CACO PACIFIC history

Carlson opens Pacific Molds in El Monte, CA. 1956: Ontario Molds, another Carlson company is founded.

1958: First Multi-Material molds are designed and developed.

1959: Caco, Pacific and Ontario mold shops are consolidated under Caco-Pacific, Inc. in Covina, CA. The first Caco-Pacific multi-cavity (32) hot runner injection mold (which increased productivity by 107% over previous cold runner molds) is built.

1961: Profit Sharing Plan is started.

1963: Caco-Pacific pioneers multi-cavity stack-mold technology for Polaroid film packs with total interchangeability of mold components.

1965: Caco-Pacific, Inc. develops multi-color/multi-shot molds for Amerace Corporation’s newly patented Chrome Plating of Plastics Technology.

1967: Amerace Corporation buys Caco-Pacific, Inc. from Gil Carlson, which is now known as Caco-Pacific Division of Amerace.

1970: 11,900 sq. ft. is added for mold testing and warehousing.

1973: Caco-Pacific assists MCA (Universal Studios) in development of world’s first Laser Optical Disc technology.

1979: Caco-Pacific develops first Compact Disc (CD) injection mold tooling and assists General Electric and Dow Chemical to perfect the mold-ability of Laser Optical Discs.

1981: 7,400 sq. ft. of engineering/general office space is added.

Gil Carlson remains President until his retirement in 1982.

1984: Caco-Pacific designs and develops fastest cycling injection molds for 3M Corporation to mold thin-wall VHS Video Cassettes.

1985: Management buys company back from Amerace Corporation.

1993: The first servo electrically driven high-speed Mold Rotating Plate (MRP) is sold, cutting mold rotation time for fast shot-to-shot sequencing.

1998: Lobby expansion and 1,200 sq. ft. of additional office space completed to Corporate Headquarters in Covina.

1999: The Interactive Process Manager (IPM) is unveiled, which enables “intelligent” molds and Mold Rotating Plates (MRPs). 1999: Electrode palletizing is expanded and management invests heavily into automated robotic equipment to enhance our delivery speed to our customers.

2000: LIT (Low Inertia Turning) is introduced as a new multi-shot technology.

2004: Another major shareholder of CACO PACIFIC retires and management again contributes the shares to the ESOP, increasing to 60% employee ownership through the ESOP Trust.

2009: CACO PACIFIC becomes 100% employee owned when the last owner outside the ESOP sells his shares back to the company.

The ESOP Trust owns 100% of CACO PACIFIC. 2010: More major investments are made in nearly doubling the capacity of our pre-heat treat CNC Milling operations.

2012: MAPP (Multiple Alternating Product Positions) is introduced as a new technology for movement of parts in multi-shot molding.