PlastiCert coworkers are, for the most part. Minnesotans. We have at least one transplanted Wisconsinite. They share many of the same “Minnesota Nice” type traits, (although they continue to obsess and display their affection for the Packers and Bucky Badger). That being said, PlastiCert itself, up until recently, had always been a Pennsylvania corporation Die Components.

If you are familiar with the story of PlastiCert, our founder, a native North Dakotan, was residing in Pennsylvania after traveling the world, opening injection molding plants for his employer. So when he branched out on his own, he started right there in PA. It was his family roots in the Midwest that led to PlastiCert learning of and acquiring the operation that would eventually become the Minnesota PlastiCert plant. The Minnesota plant annually filed in Minnesota as a “foreign” corporation.

We operated for years from the two different plants with little overlap in customers and production type. PA specialized in higher volumes and very small parts. MN exceled at larger parts and their accompanying smaller volumes. Hence, when the offshoring phenomenon took off, PlastiCert PA was the plant that took the biggest hit. Eventually, PA was shuttered during the depression in 200