Business View Magazine | December 2019

35 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 ACCURATE PLAST I CS , INC . Accurate Plastics began as a laminate distributor that became a producer after equipment and a production facility was acquired by Company President and Founder, Michael Stacey, in January 1980. “We began making laminate within a few months of that,” he recounts. “As time went by, we added another press and another facility in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and we’ve been selling high pressure laminate to the industry for all these decades.” Today, the company has 70 employees and sells its products worldwide. “We mostly sell through distributors and fabricators,” says Company CEO, Max Egan. “We see ourselves as a manufacturing partner for the distribution and fabrication partners in our supply chain.” The company’s proprietary Acculam lines have many uses and applications for their end users. For example, some Acculam grades of tubing and sheet material find use in electric arc furnace and welding equipment, including electrode insulating plates, induction heating coil forms, terminal blocks, platen insulation, and bus insulation. Some provide casings for induction heating impeders and Mig welding tip insulation. Other grades are used in gaskets, thermal insulation, electrical barriers, shims and spacers in oil, gas, water, and various pipeline applications, as well as in motors, carburetors, etc., where both strength and seal capabilities are needed. The company’s strongest thermoset laminate materials, which have excellent stability in the presence of water, chemicals, and solvents, allow uses in cryogenic, magnetic, laser, medical equipment, and chemical assemblies. Others serve as rocket motor casings for pilot ejection seats, flares, practice munitions, and other military and ordinance applications. Still other products are used in heavy equipment and transport vehicles as race bearings, flanges, gears, hydraulic wear rings, motor mounts, compressor vanes, doctor blades, etc. The excellent electrical insulating properties, high