Milacron Plastics Technologies is one of the world’s largest suppliers of machinery for the manufacture of plastics. The company’s general-purpose injection molding machines are the leading brand used in North America, and Milicron is the second-largest supplier of machines and components to process plastic in the world.

The present-day company developed in the last quester of the 19^th century as a machine shop in downtown Cincinnati, begun by Fred Holz. Cincinnati Screw and Tap Company was incorporated in 1884, and expanded under the leadership of Holz and Frederick A. Geier, who joined the company in 1887. The company switched to machine-making, and from 1889 as the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company, succeeded in manufacturing milling machines and cutter grinders, even winning a gold medal at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair. By the 1920s the company, known as The Mill, was the largest of its kind in the world, and it continued to grow by developing precision grinding machines for the auto industry. Production increased sevenfold during the Second World War.

In the post-war era The Mill began developing machines that made plastic products, introducing its first injection molding machine in 1968. In the following decades the company, now called Cininnati Milicron become a leader in building injection molding, blow molding and extrusion machinery and by the 1990s, Milacron was the world's broadest-range supplier to the plastics processing industry, building machinery and offering mold tooling, parts, supplies, services and support. It acquired several companies to strengthen this line of business, including Ferromatik (1993), DME (1996) and Uniloy (1998).

The company sold its legacy machine tool business and became Milacron Inc. 1998 and in 2004 it completely divested its metalworking tools and grinding wheel businesses. Now known as Milicron Plastics Technologies, the company is focused on solely plastics machinery, mold technologies and industrial fluids.

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