Founded in Cleveland in 1989 by Mike Maczuzak, SmartShape Design is an industrial design firm that has grown into an integrated product-development partner. The company works with established and emerging brands to carry ideas from research through production, with a particular strength in products whose physical form, engineering, and user experience must work together.
CAM TOOL & ENGINEERING INCIn Cleveland, CAM Tool & Engineering turns product designs into injection molds, dies, and machined parts, carrying projects from screen to finished component. The company has supplied specialized products since 2000 and brings more than 40 years of mold-making and machining experience to its full-service work. Its designers use the same software across the tool build to help create molds that run smoothly and allow for quick changes.NORTH ROYALTON, OH
Columbus Design & Manufacturing, LLCStarted in 2013 by two friends with decades of manufacturing experience, Columbus Design & Manufacturing is a small Columbus, Ohio company built around making U.S. custom manufacturing more accessible. It helps established brands, startups, and inventors turn ideas into products, combining design support with production and fulfillment in one operation.COLUMBUS, OH
Buckeye ShapeformWith more than 112 years of American manufacturing history, Buckeye Shapeform is a Columbus, Ohio, company known for turning demanding customer designs into made-to-order electronic housings. Its in-house team works from prototypes through finished production for customers in fields such as aerospace, medical equipment, and telecommunications, with deep-draw work reaching form ratios up to 20:1.COLUMBUS, OH
David Wolfe DesignEstablished in 1985 as a plastic injection-mold design firm, David Wolfe Design has grown into an Akron operation that helps plastics and tooling companies turn early concepts into workable parts. Its particular strength is supporting complicated, low-volume projects that larger commodity molders may pass over, with design and manufacturing carried out through a vertically integrated operation.AKRON, OH