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Ranked by North American tooling sales, may include additional respondents

Originally published May 5, 2008, in Plastics News. Some data may have been updated.

Mold sales (millions) Rank Company 2007 2006 1 Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. a      Bolton, Ontario 121.0 E 120.0 E 2 Wentworth Technologies Co. Ltd.      Burlington, Ontario 67.0 E 65.0 E 3 Omega Tool Corp.      Oldcastle, Ontario 65.0 65.0 4 Hi-Tech Mold & Engineering Inc.      Rochester Hills, MI 60.0 E 61.6 5 H.S. Die & Engineering Inc.      Grand Rapids, MI 57.0 E 58.0 E 6 Proper Mold & Engineering Inc.      Warren, MI 53.0 E 53.0 E 7 Active Burgess Mould & Design      Windsor, Ontario 50.0 52.0 E 7 Concours Mold Inc.      Windsor, Ontario 50.0 55.0 9 Triangle Tool Corp.      Milwaukee, WI 48.5 45.0 10 Reko International Group Inc. (P)      Oldcastle, Ontario 44.1 48.0 11 MGS Manufacturing Group Inc.      Germantown, WI 39.7 38.8 12 NyproMold Inc. b      Clinton, MA 36.0 36.0 13 Build-A-Mold Ltd.      Windsor, Ontario 35.0 38.0 13 R&D Tool and Engineering Co.      Lee's Summit, MO 35.0 30.0 15 Delta Tooling Co. c      Auburn Hills, MI 34.0 39.5 15 Paragon Die & Engineering Co.      Grand Rapids, MI 34.0 29.0 17 StackTeck Systems Inc.      Brampton, Ontario 32.0 36.0 18 Strohwig Industries Inc.      Richfield, WI 31.0 31.0 19 Rexam Mold Manufacturing      Buffalo Grove, IL 29.0 29.0 20 Commercial Tool & Die Inc.      Comstock Park, MI 22.7 22.7 21 Windsor Mold Inc.      Windsor, Ontario 21.0 E 22.0 E 22 MSI Mold Builders      Cedar Rapids, IA 16.0 16.4 23 Prestige Mold Inc.      Rancho Cucamonga, CA 15.2 18.7 23 Tech Mold Inc.      Tempe, AZ 15.2 14.0 25 Ramko Manufacturing Inc.      Hemet, CA 15.0 15.0 26 Minco Tool and Mold Inc.      Dayton, OH 12.9 12.9 27 Advance Mold & Manufacturing Inc.      Manchester, CT 10.6 13.1 28 Reddog Industries Inc.      Erie, PA 10.0 8.0 29 Extreme Tool & Engineering Inc.      Wakefield, MI 7.2 7.2 30 Suburban Tool & Die Co. Inc.      Erie, PA 7.0 6.5 31 Mold-Tech Inc.      Albertville, MN 5.5 5.3 32 American Tool & Engineering Inc.      Greene, IA 5.0 5.5 33 Mauston Tool Corp.      Mauston, WI 4.3 4.3 34 ABA-PGT Inc.      Manchester, CT 4.0 4.2 34 Graphic Tool Corp.      Itasca, IL 4.0 4.0 36 Matrex Mold & Tool Inc.      Portage, WI 3.0 3.0 37 Diversified Mold & Castings LLC      Warrensville Heights, OH 2.8 2.6 38 Dexterous Mold & Tool Inc.      Evansvlle, IN 2.7 2.5 39 Built-Rite Tool & Die Inc.      Lancaster, MA 2.0 2.0 40 Hi-Tech Mold & Tool Inc.      Pittsfield, MA 1.7 1.7 41 East Penn Precision Inc.      Allentown, PA 0.6 0.6 42 Kennick Mold & Die Inc.      Cleveland, OH 0.4 0.4

Notes: (P)=Publicly Held      N.A.=Not available All sales figures are in U.S. dollars and represent plastic production molds built in North America by noncaptive toolmakers. E Plastics News and industry estimates. These figures were not provided by the company. CURRENCY NOTE: All Canadian sales figures have been converted to U.S. dollars using the average annual exchange rate for the 12 months of each company's fiscal year. For fiscal years that correspond to calendar-year 2007 the following average annual rate was used: C$1=US$0.936. All companies' fiscal years correspond the calendar-year 2007 unless otherwise noted. a) Toronto-based public company Onex Corp. acquired Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., via Onex’s private equity investment funds, for $960 million in December 2007. Husky was delisted Dec. 14 from the Toronto Stock Exchange as a publicly held company. Onex is traded on TSX. b) NyproMold Inc. is 50 percent owned by Nypro Inc., but less than half of the mold maker’s sales are generated from molds sold to and used by Nypro Inc. c) Delta Tooling Co. previously was listed under parent Delta Technologies Group.

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