Innovation
Hoffer Plastics Receives IndustryWeek 2024 Best Plants Award
Recognizing operational excellence, customer focus and ongoing employee engagement SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (September 3, 2024) – Today, Hoffer Plastics, a leading provider of custom injection molding solutions, joins the ranks of manufacturing’s top leaders as an IndustryWeek Best Plants Award winner. This recognition is a celebration of Hoffer Plastics’ dedication to fostering a culture of…
Read MoreHoffer Plastics Named an Industryweek 2024 Best Plants Finalist, Received Illinois Manufacturing Association’s Community Impact Award
Hoffer Plastics, a leading provider of custom injection molding solutions, is pleased to announce two significant achievements. The recognitions showcase a dual commitment to driving higher quality and greater productivity for customers, while strengthening the community through educational opportunities and engagements that provide pathways to a brighter future. Named one of IndustryWeek’s 2024 Best Plants…
Read MoreSeal 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…
Read MoreCelebrating Three Generations of Manufacturing Innovation & Leadership at Hoffer Plastics
How Thinking Ahead Continues to Propel Hoffer Plastics into the Future Back in 1953, Robert Hoffer started out with a powerful idea: Putting the needs of customers, employees and the community first would drive a successful business. It’s a seemingly simple concept that has led Hoffer Plastics through 70 years of business. Today, into our…
Read MoreFive Essential Strategies for Risk Mitigation in Medical Molding Outsourcing
Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) recently shared an article authored by Millie Nuno, Hoffer Plastics Vice President of Sales. Read more below about the five essential strategies for risk mitigation in medical molding outsourcing. Selecting the right custom injection molder is more than a business decision; it signifies a commitment to upholding the integrity…
Read MorePlastChicks Host Hoffer Plastics’ Co-CEOs: Family Business Dynamics & Industry Innovation
In a recent episode of the PlastChicks Podcast, sponsored by SPE, hosts Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Lanazuri sat down with Hoffer Plastics’ third-generation leaders, Gretchen Hoffer Farb, Charlotte Hoffer Canning and Alex Hoffer. The Hoffer Plastics Co-CEOs explore the dynamics of navigating a family-owned, full-service custom injection-molding plastics business, their approach to innovation in the…
Read MoreHoffer Plastics Empowers Long-Term Career Growth
The belief in nurturing talent, fostering growth and empowering the next generation of leaders in the manufacturing industry has been a guiding principle across generations of family leadership. We continue to attract, retain and inspire the next workforce to grow not only its own future – but that of the manufacturing industry. In fact, we…
Read MoreMolding the Future
Hoffer Plastics Puts People First to Drive Career and Business Success Market trends evolve. Product demand ebbs and flows. Technologies advance. Yet, at the core of any successful manufacturing operation, there’s a crucial constant: the people. We live this truth every day at Hoffer Plastics. For 70 years, our business has always succeeded – and…
Read More5 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…
Read MoreReduce. Reuse. Recycle. Rethink.
How Hoffer Plastics Is Setting New Standards of Sustainability in Plastics How can we use less material? How can we use it more effectively? How can we give plastics a new life? As a plastics processor, we must keep these questions front and center. It’s about the future of our company, our community and our…
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