R&D/Leverage Joins Growing Tooling Family
R&D/Leverage becomes the third tooling acquisition of Omaha startup Adler Industrial Solutions.
Liberty IBM System is a patented injection-blow tooling design from R&D/Leverage. Photo Credit: R&D/Leverage
In September, Adler Industrial Solutions Inc. acquired R&D/Leverage Co., a builder of molds for all types of blow molding, PET preforms and other injection molded parts. Based in Lee’s Summit, Mo., R&D/Leverage was founded in 1975. Today, it has over 250 employees in plants in Lee’s Summit and England that serve food, beverage, personal care and healthcare markets.
Adler Industrial Solutions was founded in Omaha, Neb., in 2021, when it embarked on creating a “network” of geographically distributed tooling and die companies. Its first acquisition, in October 2021, was Shorts Tool & Mfg. (renamed Pinnacle Molds, an Adler Company), a builder of close-tolerance and multicavity injection molds in Saegertown, Pa. Next, Adler purchased another injection moldmaker with a similar focus, Rapid Mold Solutions, in Erie, Pa. Adler says the acquired companies will benefit from additional corporate and software resources and investment.
