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Centro Receives CARB Certification
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North Liberty, IA (November 2, 2006) Centro, Inc., the largest custom rotational molder in North America, has recently received three Executive Orders from the state of California concerning reduced fuel permeation requirements that are expected to go into effect there in 2008.
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Centro Doubles North Carolina Plant
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North Liberty, IA (June 14, 2005) North Liberty, IA - Centro Incorporated, the largest custom rotational molder in North America, has
invested over $2.5 million in its Claremont, North Carolina plant by adding 30 new jobs and more than
50,000 square feet of manufacturing space. The addition doubles the existing size of the plant to over
100,000 square feet and brings the total number of people employed at the North Carolina facility to
200. This expansion is phase 2 of the original 3-phase site plan that was proposed when the facility was
established in 1999.
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Rotomolders Hear
New Ways To Make Better Parts, Cut Costs at Fall ARM Conference
(Plastics Technology Magazine)
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A process that polymerizes liquid caprolactam in the mold has been brought to
the U.S. by rotomolder Centro Inc., based in North Liberty, Iowa. Called
Rotomolded Anionic Polymerization, or RAP, the process is claimed to offer cost
savings relative to using standard nylon 6 resin. Centro developed the process
with several other European companies. RAP has been used in Europe for several
years to make fuel tanks, but Centro worked with several U.S. and European
companies to improve the safety and productivity of the process.
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Manufacturing innovations helping E. Iowa company expand its market
(The Gazette)
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North Liberty, IA (October 31, 2004) Centro Inc., the fourth-largest rotational molding company in
the North America, is installing a European technology known
as rotomolded anionic polymerization or RAP at its
headquarters plant. The multimillion-dollar investment will
enable Centro to produce parts in less time and with a "Class
A" surface that can be painted and used at higher operating
temperatures.
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Centro Filling Niche With New Technology
(Corridor Business Journal)
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North
Liberty, IA (October 11, 2004) Centro Inc., the North Liberty
custom rotational molder, is in the midst of installing a new
high-tech process to its main manufacturing facility, which will
enable the business to produce Nylon 6 products more efficiently and
cost-effectively. Nylon 6 products are commonly used for chemical
storage tanks, surge tanks and hydraulic tanks, among other things.
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Centro Imports ‘RAP’ for Market Niche |
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North Liberty, IA (July 23, 2004) Centro Incorporated, the largest
custom rotational molder in North America is bringing a high tech
process to their main manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters
in North Liberty, Iowa. This technology, known as Rotomolded Anionic
Polymerization (RAP) will provide a more cost effective means to rotationally
mold Nylon 6 products. The multi-million dollar investment will be
fully operational by January 2005.
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News
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August 11, 2003
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Centro,
Inc. ranks among North America's top Rotational Molders!
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Centro,
Inc. headquartered in North Liberty, Iowa ranks #5 among all rotational
molders of plastic products in North America according to a dollar-based
ranking published August 11, 2003 in Plastics
News. Plastics News ranked
all rotational molders. Centro is the largest rotational molder in
the rankings that serves strictly custom markets.
Centro has manufacturing facilities in North Liberty, Iowa, Horicon,
Wisconsin, Claremont, North Carolina, Ankeny, Iowa, and Valley City,
North Dakota.
Rotomolding is a small but fast-growing segment of a plastics product
manufacturing industry that generates total U.S. shipments valued
at well in excess of $151 billion a year.
The rotational molding process involves filling a mold with a measured
amount of powder or liquid resin, closing the mold halves, placing
the molds in a heated oven, and rotating them biaxially. During heating,
the resin melts, fuses and densifies into the shape of the mold cavity.
The molds then are cooled and opened, yielding hollow, seamless parts
of all shapes and sizes. Rotomolding products range from storage tanks
and highway safety barrels to sporting goods, complex-shaped toys,
playground equipment, and various industrial and consumer products.
This is the ninth annual ranking of rotational molding companies by
Plastics
News,
an Akron, Ohio-based weekly newspaper that reports on the business
of the plastics industry.
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Plastics
News, August 5, 2002, Special Report:
Centro keeps testing the limits
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Centro
was featured in a special report in Plastics
News telling
the history of Centro from founder Dick Rozek's vision and determination
for a plastics company in 1970, to overcoming a 1996 fire which destroyed
the original manufacturing plant in Oxford, Iowa, to the integrity
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