C & E Plastics Acquires Allegheny Plastics Manufacturing
11/07/2007 - Clifford D. Crighton, President and CEO of C & E Plastics, purchases all plant equipment and other assets of former competitor Allegheny Plastics Manufacturing.
Clifford D. Crighton, President and CEO of C & E Plastics, Inc, has purchased all plant equipment and other assets of former competitor Allegheny Plastics Manufacturing.
The Allegheny acquisition was completed in September in a private transaction with KMA Manufacturing following negotiations that began in March. In August, construction of a new factory was completed at the 11-acre Georgetown site. The acquired assets, including butt-welding and bending machines, CNC-routing machine, multiple ovens and fixtures for thermoforming sheets and Teflon tubing for steam spargers, have since been moved in to compliment C&E Plastics’ multi-shift operations there.
“Along with our proven design expertise, we offer a designated manufacturing capacity not available with any other supplier,” said Crighton. “Our new factory has more than tripled our Plastic manufacturing space. Our recent acquisitions include more computerized butt-welding and bending machines, a CNC-routing machine, and multiple ovens and fixtures for thermoforming sheets and Teflon tubing for Steam Spargers. All this is combined with our in-house machining and steel fabricating capabilities.”
“We are now uniquely poised to serve our customer base as a single-source supplier of plastic process equipment,” added Operations Manager Jerry Hayostek. “From conceptual design and engineering, to manufacturing, to installation and field service, we offer our customers a full array of expertise to solve their plastic equipment needs anytime, anywhere.”
A number of former Allegheny employees have also joined the company, including Tom Wilding, who was hired lastNovember as Technical Sales Director, and Allegheny’s General Manager, Ron Castelli who accepted the position of Plant Manager in July. Since the acquisition, other key manufacturing and field service technical personnel have also joined the Georgetown ranks, adding many years of collective expertise to what was already a broadly experienced staff.
For this long-established world-class supplier of custom-engineered thermoplastic process equipment for metal finishing, the acquisition reinforces the company’s leading position as one of the largest and most-experienced manufacturers of custom plastic process equipment in the domestic industry.
C & E Plastics was established in 1976 by Clifford Crighton Sr. The company began supplying plastic process equipment to the domestic strip and batch metal-finishing industries, focusing mainly on single-unit replacement projects. The company incorporated in 1992 with Clifford D. Crighton as President. Since then, the company has enjoyed a steady growth in a worldwide market, supplying a wide range of custom-engineered equipment including tanks, covers, liners, piping, secondary containments, ductwork and fume abatement systems.
The company has supplied entire wet section replacements for pickle line equipment at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works and Arcelor Mittal’s Weirton facility, and has installed new pickle tanks with actuated covers through Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery USA, Inc. for Union Steel in Korea, among others. Their project experience includes applications in continuous and push/pull strip lines, long products, galvanizing, wire, aerospace, copper/brass and exotic metals.
