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- Industry: Industrial packaging manufacturing
- Location: Baldwin, Wisconsin
- Website: vitalplastics.com
Vital Plastics manufactures and assembles precision thermoplastic injection-molded components for industrial, automotive, medical, packaging, filtration, and data center applications. Founded in 1994, the company specializes in custom molding, fully automated manufacturing solutions, and partial-to-total assembly, supported by advanced robotics and engineering expertise. Vital Plastics serves leading Fortune 500 manufacturers throughout North America and operates over 50 molding machines in two Wisconsin facilities, providing customers with reliable, high-quality production and assembly solutions.
- Owned Since: 2023
- Annual Production: 600 million parts
- Cap. Ex. Increase: 120%
- Industry: Precision metal forming & assembly
- Location: Goodrich, Michigan
- Website: burklandinc.com
Burkland is a world-class producer of precision, safety-critical metal components and assemblies for automotive, heavy truck, industrial, and military applications. The primary manufacturing processes at Burkland are metal fine blanking, machining, and assembly. Burkland excels with applications that have strict requirements for flatness, perpendicularity, edge quality, and dimensional accuracy with minimal post-machining, especially in products that require relatively thick material.
- Owned Since: 2009
- Profitability Increased: 3.5x
- New Jobs Created: 115+
- Industry: Reusable packaging
- Location: Orion, Michigan
- Website: creativetechniques.com
Creative Techniques (CTI) designs and manufactures innovative, reusable, and recyclable packaging for industrial applications. CTI specializes in highly engineered, custom-designed, value-added packaging systems and products that provide customers with efficient, superior product protection and a lower total cost. Established in 1984, Creative Techniques leverages its material handling and packaging expertise to serve leading global customers.
- Ownership Period: 18 Years
- Revenue Growth: 4.2x
- Capacity Increased: 112%
- Industry: Diversified plastic manufacturing & assembly
- Location: Midland, Ontario, Canada
- Website: baytechplastics.com
Baytech Plastics designs, manufactures, and delivers high-quality plastic assemblies to customers throughout North America and around the world. Founded in 1946, Baytech has grown into one of Canada's largest independent plastics companies. Baytech operates two production facilities totaling more than 200,000 square feet and offers injection molding capabilities ranging from 44 to 2,600 tons.
- Owned Since: 2005
- Revenue Growth: 2.0x+
- Capacity Increased: 140%
- Industry: "Quick-serve Restaurants (QSR)"
- Location: North and Central Illinois
- Website: fiveguys.com
DTD Burgers is the exclusive franchisee of Five Guys Burgers & Fries in Northern and Central Illinois. Five Guys is a fresh, handcrafted burger-and-fries concept founded in 1986 in Washington, D.C. Five Guys Burgers & Fries is one of the leading and fastest-growing QSR brands in the United States. After successfully developing, building, and operating a profitable territory in Northern and Central Illinois over seven years, Wolverine Capital Partners sold DTD Burgers to a larger franchisee to create greater career opportunities for its employees.
- Ownership Period: 7 Years
- Revenue Growth: 2.0x+
- New Jobs Created: 82
