Mary K asked: I am trying to figure out what kind of finished goods manufacturing is still done in the US? Are there any areas that are actually increasing their business?
My reason for the questions is that I work for a small injection molder (plastics) and we just lost a big customer to a mexican molder. Cheap labor, nafta, no environmental regs, etc….
Most of our customers are either hurting (like automotive industry) or appliance makers, which are also slowing down.
We offer some secondary services such as assembly, painting, printing, etc.
Just looking for help to try to find areas to target to here in the US since it seems like lots of our business is moving out of the country. Any suggestions?
Trying to keep this positive, any suggestions of areas to target or groups to join or places to look?
I know there are a lot of smart ppl that answer here on yahoo, hoping someone can give me a spark.
To answer the question about what we do…
We have from 20 to 440 T machines, so mainly smaller precision parts.
Some things we mold are:
**appliance knobs, buttons handles, bezels (painted hi- low or numbers)
**plastic water and polution filters
**electronics cases, buttons,
**automotive cases, covers, knobs, buttons, light tubes, reflectors, )
mostly under hood, part of guages in dash or inside the door frame parts)
** medical cases (we are not clean room or white room though, so not too much medical)
Consumer goods- mop assemblies, small buckets, scrapers, etx.
We do some pretty complicated precise parts and do them well. Not optics, but fairly difficult.
Emma
