Mack Prototype – Gardner, Massachusetts
The Company
Mack Prototype headquartered in Gardner, Massachusetts is part of the Mack Group, a privately held, full-service contract manufacturer founded in 1920. Mack Group is debt free and holds a 5A1D&B rating. Mack Prototype specializes in complex prototyping and low-volume production
with experience in additive manufacturing, cast urethane molding, CNC machining, injection molding and new product introduction. Mack Prototype can take programs through the full development lifecycle.
Mack Prototype has over 25 years working to produce prototypes and production parts. Their manufacturing technologies and services are located in-house, under one roof, to provide one source and point of contact for critical prototyping and low volume production needs with a range of services including 3D Printing with carbon CLIP, FDM, SLA and HP multi jet fusion, cast urethane molding, plastic injection molding, CNC machining, finishing, painting and assembly. Mack Prototype offers the best manufacturing solution to meet a project’s budget, timeline, quantity, material, and quality requirements.
As a part of Mack Group, Mack Prototype has the resources and internal network available to rapidly scale any project from prototype into production. When prototypes are complete, projects can transition to one of Mack’s vertically integrated network of production facilities reducing product development time to market from prototype to production, all with one company. Mack’s family of companies offer fully engineered, high volume contract manufactured product assemblies complete with all electronic, sheet metal, machined, molded, and purchased components with full program management support.
Mack Prototype is an ISO 13485 medically certified production manufacturer with FDA, UL and ITAR registrations, with a long history of taking on challenging projects and requirements for Consumer, Defense, Energy, Industrial, Medical, and Robotic industries.
History
The history of Mack starts in the early days of plastics back in Thomas Edison’s labs. In the early 1900s, Donald S. Kendall was working as a chemist for the Thomas Edison Cos. in New Jersey. While trying to find a good replacement for the wax used in phonograph records, he led experiments with recently invented thermoset resins know as urea and Bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components.
Intrigued by the commercial potential for these new materials, in 1920, Kendall joined forces with Kenneth W. Macksey to co-found Mack Molding Co. in Little Falls, New Jersey, with three rebuilt injection presses. It was there that Mack made the world’s first ever plastic part used in a commercial product for the Otis Elevator Company. In 1929,Mack expanded by buying a DuPont plant in Wayne, New Jersey, and then a decade later moved to a larger plant in Arlington, Vermont. True to Kendall’s original vision, Mack mostly made bottle caps until World War II. To serve the war effort, Mack switched much of its production to mortar-shell casings and related products. After the war, the company began molding automotive and refrigerator components for General Motors Corp and its Frigidaire subsidiary. One of its first products for GM was the Indian head logo that adorned the front of all Pontiacs. Mack molded the formerly metal figure from yellow acrylic.
In 1960, the Kendall’s bought out their partners and diversified into consumer products such as Timex watch boxes and Schick razor handles. In 1974, management of the company passed on to Donald S. Kendall III, the founder’s grandson, and current Mack CEO. Annual sales totaled about $4 million.
Then IBM asked Mack to make a plastic computer monitor housing. That launched the company into the computer & business equipment industry, which is still one of its primary markets, along with medical, industrial, transportation, energy/environment and consumer.
Today, Mack has earned a 5A1 D&B rating, the highest available. The corporation has no long-term debt and finances its own acquisitions and growth. Mack has sales of approximately $500 million and employs more than 2,000 people at over 1.5 million square feet of facilities.
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The Area
Mack Prototype is in Gardner, Massachusetts about an hour west of Boston which is easily accessed by car or nearby commuter rail. Worcester, the state’s second largest city is around 20 minutes to the south.
Gardner is a city of around 21,000 located in North Central Massachusetts on Route 2,one of the main east-west highways crossing the state. Historically it has been known as a major chair and furniture manufacturing area, but these industries have given way to more technologically oriented industries. The real estate market is reasonable, especially when compared to Boston and its suburbs. With its proximity to New Hampshire, many elect to make their residence there.
For further regional information, visit the followingsite: City of Gardner
Schools.
· Information on Gardner Public Schools.
· Information on local private schools.
Shopping and other items of interests
· Boston area.
Transportation
· Located on major divided highway – Route 2.
· Regional airport located in Worcester, MA about 30 minutes away.
· Major international airport in Boston about 1 hour away.
· Close to commuter rail with frequent service to Boston.
Real Estate.
· Real estate in the Gardner area.