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Financial owner buys thermoformer, injection molder Wilbert Plastic Services Don Loepp and Sarah Kominek Plastics News Staff Wilbert Plastic Services Inc. has thermoforming, injection molding and assembling at its U.S. operations. Wilbert Plastic Services Inc., a major injection molder and industrial thermoformer, has a new financial owner. Alleghany Capital Corp., a subsidiary of publicly traded investment company Alleghany Corp., has acquired Belmont, N.C.-based WPS under a new subsidiary, Piedmont Manufacturing Group LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. WPS had been privately held by...

Bessemer auto supplier plans $8 million expansion, to hire 75 Updated 3:05 PM; It is the auto supplier’s second facility in the Birmingham area, in addition to Leeds. EPC is a provider of thermoplastics and thermoset products for automotive, appliances, consumer products and medical industries, including automotive instrument panels and medical products such as test tube holders. EPC acquired the second facility from INOAC in last September and plans to add 10 injection molding machines, ranging in size from 200 tons to 3,000 tons. Reza Kargarzadeh, president and CEO of EPC, said Alabama ...