A peek behind our blow molders' rankings data

Today Plastics News published its annual ranking of North American blow molders. Here are some interesting facts about the blow molding sector: This year we're ranking 139 firms, with blow molding sales of $17,194.31 million. That is up from last year's sales of $16, 127.98 million with 140 ranked firms. An interesting fact about the sales numbers is that just over $745 million of the sales increase came from the Top 10 companies. The average sales per company increased 7 percent. The following are new companies to the top 100 this year:

Engineered Plastic Components Inc. of Grinnell, IA, Arch Plastics Packaging LLC of Chattanooga, TN, Priority Plastics Inc. of Portland, IN.

We would like to welcome two companies back to our Top 100 this year. They are:

R&D Molder Inc. of Georgetown, TX ranked at 96, Anchor Plastics Ltd. of L'Assomption, Quebec ranked at 97.

Here is a list of some growing companies in our ranking this year:

Miniature Precision Components Inc. with sales of $30 ranked at 43 moved up 33 spots from last year. WEK Industries Inc. with sales of $40 ranked at 39 moved up 24 spots from last year. Anchor Plastics Ltd. with sales of $7.5 ranked at 97 moved up 12 spots from last year. R&D Molders Inc. with sales of $7.59 ranked at 96 moved up 11 spots from last year. Indiana Bottle Co. Inc. with sales of $6.056 ranked at 105 moved up 8 spots from last year. KLW Plastics Inc. with sales of $25 ranked at 50 moved up 6 spots from last year.

Make sure to check out the full report in the Nov. 12 print edition of Plastics News. We also sell our full ranking in the PN store on our website. And thanks to Lisa Pyles, PN's editorial administrative assistant, for this peek behind the rankings data.