Anaheim, Calif. — Waterbury, Conn.-based contract manufacturer Forum Plastics LLC is rebranding to become Forum Contract Manufacturing to better represent its range of services and capabilities.
"It's part of growing up," Joseph Stephens, director of sales and marketing, told Plastics News at MD&M West in Anaheim. "We're looking at growing our capabilities and services to all of our customers. Everything from printing, clean room assembly … a lot of automation.
"We have some very aggressive growth plans in the next few years," Stephens said. "We'd like to expand into areas that we're not in now. That could be through acquisition or bringing capabilities in-house."
After facing supply chain issues in the last few years, Stephens added, customers want "fewer and fewer" vendors.
"We welcome … low-volume [production]," he said. "That's one of the ways to grow the business. Handle the customers' problems and they'll trust you to handle … their bigger product lines."
Since Forum is owned by a family trust, it does "things for people that other companies don't," Stephens said. "We have several customers that we make 500 parts a year for. But then we have customers that we make 5 million parts a year for. On average, we make between 4 [million] to 6 million parts per month."
It also offers tool financing for startups and smaller companies, he said.
The corporate rebranding will be accompanied by an updated website, according to a Feb. 2 news release.
Forum Contract Manufacturing's capabilities include injection molding, prototyping, modular molding, automation, clean room assembly and CT part scanning mostly for medical, but also for the electronics, automotive and consumer products markets. It has about 160 employees.