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Centro Receives EPA Certificate of Conformance
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North Liberty, IA (March 5, 2009) Centro has received a Certificate
of Conformity from the Environmental Protection Agency for its
low evaporative fuel tank solution, RotoLoPerm®.
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this Press Release.
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Centro Receives CARB Certification
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North Liberty, IA (November 2, 2006) Centro, Inc., the largest custom
rotational molder in North America, has recently received three
Executive Orders from the state of California concerning reduced
fuel permeation requirements that are expected to go into effect
there in 2008.
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information on this topic.
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Centro Doubles North Carolina Plant
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North Liberty, IA (June 14, 2005) North Liberty, IA - Centro Incorporated,
the largest custom rotational molder in North America, has invested
over $2.5 million in its Claremont, North Carolina plant by adding
30 new jobs and more than 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
The addition doubles the existing size of the plant to over 100,000
square feet and brings the total number of people employed at the
North Carolina facility to 200. This expansion is phase 2 of the
original 3-phase site plan that was proposed when the facility was
established in 1999.
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Rotomolders Hear New Ways To Make Better Parts, Cut Costs
at Fall ARM Conference (Plastics Technology Magazine)
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A process that polymerizes liquid caprolactam in the mold has been
brought to the U.S. by rotomolder Centro Inc., based in North Liberty,
Iowa. Called Rotomolded Anionic Polymerization, or RAP, the process
is claimed to offer cost savings relative to using standard nylon
6 resin. Centro developed the process with several other European
companies. RAP has been used in Europe for several years to make
fuel tanks, but Centro worked with several U.S. and European companies
to improve the safety and productivity of the process.
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Manufacturing innovations helping E. Iowa company expand its market
(The Gazette)
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North Liberty, IA (October 31, 2004) Centro Inc., the fourth-largest
rotational molding company in the North America, is installing a
European technology known as rotomolded anionic polymerization or
RAP at its headquarters plant. The multimillion-dollar investment
will enable Centro to produce parts in less time and with a "Class
A" surface that can be painted and used at higher operating temperatures.
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Centro Filling Niche With New Technology
(Corridor Business Journal)
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North Liberty, IA (October 11, 2004) Centro Inc., the North Liberty
custom rotational molder, is in the midst of installing a new high-tech
process to its main manufacturing facility, which will enable the
business to produce Nylon 6 products more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Nylon 6 products are commonly used for chemical storage tanks, surge
tanks and hydraulic tanks, among other things.
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this Article
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Centro Imports ‘RAP’ for Market Niche |
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North Liberty, IA (July 23, 2004) Centro Incorporated, the largest
custom rotational molder in North America is bringing a high tech
process to their main manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters
in North Liberty, Iowa. This technology, known as Rotomolded Anionic
Polymerization (RAP) will provide a more cost effective means to rotationally
mold Nylon 6 products. The multi-million dollar investment will be
fully operational by January 2005.
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this Article
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News
Release
August 11, 2003
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Centro,
Inc. ranks among North America's top Rotational Molders!
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Centro,
Inc. headquartered in North Liberty, Iowa ranks #5 among all rotational
molders of plastic products in North America according to a dollar-based
ranking published August 11, 2003 in Plastics
News. Plastics News ranked
all rotational molders. Centro is the largest rotational molder in
the rankings that serves strictly custom markets.
Centro has manufacturing facilities in North Liberty, Iowa, Horicon,
Wisconsin, Claremont, North Carolina, Ankeny, Iowa, and Valley City,
North Dakota.
Rotomolding is a small but fast-growing segment of a plastics product
manufacturing industry that generates total U.S. shipments valued
at well in excess of $151 billion a year.
The rotational molding process involves filling a mold with a measured
amount of powder or liquid resin, closing the mold halves, placing
the molds in a heated oven, and rotating them biaxially. During heating,
the resin melts, fuses and densifies into the shape of the mold cavity.
The molds then are cooled and opened, yielding hollow, seamless parts
of all shapes and sizes. Rotomolding products range from storage tanks
and highway safety barrels to sporting goods, complex-shaped toys,
playground equipment, and various industrial and consumer products.
This is the ninth annual ranking of rotational molding companies by
Plastics
News,
an Akron, Ohio-based weekly newspaper that reports on the business
of the plastics industry.
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Plastics
News, August 5, 2002, Special Report:
Centro keeps testing the limits
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Centro
was featured in a special report in Plastics
News telling
the history of Centro from founder Dick Rozek's vision and determination
for a plastics company in 1970, to overcoming a 1996 fire which destroyed
the original manufacturing plant in Oxford, Iowa, to the integrity
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