Electra Form Industries

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Electra Form Industries
Founded 1993
Headquarters Vandalia, USA
Website www.electraform.com

Company Profile

Electra Form Industries (EFI) is a PET preform specialist headquartered in Vandalia, Ohio, USA and was founded in 1978 to provide PET preform tooling and technical services to packaging converters. Today, the company offers preforms, tooling and container development services to their customers.

EFI controls product quality and timely supply by reducing their reliance on outside suppliers for key material components (especially tooling), leading to decreased waste, increased quality control, reliable on-time deliveries and competitive prices.


The company serves the following markets:

  • National & International Packaging Converters
  • Regional Bottle Blow & Fill Operations
  • Self-Manufacturing Brands
  • Dairy
  • Other specialty markets

The benefits EFI has to offer:

  • Flexibility by manufacturing for all machine platforms including Husky, Niigon/Athena, Milacron, Netstal, Krauss Maffei and Sumotomo. “True mold builder” allows EFI customers spec tooling to run in multiple machine platforms
  • Paired hot runners and end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) for each design
  • Precision by using shrink libraries and experienced engineers to hit target weights
  • Replacement parts available for EFI or non-EFI systems
  • Guaranteed to hit dimensions and weights

EFI‘s products are made of top quality raw materials that are provided by world leaders of the chemical industry and are micro-biologically tested on a regular basis by accredited laboratories. They are also subject to periodical global migration tests and heavy metal content tests.

Products / Technology

  • Preforms
  • PET Preform Molds
  • Prototype “Modular” Stacks
  • Hot Runner Systems
  • End-of-Arm take out systems

Services

  • Design and prototyping
  • Cold half refurbishments with factory qualification
  • Cold half conversions with factory qualification
  • Hot runner refurbishments
  • End-of-Arm Tooling (EOAT) refurbishments
  • Alterations / Tooling repair
  • Modular prototyping tooling and pilot preform production
  • Sidel SB01 in-house to provide finished bottles and accelerate customers design cycle

History

References

PETplanet Insider Articles

Issue 07 / 2019: Flexibility is the key
Issue 10 / 2015: Preforms only

External links

Electra Form Industries Website