Phillips, Wi Has an Impressive Manufacturing Base Second to None in the 5p and Converting Industries!

As I travel across Wisconsin, I have witnessed remarkably interesting small towns with major manufacturers located in Northern Wisconsin. A notable example is Phillips, WI. The Population is 1,533. Phillips became the headquarters for supplying logging camps with supplies. Logging was the main stay of the town, and the inexhaustible forests did not last long. Agriculture was the home of the future and supplying the area paper and pulp mills with hardwood and softwood logs.

Today, Phillips has developed a variety of recreational facilities with an impressive manufacturing base second to none. I had the opportunity to visit and tour some of the facilities.

1. Phillips Plastics Corporation was founded by Robert Cervenka and Louie Cervenka as an injection molding company. Kohlberg & Company acquired Phillips Plastics Corporation. The company with the acquisition of Medisize, a contract manufacturer, and Phillips Plastic Corporation changed its name to Phillips-Medisize. Phillips-Medisize Corporation, headquartered in Hudson, WI with over 2,100 people and fourteen locations in Wisconsin. Phillips-Medisize has 6,000 employees worldwide, 29 Global Locations and annual revenue of $1.4 Billion. I would estimate the Phillips plant employes 350 people in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.
2. BW Papersystem, a division of Barry-Wehmiller with an estimated annual revenue of $4 billon has acquired more than eighty companies that Manufacturers equipment for a variety of industries: Packaging, Paper Converting, Sheeting, Corrugating, Engineering, and It Consulting. The Phillips Manufacturing Facility has over 400,000 square feet of production and four hundred employees in Phillips with state-of-the-art manufacturing.
3. Phillips Plating is a Plastic Fabrication company with annual revenue estimated at $20 million with eighty-seven employees. It was founded in 1970. Phillips Plating provides exceptional plating-on-plastic in a variety of finishes allowing intriguing eye-catching designs. Phillips Plating services customers in the automotive field with products worldwide.