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PTI Design Launches with Team of Industrial Designers
and Manufacturing Experts
New Design Firm Builds on PTI Engineered Plastics’ Expertise
to Align Design with Production
MACOMB,
Mich., February 1, 2011 – Mark Rathbone, founder
and CEO of PTI Engineered Plastics, today announced the launch of PTI
Design, a stand-alone product design and development firm.
PTI Design will deliver product and industrial design services with a
keen understanding of manufacturability across diverse industry segments.
“Too often, new product
ideas are compromised at the point of production,” said Mark Rathbone.
“The PTI Design team will conceive great products, but equally their
manufacturing insights will assure delivery of innovative ideas that can be
efficiently produced without compromise to the design or to the original
intent.”
For more than 25 years, PTI Engineered Plastics has been a leader
in injection molding. Throughout
that time, PTI has offered customers in-house design services to assist with
product manufacturability challenges.
PTI Design grew from a market need for a product design and
development firm able to conceive great concepts, yet have the experience
and capability to convert ideas into quality, viable and manufacturable
products and components.
The PTI Design center is staffed by an integrated team of industrial
designers and manufacturing experts who work together to help realize each
customer’s vision while eliminating design mistakes that slow down
development and, worst case, prevent a concept from reaching the market.
PTI Design is organized to assist customers who require complete
design services as well as independent designers who require insight and
support to product manufacturability.
“Our five-step design process, from
mind-to-manufacturing, ensures
that each idea achieves its optimal potential from first consideration of
features to in-field performance,” continued Rathbone.
“When the market won’t wait, PTI Design won’t let a great idea become
a victim of design failure.”
For additional information contact John Budreau, executive
director, at 586.203.4700, or visit
teamPTIdesign.com.
About PTI Engineered Plastics:
PTI Engineered Plastics is a privately held, full-service plastic
injection molder specializing in getting customers’ products to market ahead
of the competition. With approximately 50 percent of the company’s business
comprised of prototyping and short-run manufacturing, PTI customers
typically have a vision for their product and a requirement to get their
product to market first with no compromises to design or performance. The
company currently employs 190 and serves multiple industry segments
including automotive, medical products, electronics, military and
performance sports. To accommodate increasing demand for its services, the
25-year-old company recently moved into a larger, newly constructed design,
engineering and manufacturing facility featuring cleanroom production. For
more information visit www.teamPTI.com.