Red Star Contract Manufacturing Inc., which builds injection molding machines and provides injection molding for medical customers, is partnering with Warsaw Machinery Inc. to increase its capacity to build injection molding machines.
“This partnership allows us to continue expanding our reach to serve medical device and plastics equipment customers,” said Red Star President Scott Werstler. “Warsaw Machinery’s industry leading robotics and automation capabilities align with our machine building and medical device manufacturing.”
The partnership between Larwill, Ind.-based Red Star and Warsaw Machinery In Warsaw, Ind., will involve the companies aligning production capabilities to generate synergies that will increase machine building capacity, according to a release from Whitley County Economic Development Corporation (Larwill is located in Whitley County). Werstler and Larry Wettschurack, Warsaw Machinery's president worked together previously in rebuilding used molding machines and manufacturing new ones.
“We are quite happy to assist Red Star with its machine manufacturing,” said Wettschurack.”This partnership is a perfect fit with our company’s objectives.”
This announcement caps a year in which Red Star has made a number of significant advancements. In spring 2013, Red Star announced plans to expand its Larwill facility, add new equipment and create additional jobs, which was completed in summer 2013 Also in 2013, the company acquired the assets of contract grinding company Custom Surgical Products Inc., which added new production technologies and positioned Red Star with 10 grinding machines at its Larwill facility to offer custom needle grinding services to its medical device customers.
With more than 20 years of experience in the design and build of custom injection molding machines and more than 10 years of experience in custom molding, Red Star officials claim their company is one of few manufacturers that can design, build, validate and service the equipment they use to manufacture their customer’s products. In addition to medical, Red Star also serves markets in electrical, industrial, military and other industries.