DimcoGray Corp.
Located: 900 Dimco Way, off Clyo Road, Centerville.
Ownership: Employee-owned.
Products: Handles and knobs for customers in farm equipment, medical, food services, industrial uses, fitness equipment, more.
Sales: Did not disclose. Plastics News estimates injection molding sales at $10 million for the most recent fiscal year.
Machines:
22 injection presses
14 compression presses
6 Davenport screw machines
1 CNC with an autobar feeder.
Source: DimcoGray
CENTERVILLE — Michael Sieron believes in going green — as long as it saves green.
That’s one reason why the president and chief executive of DimcoGray Corp. has purchased a new Toyo press, the company’s first all-electric injection molding machine. And it’s one reason why Sieron has started a $3 million to $4 million modernization of the company’s Dimco Way plant.
DimcoGray produces handles and knobs for industrial, food, medical and other customers. The Toyo press — with 150 tons of clamping force — molds thermoset resins, or permanently molded material. Thermosets are what the company was founded on when it was born in the Oregon District in 1924. A bit of that history can be seen in Sieron’s shop, where the Toyo complements much older presses working nearby — presses that offer less flexibility and less efficiency.
But DimcoGray’s modernization is about more than new machinery. Sieron also is working with his 62 employees to reconfigure the plant so that receiving flows to shipping in an easier, more logical manner. To that end, the company is working with Centerville city government to build a road south of the plant off Clyo Road.
For now, Sieron is cautiously confident that the economy is strengthening.
“We’re going to be well-positioned for the upturn,” he said.
Nathan Cahall, Centerville economic development administrator, said city staffers have discussed the idea of a new road with Sieron and his colleagues for about a year. The city also has discussed the notion with the owner of the land on which the road would be built, Premier Health Partners.
Among the unknowns: What road design makes sense and where the road will end. Cahall said it was too soon to say whether or when the road would be built.
“We’re still studying the situation and looking at all our options,” Cahall said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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