Innovative Ultrasonic Spouted Pouch Sealing Solution Debuts at PACK EXPO 2024

Collaborative innovation pays off as Dukane, Effytec and Hoffer Plastics launch mono-material solution. SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (October 15, 2024) – What happens when you bring together a state-of-the-art packaging equipment manufacturer, an innovative plastic welding technologies leader and an award-winning injection molder? A sophisticated new mono-material polyethylene (PE) packaging solution that was created from the…

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IndustryWeek Best Plants Award Winners: Championship Effort, Championship Achievement

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Hoffer Plastics is humbled and honored to be chosen as a 2024 Best Plants Award Winner by IndustryWeek! This award recognizes more than 71 years of operational excellence, exceptional customer care and employee satisfaction within its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in South Elgin, Illinois. The company’s success is attributed to its high-volume, high production capability, which…

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Four Ways Flexible Packaging Can Strengthen a Circular Economy

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Sustainability can’t be something we just talk about in the plastics industry. Not when 87% of the public is worried about the impact of plastics on the environment, according to Accenture. That’s why companies across the country are working to transform the traditional model of plastics production, use and disposal. Circularity ensures that every stage…

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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…

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Hoffer Plastics Named an Industryweek 2024 Best Plants Finalist, Received Illinois Manufacturing Association’s Community Impact Award

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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…

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Hoffer Plastics Empowers Long-Term Career Growth

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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…

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Molding the Future

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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…

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5 Keys to Minimizing Your Risks When Outsourcing Medical Molding

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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…

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Crain’s Chicago Business May 9 2022

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Hoffer Plastics in South Elgin doesn’t have a CEO. Instead, three siblings have taken charge of the company, which was founded in 1953 by their grandfather, Robert Hoffer, and later run by their father, William, who gave up the CEO title two years ago. Charlotte Hoffer-Canning, 44, is chief culture officer. Her brother, Alex Hoffer, 40,…

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Hoffer Plastics’ Trust-T-Lok spout, part of EnteraLoc’s enternal feeding pouch, receives four gold awards in packaging excellence, sustainability, technical innovation, and expanding the use of flexible packaging, from Flexible Packaging Association.

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The Highest Achievement Award is evaluated by the judges as possessing overall packaging excellence, significant attributes in all award categories, and contributing most to the advancement of the industry. The winner this year was the EnteraLoc™ enteral device. Designed for tube-fed patients, the EnteraLoc is an innovative 510(k) FDA-approved enteral device—a flexible spouted pouch with…

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