Article: Smaller molders will soon feel price squeeze.(plastics industry)(Brief Article)

PORT HURON, Mich. - Through the past decade, small to mid-sized molders watched as industry leaders merged and acquired their way to the top of the auto supply chain.

Now those same pressures to either grow or sell out are about to hit them full force. They must decide if they will develop a unique niche, or hang on as a shoot-and-ship molder, and whether they can lead a business that can fight pricing cutbacks pushing their way down the value chain.

``The price squeeze is real,'' said Daniel Luria, vice president for strategy and measurement with the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center of Plymouth, Mich., during a conference on Profits in Plastics ...

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