Positioned to support your needs now, and in the future

Antigo High School Career Fair 11/16/2023

Company Background

• Started as Hart Tool & Eng. 1976
• Nicolet Plastics, Inc. founded in 1985 in Mountain, WI
• Nicolet Plastics, Inc. became Nicolet Plastics, LLC in March 2017
• Nicolet Plastics LLC acquired second manufacturing facility Jackson, WI in September 2018
• Nicolet Plastics LLC purchased facility in Ripon, WI 2021

About our Nicolet Plastics Team

• Our average age is 42 (Range of 18 to 75)
• We have a successful CESA 8 Youth Apprenticeship Program
• We employ 1 full time college student (UW- Stout)
• Of our 113 team members, 9 are part time or on call
• We are 7% people of color
• We are 40% Female & 60% Male
• Our average wage is $28.18 per hour

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Manufacturing Facilities

• We have three manufacturing Facilities
• Mountain, WI
• In Mountain, we produce parts in smaller quantities with a greater variety of parts, requiring us change tools an average of 20 times per day
• We have 20 presses, that range in size from 30 to 610 tons
• Our facility is 41,000 square feet
• We work with 300+ different types of resins
• We have an assembly area where we perform secondary work on the parts, as 30% of the parts we make require post molding operations
• We are ISO 9001:2015 certified
• Jackson, WI
• In Jackson, we run a high volume of parts with less variety, requiring us to change tools an average of 4 to 6 times per day
• We have 21 presses that range in size from 50 to 250 tons
• Our facility is 30,000 square feet
• We work with 50 different types of resins
• We are ISO compliant
• Ripon, WI
• In Ripon, we have a manufacturing facility that is about 54,000 square feet and with enough room for up to 40 presses
• We use this facility for warehouse space, and have future plans to use this space for additional manufacturing

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What is injection Molding?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1U9W4iNDiQ

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Tooling Support

• We have a full-service tooling department at our Mountain plant that builds, maintains, repairs, and modifies the molds used in our presses to manufacture plastic parts
• We employ Journeyman toolmakers
• We have a large tooling project management of up to 100 tools
• We also use external tool manufacturing management with partners domestically and offshore

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Building tools since 1976!

Additive Manufacturing Plastic Parts

• We have a Carbon 3D printer that allows us to perform short run production parts
• We have multiple resin choices
• This technology allows us to make parts in hours – not weeks!

Carbon Lab at Nicolet Plastics

Additive Production Tooling in Prototype Time

• We recently added new technology with a 3D Metal Printer, Mantle
• Mantle allows us to accurately 3D print tool and die inserts in days, rather than the typical time frame of several weeks
• In house fast tooling production

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Value Added Services & Secondary Operations

• Pad printing
• Post Mold Insert Installation
• Kitting / FG Packaging
• Assembly

The Value: Purchase a single assembled part

Careers of NPL

• Accounting
• Engineering / Project Management
• Sales
• Setup/Process Tech
• Production Operator / Assembly
• Material Handler
• Maintenance
• Quality

• Purchasing
• Automation
• Customer Service
• Carbon 3D Tech (Mantle)
• Tool Room / PSC
• Leadership
• Shipping & Receiving/Delivery
• Human Resources
• Intern (currently Project Mgmt)

Our Hiring Process

• Online Application
• Phone screening
• Predictive Index Survey
• In person tour & interview
• Conditional offer
• Background check
• Pre employment drug testing
• Welcome letter
• Onboarding & training
• Learning Style Quiz

Our Training Process

We offer a career path with an intentional training plan and assigned trainer. We can take an entry level individual, such as someone with no manufacturing experience, high school student, and/or Youth Apprenticeship student to a much higher skill level in as little as 2 weeks.

• Production Operator Level 1– 2-week training plan with audit
• Production Operator Level 2– 60-day training plan with audit
• Material Handler – 5-week training plan
• Setup Tech – 60-day training plan
• Process Technician – approximately 1 year

Individual Development

• Welcoming (Onboarding)
• Monthly 1:1 meetings
• Personal development planning meetings/performance review
• Internal training plans with Management Resource
• External Training Needs Review/Budget/Planning

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“If you do not know where you are going,

any road might get you there”

~Lewis Carroll, author Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland~