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Market · Injection moulding

The United States injection moulding market

An import market by default. The machines are bought from abroad, and the only open question for a maker is whose machine arrives.

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Injection moulding press mid-cycle, clamp closed, machine lit from above.
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An import market by default

The United States has 9,636 plastics product manufacturing establishments. American buyers imported 6,728 injection moulding machines in a single year, counted in units.

That second figure is the whole argument. The machines are bought from abroad already. The only open question for a maker is whose machine arrives.

9,636US plastics establishments
6,728machines imported in a year
5,546in the custom moulding class
517in Michigan alone

US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 3261. Census trade data, HS 847710, partner World.

The bar is set at
the representative.

Four of the makers we surveyed publish what they want from a US agent, which is more than any other equipment category we have examined.

What those makers actually ask for

Unusually honest, and it tells a maker entering the United States something useful. A builder with a competitive machine and no channel is in the same position as a builder with no machine.

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Moulded parts on a conveyor leaving the press, motion blur.
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The concentration follows automotive

Michigan alone holds 517 plastics establishments, 5.4 per cent of the national count, and the clustering tracks vehicle production rather than population.

Plastics products
9,636
All other plastics
5,546
Vehicle parts
4,659
Michigan
517

A manufacturer appointing representation by population is appointing against the wrong map.

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Why the channel is the hard part

Representation is uneven by state, territories are handed out on a handshake and reviewed when something goes wrong, and no maker publishes where its own network is thin. We hold that map. Which states sit open, and at which maker, is the first thing we put on the table in a conversation.

If America is still a guess, we should talk.

Vommuli Ventures is the demand infrastructure for industrial equipment in America. Manufacturers plug into it to reach every American buyer for their machines.

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