Universal Plastics Featured on MassLive

July 14, 2008

Universal Plastics, currently located in Holyoke, MA, has been refining and developing thermoformed products since 1965. Tortus has been proud to grow alongside Universal Plastics since creating their first website in 2000. The current Universal Plastics website allows visitors to review a robust product catalog featuring custom pressure formed items, as well as request a design guide or DVD. Recently, the plastics powerhouse was featured on masslive.com due to a brand new 30,000 square foot addition that was built to keep up with the ever-growing demand for their products.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

"Everything is custom-made," said company president Joseph L. Peters.

Thanks to the additional space, he said the company no longer has to shuttle back and forth between its factory and storage space several miles away in the downtown Open Square.

"That was pretty much the main thrust behind the whole thing," Peters said, referring to the addition. "We're more efficient."

The addition did not result in new jobs at the company, which employs 75 people. But Peters estimated that having the entire business under one roof will save the company between 15 and 20 percent on operating costs.

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