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72 Years of Manufacturing Excellence and Community Impact: VIDEO
Founded in 1953 by Robert “Bob” and Helen Hoffer, Hoffer Plastics is celebrating its 72-year anniversary with an ongoing commitment to driving customer, employee and industry success. A full-service contract manufacturing partner, we produce more than three billion plastic parts annually with a consistent 99.45% on-time delivery record. The company serves customers in markets that…
Spouts and Caps: Unwrapping the Magic of Flexible Packaging
Tomte Cake, a company delivering a fresh take on a beloved holiday classic – gingerbread houses, captured the attention of audiences on Shark Tank. As they began to prepare commercializing their product, they identified the need for a proven, reliable partner to provide secure, child-friendly caps and spouts for its flexible frosting pouches. Hoffer Plastics’…
Seal It Right: Selecting the Best Cap and Spout for Your Flexible Packaging Application
A convenient, lighter-weight solution that uses less material and extends shelf life, flexible packaging is flexing its strengths in the marketplace today. This type of packaging, which you mostly recognize in formats like pouches, bags and more, is widely utilized across a variety of industries from food and beverage to personal and home care solutions…
5 Keys to Minimizing Your Risks When Outsourcing Medical Molding
Manufacturing is a people business. Over 70 years at Hoffer Plastics, it’s one of the most important lessons we’ve learned. Nowhere is that truer than in custom medical molding, where the health and safety of people – more specifically, patients – is on the line. Medical product manufacturers are rightly concerned about minimizing risks wherever…
Hoffer Plastics and Mespack Partner for Breakthrough Innovation
Featured at this year’s Global Pouch Forum: Partners Hoffer Plastics, a family owned custom injection molder based in South Elgin, IL, and Mespack, a global producer of flexible packaging machinery based in Barcelona Spain. A shared vision and passion for innovation in packaging, and a perfect match of complementary skills and technical expertise. Hoffer and…
Hoffer Plastics Adds Chaplaincy Program
During difficult times of stress, hardship, fear and uncertainty as is the case with the Covid-19 pandemic, people need as much support and guidance as possible. Hoffer Plastics fully embraces this notion, and recently initiated an onsite Chaplaincy program. The Chaplain provides an additional, confidential resource to Hoffer’s employee family as an augment to the…
The Concept of Circularity
Read about exciting initiatives around the globe as visionary leaders work to move us toward a more circular economy The Concept of Circularity Can you envision a global economic system where products are conceptualized and designed for re-use or re-purposing from the onset? That describes a circular economy. It’s all about reuse, sharing, repair, refurbishment, re-manufacturing…
It’s National Work and Family Month
In this issue, we highlight the importance of creating healthier, more flexible work environments and share highlights of some innovative approaches. Work/Life Balance: A Top Priority A healthy work/life balance is vitally important to those currently employed and those seeking prospective jobs 53% of employees say a role that allows them to have greater work-life…
Children Fighting Cancer. What We Can Do To Help
It’s back to school time for many – but not for all. September is National Childhood Cancer month. We dedicate this month’s issue to all children who inspire us with their brave fight against cancer. Too many, too soon Cancer is the #1 cause of death by disease among children Roughly 16,000 children in the U.S. will…
It’s National Wellness Month
We’re sharing some interesting new trends and approaches to wellness that we hope will inform and inspire you. Read on! Prescribing Nature What if your doctor prescribed a 30 minute walk outdoors instead of prescribing a drug? It’s happening, and there’s solid science behind it. A study among the world’s longest living people (> 100)…
It’s Mid Year 2019. Time for a Turnaround?
It’s Mid-Year 2019. Time for a Turnaround? July is the heart of summer, but also marks the onset of the second half of the year. Much like making resolutions in January, the second half is a great time to reassess and get back on track for achieving personal and professional goals. Stay cool, and go for it!…
National Safety Month
June is National Safety Month! Learn about the devastating impact of workplace injuries and simple steps you can take to improve safety on the job. Welcome, summer, and a shout out to all the grads, dads and father figures this month. The High Cost of an Unsafe Workplace In the U.S., a worker is injured…
