Plastics

Plastics

Grounded perspectives for a changing plastics industry

Growth opportunities in the plastics industry often come with difficult trade-offs. Manufacturers are balancing investments in automation, capacity, and talent while managing costs, responding to customer demands, and meeting sustainability requirements. The choices they make today can shape their competitiveness for years to come.

Through our work with more than 500 plastics and allied manufacturing clients, we see how companies across the industry are responding to market conditions and trends — and what distinguishes those that consistently perform well from those that struggle to keep pace. Combined with more than 100 years of experience serving manufacturers, those insights inform our work with clients on operational performance, profitability, technology investments, growth strategies, and long-term business planning.

    Across the packaging, automotive, construction, medical, and consumer goods markets, we support plastics manufacturers through every stage of the business life cycle.
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    What top performers do differently

    Top-performing organizations don’t succeed by accident — they identify opportunities, address risks, and make informed decisions with confidence.

    Leading plastics manufacturers choose to work with us because we offer a unique, honest perspective and practical, future-focused recommendations that are always grounded in data and experience. With a trusted advisor in your corner, you’ll gain foresight and confidence to make the best decisions in every situation.

    “We combine the insights of our plastics industry benchmarking study with decades of experience serving plastics manufacturers to offer a trusted perspective on growth opportunities and business model risks,” said Damitha Bandara, plastics assurance partner. “We look out for our clients and give them honest, practical counsel.”

    Al Ridilla
    President, Enterprise Molded Products Business, Parkway Products Inc.

    We are a fairly data-driven metrics-oriented organization and have historically compared our 6 operations against each other internally. Participation in the North American Plastics Industry Survey (NAPIS) has taken benchmarking to the next level giving us a broad, valid comparative universe. Operationally we use the NAPIS data for enhancing the output and efficiency of our assets and goal setting. Commercially we reference the information to test the validity of “target pricing” that is frequently presented to our sales assets. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, NAPIS data has become part of our acquisition toolbox during the initial assessment and operational due diligence phases of the process. Candidly our entire management looks forward to the NAPIS survey.

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