Pittsburgh — As it approaches its 75th anniversary, LSR molder Moxness Products Inc. is looking to grow in aerospace, automotive and other markets.
"We're getting our name back out there," President Thomas Lapsley said Sept. 10 at Silicone Expo USA in Pittsburgh. "Aerospace can be a big opportunity for us. And automotive is big, but it's still a growing market."
Moxness is looking at adding new LSR part production lines to increase capacity at its headquarters in East Troy, Wis., Lampsey said. The firm sells into health care, industrial, food and beverage, computer, military and consumer products end markets.
After starting as a tool and die company, the firm was incorporated as Moxness Silicone Rubber Parts in 1950. Thistle Group, an investment firm in Fort Wayne, Ind., has owned Moxness since 2003. Thistle also is part owner of US Silicones LLC, a silicones compounder in Fort Wayne.
Products and services offered by Moxness include:
• Liquid silicone and LSR two-shot, with LSR/thermoplastics also available.
• High-consistency rubber (HCR) and fluorosilicones including HCR and F-LSR.
• Specialty rubber materials including fluoroelastomers, hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber, polychloroprene rubber and ethylene propylene diene monomer.
• Compression, transfer and injection molding.
• Light assembly and special packaging.
Moxness employs 35 at a 40,000-square-foot site. Its plant includes a tool building/mold maintenance shop, 13 LSR presses, 16 transfer/compression presses and three HCR injection presses.