Wayne Donohue

"By using RIM, we've basically eliminated all of the secondary operations that Lockheed-Martin previously had to do," said Wayne Donohue, Vice President and General Manager of GI Plastek's RIM Business Unit."The Bayflex system has been very good in this application.It's a very consistent material."

For more information on reaction injection molding, contact: GI Plastek, Dexter Industrial Green, 3 Perkins Way, Newburyport, Mass. 01950.Telephone: 978-462-9006.

For more information on the mail sorting system, contact: Lockheed-Martin Federal Systems, 1801 State Route 17C, Owego, N.Y. 13827-3998.Telephone: 607-751-2000.

"By using RIM, we've basically eliminated all of the secondary operations that Lockheed-Martin previously had to do," said Wayne Donohue, Vice President and General Manager of GI Plastek's RIM Business Unit."The Bayflex system has been very good in this application.It's a very consistent material."

For more information on reaction injection molding, contact: GI Plastek, Dexter Industrial Green, 3 Perkins Way, Newburyport, Mass. 01950.Telephone: 978-462-9006.

For more information on the mail sorting system, contact: Lockheed-Martin Tactical Defense Systems, 333 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, Minn. 55121.Telephone: 612-456-3558.

"By using RIM, we've basically eliminated all of the secondary operations that Lockheed-Martin previously had to do," said Wayne Donohue, Vice President and General Manager of GI Plastek's RIM Business Unit."The Bayflex system has been very good in this application.It's a very consistent material."

For more information on reaction injection molding, contact: GI Plastek, Dexter Industrial Green, 3 Perkins Way, Newburyport, Mass. 01950.Telephone: 978-462-9006.

The cost of freight has become a huge factor weighing in to the overall cost analysis," says Wayne Donohue, Vice President of GI Plastek."To be competitive, you must be relatively close to your customer."GI Plastek is a leading Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) supplier of very large parts for agriculture equipment, like tractors, and shipping is very expensive due to the size of the product.The company needs to be within 500 miles of its customers, or it loses competitiveness.It has production facilities in Ohio, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Iowa.

"If your plastic products typically require painting, this should be a consideration as the location of the paint facility needs to be very close to the molding facility, if not under the same roof," continues Donohue."These are some of the hidden costs when considering a new location.The next factor would be the area of economics.Considerations of local area pay rates and overall compensation packages become critical.Molding is an extremely competitive business and you must watch the costs very close up front."

Donohue adds that "one last, but not final consideration is aggressive economic development assistance for training and grants.

According to Wayne Donohue, Vice President and General Manager for GI Plastek's RIM
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Donohue also points out that: "GI Plastek's ability to accommodate innovative material technologies has been underscored by the fact that the company has employed its ProTekª system in molding a Bayer ¨ grade of high-density structural foam RIM polyurethane believed to be the first commercial application of a soy-based RIM formulation."The part, an access door for a John Deere Harvester Works combine replaces a component previously molded with a RIM system derived from standard petrochemical sources.