Omega Plastics acquires Vinylex Corp.

Clare Goldsberry | Oct 20, 2014

"We continued to grow through the recession, and the merger of Omega Plastics with Vinylex Corporation will allow the company to continue expanding the market for profile extrusion in North America," Redwine added.

Vinylex has been a leader in the custom profile market since 1952, and was a pioneer in bringing plastic profile extrusion to Tennessee, said Omega's release. The company achieved ISO 9001-2008 certification in 1995, and extrudes both custom and proprietary products in a wide range of materials including rigid/flexible PVC, ABS, Nylon, PE, PP, HIPS, CPPPVC as well as other engineered thermoplastic materials.

"The addition of Vinylex talent, experience, resources and capabilities are essential to our long range growth plan in North America," commented Ricardo Merino, DVP's CEO. "The market in North America offers tremendous opportunity for our products, including extrusion and injection molding. We will continue aggressive growth organically with good people and products, as well as other potential acquisitions of plastics related processors."

Through the acquisition, the company will increase both manufacturing space and capacity, with facilities in strategic Tennessee and Texas locations. The combined footprint of North American facilities exceed 285,000 sq-ft, and include rail service to the sites, silo storage for raw materials, and compounding capabilities at each location. Coupled with a strong international manufacturing presence in South America, the organization is well positioned to supply customers with multiple manufacturing locations across the globe.

"With complete extrusion die and fabrication tool building capabilities at each facility, including DVP in Santiago, the company is well equipped to continue aggressive growth in the North and South American markets," said Herb Hutchison, VP of sales and business development at Omega.

Since 1978, Omega Plastics has been manufacturing made-to-order solutions with thermoplastic custom profile extrusion and a proprietary random loop vinyl mesh sheet used for mats, product protection and other applications. Capabilities include single, dual and triple durometer custom profile extrusion in a variety of different thermoplastic materials. Additional capabilities include both Celuka and free foam extrusion, and complete tooling construction and development.

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