Westfall Technik has acquired AMS Plastics, a recently formed company that provides highly productive plastics manufacturing solutions for medical, packaging and consumer goods industries.
AMS Plastics with its offices in El Cajon, CA and its 75,000Ft2 manufacturing site in Ciudad Industrial Nueva, Tijuana, Mexico expands not only Westfall’s footprint but also its manufacturing capabilities. AMS Plastics operates 32 injection molding machines from 50 to 1,000 tons of clamp force including vertical and multi-component machinery.
The medical capabilities include a 4,000Ft2 clean room and the ISO 13485 certification needed for demanding medical device and disposable manufacturing. AMS Plastics offers a number of cost effective value-added services for the decoration and assembly for a variety of applications.
This acquisition supports the Westfall Technik vision to build a market-leading integrated network of plastics experts that provide optimally engineered solutions throughout the plastics manufacturing process. Westfall Technik can now offer comprehensive DFM services quickly and comprehensively as well as rapid prototyping and short-run molding to the medical, industrial and consumer goods industries.
This significant increase in both footprint and molding capacity allow Westfall to flawlessly execute everything from low volume – high mix to extremely high-volume packaging or medical disposable applications.
Westfall Technik is now well positioned to offer a true end to end supply chain manufacturing system and more importantly an unparalleled ability to optimized time to market for new product introductions. Westfall’s intention is to continue to expand their footprint and capabilities domestically and internationally to complete their technology roadmap.
Source: Company Press Release