LEWISTON, Minn. – The president of PlastiCert, Craig Porter, said that revenues have slipped a bit due to the pandemic, but, he is quick to add, the future for the injection-molding business is solid. “Leads are way up,” Porter said in an interview with the trade magazine Plastics Today. “Our quote-to-book ratio is 80%.” Porter was interviewed in an article that concluded that the global slowdown caused by COVID-19 hasn’t put much of a dent in the U.S. molding industry. To be sure, however, there are shifts in the market. PlastiCert, for example, is seeing its micro-molding business return, Porter said. In its early days, the company specialized in micro parts whose small size lent themselves to low-cost shipping to foreign customers. The company grew into higher tonnage parts like electronic cases, electronic mounting frames, even crossbow stocks, he said. Now the company, he said, is moving back back to its roots, shooting parts that are barely bigger than the pellets of resin the company uses to mold them.
