Injection Mold Company Tennessee Plastic Injection Molds Manufacturer OEM Auto Parts Supplier, Chemical Manufacturing, Food Production, Machinery, Pharmaceuticals, Tennessee Valley, Knoxville, Clarksville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville, Franklin

Injection Mold Company for Tennessee

BMJ Mold and Engineering, a plastic injection mold company in Kokomo, Indiana, can build high quality molds for Tennessee manufacturers, such as:

• A transmission switch cover for an OEM auto parts supplier in Memphis
• A shipping cover for a machinery manufacturer in Chattanooga
• A pill inspection tray for a Nashville pharmaceuticals manufacturer
• A gallon-size container for a dairy in Clarksville
• A microwavable package for a national frozen food distributor in Knoxville

We provide injection mold maintenance and repair, as well as state-of-the-art tooling and machining services, to help reduce down-time and keep Tennessee's manufacturing companies operating efficiently.

Tennessee: The Delivery Hub of the Country

Tennessee is very proactive in its support of business and industrial development. A wide variety of manufacturing industries are located throughout the area.

The Tennessee Valley region offers all the right elements for successful distribution operations:

• Great transportation infrastructure
• Ample workforce
• A thriving business climate
• Reasonable operating costs

The Tennessee Valley is located right in the middle of America’s breadbasket. In fact, manufacturers in the Valley are leading national producers of many food items.

• West Tennessee features a large distribution and warehousing industry

  • The area outside Memphis is oriented toward manufacturing

  • The plastics, automotive supplier, and food processing sectors also have a strong presence

  • Memphis is home to Federal Express, world leader for time-sensitive deliveries

  • Many manufacturers have relocated to the Memphis area due to the availability of later overnight delivery deadlines
     

• Middle Tennessee has the largest and most diversified economy in the Valley. The area has drawn several major manufacturers, including:

  • Bridgestone-Firestone

  • Lousiana-Pacific

  • Caremark Corporation

  • And many other corporate headquarters
     

• The Northeast Valley area includes medical technologies, a broad range of manufacturers, corporate headquarters, and distribution centers

Tennessee's top manufacturing industries (see sidebar) rely heavily on injection molding for the vital plastic parts needed to:

• Turn on a car radio
• Measure, test or safely store a chemical
• Design a new computer mouse, or
• Supply a dairy with packaging for their food products

And every one of those parts, packages and components required an injection mold.

Let BMJ be your plastic injection mold company. Our premium extended warranty program will give you peace-of-mind because the molds designed and built by BMJ are guaranteed to retain their integrity throughout a specific number of cycles.

Plastic Injection Mold Company for Tennessee's Motor Vehicle Industry

BMJ Mold and Engineering has been serving the automotive industry since our very beginning, nearly 40 years ago. As a result, we are well versed and experienced with PPAP, the production part approval process, and the intricacies and requirements involved.

While most people think of Detroit as "Motor City," Tennessee is home to 5 auto manufacturing-related facilities, 55 body and trailer manufacturers and 191 auto parts providers. In fact, the Tennessee Valley is the second-largest automobile manufacturing region in the country, with approximately 90,000 automotive industry jobs. Additionally:

• The region is home to four major automotive OEMs
• More than 3,000 automotive suppliers are in the region, including the top 10 in North America
• The new headquarters of Nissan North America is in Franklin, Tennessee, outside Nashville

Injection molded plastic parts are used extensively throughout  automobile construction, from the interior and exterior, to the fuel and under-hood systems.

• High volume, economical stack molds produce thousands of parts quickly, such as radio knobs or buttons, lenses and seals
   
• Two-shot molds produce plastic parts with permanent colored logos or text in a single molding process, including instrument dials, back-plates and gas caps
   
• Hot runner molds use 100% virgin materials to create parts with a "high polish" cosmetic finish for visible decorative components like speaker grilles or dashboard assemblies

For more examples of the many applications for injection molded plastic parts for Ohio's motor vehicle industry, read Automotive Industry.
 

Plastic Injection Mold Company for Tennessee's Food & Beverage Industry

Food production ranks a close 2nd to to the automotive industry in Tennessee manufacturing, with a total GSP of $5 Billion. Major food manufactures with facilities in Tennessee include:

Perdue Farms Tyson Foods Proctor & Gamble Sara Lee

Pilgrim's Pride Kellogg Hershey Con Agra

Products needed for food packaging are relatively small and of varied design requirements.  High quality molds are the key to efficiency, productivity and economy.

• BMJ Mold and Engineering provides the designers, engineers and craftsmen to complete any mold project to the strict specifications and requirements of food packaging manufacturers
   
• Particularly useful to manufacture food packaging, stack molds are easily and quickly installed and replaced into frames, for fast and efficient product changes, ideal for producing a wide variety of food packaging shapes and sizes.

Read more: Food Packaging

Injection Mold Company for Tennessee's Chemical and Petroleum Manufacturing Industries

Tennessee's third largest manufacturing industry is in the chemical and petroleum sector. Chemical manufacturing is based on the transformation of organic and inorganic raw materials by a chemical process and the formulation of products, including:

More than 275 chemical manufacturers reside in Tennessee, employing more than 65,000 people.

Additionally, the petroleum and coal products industry, a sub-sector of the chemicals manufacturing industry, based on the transformation of crude petroleum and coal into usable products, employs more than 1,100 people in more than 55 locations.

The wide variety of types and grades of plastic resins available, each with specific properties and applications, makes injection molded plastic ideal for a variety of applications needing high chemical resistance and/or operating temperatures up to 300°F, such as:

BMJ's mold building technologies include high speed CNC milling and EDM  machining to create 3-D geometry in hardened steel and other metals like brass, copper and aluminum. Many chemical manufacturers utilize our services for rapid prototype and packaging development.

BMJ: The Injection Mold Company for Tennessee Manufacturing

BMJ has built high quality molds for Tennessee businesses in these, and many other, manufacturing industries.

• Our skilled craftsmen are capable of constructing high-quality, intricate and efficient injection molds quickly, whether simple single cavity, or complex multi-cavity, molds
   
• All of our tooling is engineered using high-quality mold bases and selected tool steels for moving parts and cavity inserts.

For more details about the businesses we serve and the types of parts that can be manufactured from the molds we build, go to Industries Served.

(Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce Bureaus of Labor Statistics / Economic Analysis, TN Dept of Economic & Community Development, Research & Planning Division)
 

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A variety of plastic compounds were used, based on the function of each part, to make the five separately molded parts for this SUV power distribution box.

This radio push button was manufactured from an 8 + 8 two-shot mold to allow for multiple colors or grades of material in one part

This shipping cover, molded from 10% calcium carbonate polypropylene for durability, protects machinery subassembly against damage, scuffing, scratching during shipping