On-Site By Tony Deligio Senior Editor Medical Components of America • Seguin, Texas Lights Out, Pristine Production In The numbers beggar belief and the business belies description— Medical Components of America has 10 employees, six injection machines and lights-out production that’s gone ve years without shipping a bad part or missing a delivery. Pretty soon after beginning to ll out Plastics Technology ’s Top Shops benchmarking question-naire, Chris Morton pushed back from his computer. “When I started through the survey metrics, there were some I wouldn’t share, and if I did share some of them, you’d think I was lying,” Morton says. He is the founder and CEO of Medical Components of America ( medicalcompofamerica.com ), an injection molding company he started from scratch with every aspect of its business built with singular purpose and intention. Morton has spent four decades in plastics and injection molding, starting out in his father’s tool shop when he was in college, with stints running smaller companies along the way and time heading up much larger operations. He spent a decade at the global contract manufacturer Flex, leaving as the v.p. of Global Mechanicals; and before starting Medical Components of America, he was COO for Medplast. For 80 to 100 hr/ week, Medical Components of America runs with no one in the building. 36 Plastics Technology NOVEMBER PTonline.com
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