Started by 24-year-old James Powers Jr. on the porch of his Cincinnati home in the early 1980s, Queen City Polymers has grown into a family-built plastics manufacturer and distributor serving North America since 1980. Headquartered in Cincinnati with plants in Dayton, Pharr and Reynosa, QCP supplies industrial plastic stock and turns it into custom-cut, machined and fabricated parts, with 17 CNC routers and six CNC panel saws supporting high-volume work. Its reach has expanded, but the company says its front-porch loyalty to customers and employees remains central to how it operates.
Profile Plastics, IncSince its founding in Hartville in 1993, family-owned Profile Plastics has made custom plastic profiles for manufacturers from its Canton, Ohio plant. Its 85,000-square-foot facility runs nine extrusion lines, while a team with more than 200 years of combined extrusion experience tackles parts ranging from straightforward tubes to complex, tight-tolerance profiles. Profile also supports customers from early design and material selection through tooling, fabrication, assembly and packaging, with two-thirds of its customers returning for more than a decade.CANTON, OH
World Class Plastics, IncVeteran-owned and operated since its 1994 founding, World Class Plastics grew from a single press in Lakeview into a Russells Point manufacturer with 28 presses and more than 84,000 square feet of space. Its owners emphasize personal customer service, training, and process control while building long-term relationships with customers that need custom plastic parts. The company’s quality system is certified to ISO 9001:2015.RUSSELLS POINT, OH
Recto Molded ProductsEstablished in downtown Cincinnati in 1919 as one of the first U.S. plastics processors, Recto Molded Products now makes custom injection-molded plastic parts and assemblies. Its in-house tool room, engineering staff, and automation work support orders ranging from as few as five parts a year to millions, while the company continues to maintain molds that have been in production for more than 50 years. Recto has also cut its facility’s electricity use in half and gas use by 90% since 2005 through practical energy improvements.CINCINNATI, OH
Precision Polymers Inc. (PPI)Founded in 1994 by industry veterans Robert Shepard and Walter Brown, Erie-based Precision Polymers Inc. makes custom plastic components through injection molding and builds the tooling used to produce them. PPI stands out for its start-to-finish operation, with an on-site tool room and support extending from design and molding through assembly, warehousing, and shipping. The company handles both small sample runs and high-volume production and has more than 30 years of mold-building experience.ERIE, PA