C&J Industries - Injection Molding History
C&J Industries began in 1962 when two young toolmakers, Dick Johnston and Harold Corner, started a small tooling company named Meadville Precision Tool and Mold. They quickly gained notoriety for building high-precision plastic injection molding components and quality injection molds for companies such as AMP, Western Electric and Packard Electric.
In the early 1970s (this is the stuff of legend)-one of our customers commented that they were very pleased with the injection molds that we produced, however, they wanted us to qualify the tools prior to shipment. We responded, "But how can we qualify the molds-we don't have any plastic injection molding presses?" Shortly thereafter a truck arrived at our loading dock and the truck driver had us sign for two slightly used injection molding presses. We were now in the plastic injection molding business.
Our business grew quickly in the 1980s as we expanded into the medical and business machine markets. With the company's growth came a new name, "C&J Industries, Inc." In 1982, we became an FDA registered medical device manufacturer and began producing medical injection molded components and complete medical devices.
In 1990, Dick Johnston bought out his partner and the company became an employee stock ownership plan company (ESOP.) In 1994, C&J Industries became the first plastic injection molding company to receive ISO 9001 from Underwriters Laboratories.
Throughout the 1990s, C&J Industries expanded significantly and began to offer Product Design and Development services to our customers. The Honeywell whole-room air purifier was our very first product design that went to market in the mid-90s. In 1998, Lucent Technologies selected C&J Industries as their primary North American FOA contract manufacturing company.
From 2002 through 2009, C&J Industries invested heavily in facility upgrades and technology improvements. Clean room expansions, automation services and upgrades to our quality systems (ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2008) were evidence of our commitment to the highest quality standards.
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760 Water Street Meadville, PA 16335 USA | Phone: 814-724-4950
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