Team 1 Plastics Featured in National Plastics Industry Magazines

Team 1 Plastics, a plastic injection molding company for the transportation industry, was recently featured in two national plastics industry magazines, Plastics Business and MoldMaking Technology.

Plastics Business, which issues four magazines per year, featured Team 1’s use of email as a marketing tool in its 2018 Issue 2. The article, entitled Email Marketing for Molders: In-house marketing teams find value in reaching customers through email marketing, compared and contrasted the way that three different plastics companies use email marketing.

“Email marketing is nothing revolutionary in the world of marketing; however, applying it to the world of plastic manufacturing is a somewhat recent development,” wrote Katy Ibsen. “Various plastic processors have introduced the marketing tool in the past few years to inform and educate suppliers, customers and their communities.”

Ibsen wrote about Team 1 Plastics’ three-part strategy for email marketing: have relevant content that speaks to the right client, keep customers updated, and solicit new employees. The article concluded, “Overall, plastic processing companies are finding success in email marketing.”

It was the June 2018 issue of MoldMaking Technology which featured Team 1 Plastics and one of its suppliers, Alliance Specialties and Laser Sales. The article, Determination and Skill Save Critical Micro-Mold Cavity, recounted the problem that Team 1 had with a complex production mold and the solution that Alliance Specialties was able to provide.

Problem: The cavity block for a very small, complex part was damaged by broken ejector blades and proved nearly impossible to repair.

Solution: Alliance Specialties and Laser Sales employed expert laser welding and a combination of ultrasonic and microscopic polishing.

Results: The mold was properly repaired and is back in production as before, saving significant time and money.

Quoted in the article was Team 1’s Engineering Manager, Dave Seedorf, who explained the problem with the mold. “’The tool was producing a part that was in such bad shape that it was not even possible to trim excess material off the part to meet orders. We knew that whatever inventory we had on-hand was it, and that raised the situation to a whole new level of priority.’” Seedorf added that “no one—not even the mold manufacturer who originally built the tool—wanted to attempt to repair the mold.”

Then, Team 1 contacted Alliance Specialties – a company that it had not worked with before. Alliance “. . . offered Seedorf a deal. They told him that if they fixed it and it worked that he should pay them. On the other hand, they told him that if they tried to fix it and it was catastrophic that they would not charge him.”

The article explained the process and expertise that employees at Alliance Specialties applied to successfully repair the mold. Seedorf said, “’Within a couple of weeks and before our required completion date, the repair work was completed and returned.’”