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August 24, 2020 08:06 AM

Custom rotomolders crowd the top of 2020's ranking

Hollee Keller
Editorial Research Coordinator
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    Amy Steinhauser

    If it's August, it must be time to talk rotomolding. This week's print issue of Plastics News brings our annual ranking of North American rotational molders, with 114 companies in this year's chart.

    Fiscal 2019 comes in with $2.47 billion in combined sales, a 2.3 percent drop from last year's report. To help explain why, consider that 32 percent of our top firms are ranked with slightly lower annual sales. This makes a huge impact, considering the top 25 spread goes from companies making $350 million to $23 million. It only takes a little change to make a difference.

    Custom molders overall had better results but not enough to offset these giants.

    The breakout from those number has $1.4 billion (58 percent) making proprietary products, 37 percent ($915 million) in custom molding and $130 million (5 percent) in captive manufacturing. Many firms reported no changes in sales year over year, however, for those that did report growth, 7 percent was the average gain, very much below the 2018 average gain of 18 percent.

    The biggest news came from Tank Holding Corp. whose acquisition march continued with Chem-Tainer Industries Inc. and Meese Inc.. both former top 20 companies, plus the manufacturing assets of Grupo Rotoplas SAB de CV. This gives Tank Holding a 24 percent gain to head up our chart once again.

    For a peek into next year's report for 2020, we're expecting a large gain for rotomolded learning and play products. Streetsboro, Ohio-based Simplay3 Co.'s products have been popular during quarantine. During our special report research, Simplay3 said they are anticipating more growth and planning to add employees.

    Back to School for 2020 will look different across the country as districts figure out how to keep everyone healthy while still getting an education. I can imagine kids learning about fractions from sand pies and conducting their own experiments with Simplay3's In & Out activity table, seen here in this YouTube video.

    Amy Steinhauser

    Our top custom rotomolders:

    1 Centro Inc., North Liberty, Iowa.

    2 Elkhart Plastics Inc., South Bend, Ind.

    3 Tank Holding Corp., Lincoln, Neb. & St. Bonifacius, Minn.

    4 Dutchland Plastics LLC, Oostburg, Wis.

    5 Solar Plastics LLC, Delano, Minn.

    6 Moeller Marine Products Inc., Sparta. Tenn.

    7 Ameri-Kart Corp., Bristol, Ind.

    8 Trilogy Plastics Inc., Alliance, Ohio.

    9 Acrylon Plastics Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba.

    10 Plasticraft Corp., Darien, Wis.

    A shout out to women-owned businesses in this ranking:

    • Crystal Morris, 0resident and owner of Gator Cases Inc., a maker of protective cases for musical instruments in Tampa, Fla.

    • Anita Cox, owner of Coon Manufacturing Inc., a custom molder in Spickard, Mo.

    Our biggest movers:

    • Accuform Polymers Inc. of Warsaw, N.C., moved up 14 spaces to No. 34.

    • Redline Plastics LLC of Manitowoc, Wis., moved up 11 spaces to No. 64.

    • Rochester Rotational Molding Inc. of Rochester, Ind., moved up 10 spaces to No. 85.

    • Horizon Manufacturing Group LLC of Lake Mills, Wis., is up nine to rank at No. 47.

    • Scribner Plastics Inc. of Rancho Cordova, Calif., to No. 97, up eight spaces.

    • EnviCor Enterprises LLC of Smithfield, N.C., moved up eight to No. 58.

    • Rotational Molding of Utah of Brigham City, Utah, up six to No. 42.

    • Ken Ross Inc. of Wylie, Texas, moved up 6 spaces to rank at No. 93.

    Michael Brothers Inc. of Prescott, Ariz. moved up five spaces to No. 82.

    The Association of Rotational Molders' President, Rick Carlsen, has posted a blog message: Understanding the State of the Rotomolding Industry with details for their Virtual Fall Meeting and Industry SWOT Analysis.

    Make sure to check out our ranking in the August 24 print edition of Plastics News and see our website for the full listing of 114 firms. www.plasticsnews.com/rankings/rotomolders.

    We also sell the ranking data in our online Data Store at www.plasticsnews.com/section/store.

    If you work for a company that is missing from the ranking, we would like to include you next time. Just send a note to Hollee Keller at [email protected] or mail your information to Plastics News, P.O. Box 790, Tallmadge, Ohio 44278.

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