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Pleasant Precision, Inc. was founded in 1976 by Ron and Carol Pleasant. Ron first began his career as an apprentice for Kenton Tool & Die in 1969. During his 8 years with Kenton Tool & Die, Ron gained valuable experience in building precision molds and injection molding plastic parts. Ron then used his skilled craftsmanship to build PPI, a family-owned and operated business.
Over the years PPI has advanced to a state-of-the-art mold making and molding facility and has developed a staff of talented mold designers, machinists, tool makers and processors. Our equipment and staff coupled with our many years of experience and reputation for quality, account for our company’s continuous growth.
Today, Team PPI is full service solutions provider, offering turn key custom manufacturing solutions, close-tolerance injection molds, quality plastic, metal and rubber components and manufacturing our proprietary product line, RoundMate®. We are proud to be considered a world class moldmaking, molding, design and product development facility.
1976 - Ron and Carol Pleasant founded Pleasant Precision, Inc. in Kenton, Ohio operating with one employee in their garage.
1978 - PPI moved into its first facility, 5,400 sq. ft. converted chicken hatchery, in Bell Center, Ohio.
1985 - PPI expanded beyond their capacity and moved into a 12,500 square foot facility in Huntsville, Ohio
1987 - Ron Pleasant invented and patented the Round Mate System, the first Round Interchangeable Insert Molding System.
1994 - PPI established their molding facilities and began manufacturing parts for companies such as Eveready Battery and Sheaffer Pen.
1996 - Pleasant Precision, Inc. made a final move back to home base, a 54,000 square foot facility in Kenton, Ohio.
1998 - Pleasant Precision, Inc. entered into a partnership with Filtrum of India and corporately became known as Team PPI.
2003 - PPI developed a mobile Class 10,000 clean room to manufacture small precision medical components.2008 - PPI developed a dedicated Class 100,000 clean room operational with five injection molding machines to produce high volume medical components.
2008 - Team PPI’s moldmaking division got a complete overhaul by implementing Lean Manufacturing in a job shop environment. We rearranged our shop floor in to work cells to improve product flow and lower cost and lead times to our customers.
2009 - PPI developed RoundMate® Liquid Silicone Molding Technology and purchased first LSR injection molding machine.