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Each acquisition was chosen to close a specific gap rather than simply add revenue. Wisconsin Plastic Products, based in Plymouth, brought wide-format profile extrusion and the ability to run profiles up to 30 inches in width, including glass-reinforced and metal-embedded materials – a capability Jacob describes as“ a genuine technical advantage and a competitive moat” given the difficulty of replicating the tooling, vacuum calibration, and process control involved. It also closed a physical gap, enabling Pexco to move into the Midwest and complement its established coastal and Southeast presence. Connecticut Plastics, meanwhile, added precision machining, allowing the firm to support customers from low-volume prototyping through to high-volume injectionmolded production as their needs expand.
However, not every acquisition gets absorbed into the Pexco brand. Precise Aerospace, manufacturing in Yorba Linda since 1965, deliberately retains its own identity. Its AS9100 and ITAR credentials, and customer-specific process qualifications with the likes of Boeing and Honeywell, represent decades of earned trust that could be damaged by rebranding.“ We integrated everything except the brand,” he says – capital, engineering depth, and access to both Pexco’ s wider material capability and broader product range. It’ s a model Jacob summarizes simply:“ A separate front door, with a shared engine room.”
Pexco’ s technical edge extends well beyond wide-format extrusion. The company is one of the few injection molders able to efficiently produce FEP, PFA, HP PFA, and UHP PFA parts that meet highpurity requirements, tight tolerances, and complex geometries. And Pexco and Precise Aerospace recently qualified as two of the few Torlon ® PAI by Syensqo molders in the United States.
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