Modern Plastics

Employee size

11-50

Headquarters

Dayton, OH

Founded in Bridgeport in 1945 as a one-man auto-glass shop, Modern Plastics now distributes high-performance plastics and produces custom-fabricated and machined plastic parts from its Shelton headquarters. Its medical plastics division is a particular specialty, including lot-controlled materials and authorized North American distribution of Evonik’s VESTAKEEP implantable PEEK. The company was the first plastics distributor in the United States to earn ISO 13485 certification and maintains ISO 9001, AS9100D and AS9120B certifications alongside detailed barcode-based material traceability.

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