A Conversation with ... Fairway Injection Molds Inc.

摘要

A year ago, Westfall Technik Inc. (Westfall) acquired Fairway Injection Molds Inc. (Fairway), which originally was a family-owned business. How has this changed the way that Fairway operates and serves its customers? Dave Cockrell, vice president and general manager: Being part of a larger group is good for Fairway, its employees and its customers. One of the nice things about having a partner company in Westfall is that it is vertically integrated. We now have companies in place that start at the product-design level and migrate through prototype and development tooling and production tooling with Fairway and on to production molding. Several partners are doing production molding all the way through to executed, assembled products ready for shipment to the customer or potentially even to the customer's distribution centers, depending on what is needed. So, it is kind of neat to be part of the value stream where some of our customers are our sister companies, and that is what makes it a little different regarding moldmakers getting bigger. For example, we have three molding machines used for sampling molds, but we do not have a clean room. If we had to do a mold trial for a customer in a clean room, all we would have to do is call one of our sister companies and start making plans.