Ferriot, Inc

A Commitment to Quality since 1929

Ferriot Inc. is a full-service contract manufacturer, an injection molding company, and molder of engineered resins. Privately held since its founding in 1929, Ferriot currently has over 150 employees, including veteran engineers and skilled technicians of the manufacturing and molding industry.

American Based

Location and Size of Facility: In 1999, Ferriot Inc. expanded to its current 200,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility at 1000 Arlington Circle in Akron, Ohio. For those interested in convenient on-site visits, this location is 20 minutes from the Akron-Canton Airport and centrally located in a high concentration of industries in the Midwest and East Coast.

Ferriot’s Full Service Contract Manufacturing include engineering, design, molding, sub- and finished assembly and delivery of components and finished products for the following key industries:

• Automated banking
• Computers and office machines
• Medical equipment, including surgical and laboratory instruments, drug and IV-dispensing machines, electrical and electro-medical apparatuses, and orthopedic and prosthetic appliances
• Industrial machinery
• Hand and edge tools
• Photo equipment
• Gasoline pumps
• Control, measuring and automation systems

Core Competencies

• Specialized engineering assistance for developing complex thermoplastic materials
• Mold making for large components
• Painting and finishing
• Injection structural foam molding
• Gas-assist molding
• Contract manufacturing
• Short runs

Additional Ferriot Benefits

• Assistance with material selection, tool selection and part design
• Rapid prototyping for evaluation or field testing
• Forecasts of resin prices and availability, allowing customers to set prices appropriately
• Finite-element analysis with 3-D modeling to simulate part performance
• Mold-flow analysis for avoiding potential manufacturing defects
• Shipping and freight routing
• A proven network of tool builders

Ferriot Advantages

• High customer satisfaction, with minimal part rejection
• Multiple custom molding services
• Expertise in a wide range of molding disciplines, enabling customers to place multiple projects with one vendor
• Ability to maintain and repair molding tools internally
• 24-hour mold repair and maintenance, allowing production to stay on schedule
• Pad printing to turn out finished parts with branding and other artwork
• Capacity to insert mold subcomponents directly into products for high manufacturing efficiency
• Full or partial assembly of mechanical and electro-mechanical components for maximum efficiency
• EMI/RFI shielding to protect molded components
• In-house testing of components or assemblies prior to delivery
• Gas-assist technology to form complex parts into a unified component