substantial employer in the Wyoming
Industrial Park. Today, I’d say that we’re up
to about 70 percent of one block – with six
plants all functioning.”
Those plants are home to an array of nearly
four dozen plastic injection molding
machines that range in size from40 to 3,000
tons and canproducemold sizes from10.6 x
10.6 inches to118 x 100 inches.
Technical advantages include robotic
automation, assembly and sequential valve
gate molding, while decorating services
include pad print, hot stamp, heat transfer,
in-mold, insert molding and painting. The
company also partners with several painting
businesses in and aroundGrandRapids.
And the acclaim Bott has received isn’t
limited solely to the bottomline.
He’s one of 33 nominees up for recognition
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