You'll have a tough time finding very many blow molders that haven't made our ranking pages since its debut in 1991.
To date, we've tracked over $230 billion in North American bottle sales alone. Some 274 unique companies have made the list with $308 billion in related sales.
We've seen the average sales per company rise more than 239 percent to reach $144.3 million in last year's ranking.
Constar International Inc. made the No. 1 spot in 1991, with estimated sales of $445 million. The company has since been sold at a bankruptcy auction; some assets were bought by Plastipak Packaging Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., our No. 3 firm last year.
In the last 20 years of this ranking, we've noted 144 acquisitions, so there are even more if you count the years before these were electronic records.
Some trivia: We have written 1,184 articles that have mentioned blow molding since August 2012.
See more data and details on the growth of the plastics industry during the past 30 years in this week's print and digital editions.
