History

Uniloy's commitment to market leadership and customer satisfaction has not wavered since the late 1950s, when the company became the first supplier of blowmolding equipment in the U.S.

As the Uniloy Division of Hoover Ball & Bearing, the company became the leader in the emerging blowmolding industry by developing machinery and patenting an innovative "hollow-handle" plastic bottle design for the dairy packaging market. America's pioneer of plastic milk bottles rapidly enhanced its blowmolding systems to include patented solutions for trimming, handling and downstream equipment.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Uniloy penetrated additional markets for plastic containers and broadened its product line through a series of acquisitions. In 1985, the company was purchased by Johnson Controls. By the end of the decade, the Plastics Machinery Division was a global organization providing blowmolding machinery based on accumulator head and reciprocating screw intermittent extrusion, structural foam molding, injection blowmolding, and vertical wheel and shuttle continuous extrusion. In 1998, Uniloy became part of Milacron Inc., the worlds' broadest-line supplier of plastics processing technology and aftermarket service and support.

1990-2000

1998 - Milacron, Inc. purchased the Plastics Machinery Division from Johnson Controls, Inc. The Plastics Machinery Division became Uniloy Milacron, Inc. Plastics Technologies Group.
1997 - Set up business developments in Singapore and India
1995 - Purchased B&W Kunststoffmaschinen & Handelsgesellschaft mbH of Berlin, Germany to expand continuous extrusion technology
1991 - Created PET Division for producing injection stretch-blow machinery

1980-1990

1988 - Purchased Moretti S.r.l., Italy for industrial blowmolding technology
1985 - Johnson Controls, Inc. purchased Hoover Universal
1985 - Purchased Costruzioni Meccaniche S.p.A. (COMEC), Italy; Established international manufacturing operations and added continuous extrusion blowmolding technology
1984 - Licensed Solvay technology; Began development of vertical wheel continuous extrusion blowmolder
1982 - Purchased Rainville Company for injection blowmolding technology
1980 - Became Hoover Universal, Inc.; Formed Plastics Machinery Division to manufacture and market Uniloy Blowmolding Systems