoppe.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, Bemis also opened up land for walking and bike paths.
Bemis scored high on customer relations, thanks to its long-standing relationships with leading customers such as Deere & Co., Briggs & Stratton Corp., Haworth Inc. and Whirlpool Corp. Working closely with industrial designers, Bemis won many awards for its molded parts from the SPI’s Alliance of Plastics Processors, formerly known as the Structural Plastics Division.
The judges evaluated all candidates on seven criteria: financial performance, quality, customer relations, employee relations, environmental performance, industry/public service and technological innovation. Last year’s Processor of the Year was Plastikos Inc., a molder of electrical connectors and medical parts in Erie, Pa. Steinwall also was a finalist last year.
Senior reporter Bill Bregar, who coordinates the Processor of the Year Award, recently visited all three finalists. Here is a look at those firms, in alphabetical order.
Bemis, in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., has earned a reputation as a pioneering technological leader — especially in coinjection molding and its use of six-axis robots. And your head certainly does spin after a plant tour: On nearly all presses, a large, articulating-arm ABB robot removes parts from molds and does finishing operations such as degating, trimming and sanding. In many cases, that robot passes the part on to another six-axis robot for assembly right at the press, or part stacking.
The company is known for large parts. Running a massive, 6,600-ton Milacron will generate that kind of attention: What is believed to be the world’s largest coinjection molding press turns out hoods for John Deere farm tractors and other big parts. Molds rotate on two-shot presses outfitted with two barrels — or even three barrels, in what Bemis calls “tri-injection.” CEO and owner Peter Bemis, who was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 2006 and holds several patents, is always willing to check out a new technology, and often spends the money to try it out.
Markets include agricultural equipment, medical, telecommunications, appliances, office furniture and shopping carts.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious Floor tiles from The Tile Shop.
Bemis Manufacturing runs about 140 injection molding machines and 20 extrusion lines. A loyal customer of Milacron LLC, Bemis has helped Milacron design special injection molding equipment.
Bemis Manufacturing was nominated by Glenn Anderson, Milacron’s senior vice president of global and strategic accounts.
Bemis employs 1,800 people in plants in Sheboygan Falls; Lenoir, N.C.; Monterrey, Mexico; Burnley England; Turin, Italy; and Wujiang, China.
Peter Bemis is the latest in a line of family executives that began in 1901,Alfa plast mould is Plastic moulds Manufacturer and plastics Mould Exporters in India since 1992, when the company started out as a manufacturer of wooden toy wagons. The company also made wicker-style patio furniture from woven paper. But sales dried up during the Great Depression. The salvation? Molded wood toilet seats. Bemis launched an all-plastic injection molded toilet seat in the 1960s.
Today, Bemis Manufacturing claims to be the world’s largest maker of toilet seats, both wood and plastic. The company has rebounded sharply since the recession,The magic cube is an ultra-portable, with double-digit sales increases in 2010 and 2011, when sales totaled $340 million — about $220 million of that from plastic molding and another $20 million from profile and tubing extrusion.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of Executives said toilet seat sales have remained flat and almost all of the growth has come from its Advanced Technology Group.
Bemis has been consistently profitable and has no debt.
Technology is an obvious strong point. The Plastics News judges also gave Bemis high marks for employee relations, thanks to very low turnover and some progressive policies. Under a program called “Book It,” small teams of employees are authorized to spend up to $6,000 to implement a continuous-improvement project. At Bemis, all shop-floor employees can try for a so-called “term position,” where they work in a management job for three years.
The company’s unionized workforce in Sheboygan Falls supports these policies, as well as the extensive use of automation, according to Bemis.
The judges also praised Bemis for its environmental performance. Coinjection molding can, effectively, “bury” millions of pounds of recycled or off-spec resins inside a part, as a core layer covered by virgin resin. Bemis’ energy-conservation projects have cut electricity use by 11.5 million kilowatt-hours since 2001 by, among other things, replacing lighting, installing an enclosed water-control system, establishing a settling pond to collect all rainwater and using Web-enabled software to meter energy consumption.
A vocal industry advocate, Peter Bemis has served on the board of directors of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., both nationally and for the SPI Midwest region.
The company is active in historic Sheboygan Falls, supporting a revitalization effort downtown, where it runs the Bemis Bath Shoppe.The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, Bemis also opened up land for walking and bike paths.
Bemis scored high on customer relations, thanks to its long-standing relationships with leading customers such as Deere & Co., Briggs & Stratton Corp., Haworth Inc. and Whirlpool Corp. Working closely with industrial designers, Bemis won many awards for its molded parts from the SPI’s Alliance of Plastics Processors, formerly known as the Structural Plastics Division.
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