IVP Plastics of Missouri

Founded in 1953 as Sunbeam Plastics, Rexam Closures & Containers, a subsidary of The Rexam Group, designs, engineers, manufactures and markets a wide variety of packaging solutions. The company s products include beverage packaging in metal, glass and plastic, and plastic packaging solutions for the beauty, health care, pharmaceutical and food industries worldwide. The company s produces in excess of 50 billion cans and approximately 7 billion glass containers each year for the beverage industry. Its beauty industry products include lipstick cases, compacts, dispensing systems for perfumes and lotions and closures for fragrances. In the pharmaceutical and health care areas, the company produces plastic containers and closures, as well as glass bottles and vials. Redam also manufactures intricate delivery systems for asthma inhalers and eye drop dispensers and nasal sprays. The company s food packaging products include plastic tubs and trays and glass jars. Rexam Closures & Containers has operations in Princton, and Evansville, Ind., and Union, Mo.

Tapco is one of the largest manufacturers of elevator buckets in the United States. Its products include agricultural buckets, fabricated steel buckets, industrial buckets, continuous fabricated buckets, elevator bolts, nuts, belt splices, abrasion resistant sheeting, and drag flights and hangar bearings. The company has an inventory of approximately 600,000 buckets and 11 million bolts. The company's most popular agricultural bucket is the solid polyethylene CC-HD style. Other materials include nylon, urethane, steel, ductile iron and aluminum. Its 74,000-square-foot facility houses six injection molding machines ranging from a small 170-ton press to a very large 1,000-ton press. Tapco was established in 1974 and maintains headquarters in the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, Mo.

ACI Plastics is a distributor and fabricator of plastic sheet, rod, tube and slab serving North America for more than 30 years. The company s sheet product line includes acrylic, polycarbonate, expanded and solid PVC, high-density polyethylene and polypropylene. Some of its capabilities include prototyping and design, CNC machining, fabrication and assembly, screen-printing, injection molding, extrusion and packaging. The firm is affiliated with the Institute of Store Planners, International Association of Plastic Distributors and Awards & Recognition Association. ACI Plastics has headquarters in St. Louis and sales locations in Little Rock, Ark., Peoria, Ill., Kansas City, Mo. and St. Louis.