About Innovative Injection Technologies
On February 27, 1946, Delavan Manufacturing Co of Des Moines was incorporated in the State of Iowa. Delavan developed a specialty in oil burner nozzles. B. Sheldon Goreham became a one third owner and a Vice President as the company expanded into aviation related products.
To support this Delavan expansion, "Shel" along with Horace Read, Lloyd Mattson and Felix Tamasi, incorporated a separate company called Steel Treating Inc on August 26, 1958 and moved into a shop at 1120 Railroad Avenue in West Des Moines.
In 1960, Steel Treating Inc. saw a great opportunity for future growth in plastic nozzles for the agricultural market. STI purchased three injection molding machines and installed these machines in a 1200 square foot wing of their steel company. Hence, Mid Central Plastics-Division of Steel Treating Inc was born.
With many markets converting to this new plastic material, Steel Treating looked for other opportunities for their injection molding assets. The Kautzky Manufacturing Co. was converting the Lazy Ike fishing lure from wood to plastic and Mid Central Plastics-Division of Steel Treating Inc injection molded the lure bodies and shipped them to Fort Dodge, IA. The success of this new plastics venture necessitated a move to a larger 6500 square foot building at 1107 Maple Avenue in West Des Moines in 1963.
On the June 26, 1968 Steel Treating Inc merged into the surviving corporation, Delavan Manufacturing Company. A few months later on August 8, 1968, Ronald E Blair filed the articles of incorporation for a new Delavan company called Mid Central Plastics Inc. The plastics operations were moved from Maple Avenue to the new 36,340 square foot building at 2360 Grand Avenue in 1969. We have been in this building for 41years. On November 18, 1976, B. Sheldon Goreham purchased Mid Central Plastics Inc from the Delavan Manufacturing Company and became sole owner.
Shel Goreham died in 1993 at the age of 78 and the ownership of Mid Central Plastics Inc was inherited and equally split amongst his three surviving children, R. L. "Dick" Goreham, President, D. A. "Dee" Goreham Staples, Vice President, and W. B. Bill Goreham.
The Goreham family sold Mid Central Plastics to Bill Morton and the publicly traded Morton Industrial Group in June 1998. The company began 'doing business as' Morton Custom Plastics. Paul Schmitz became President of Morton Custom Plastics and Tracy Price became the General Manager of the West Des Moines factory.
On May 28, 2003, Bob and Josh Janeczko, along with Stuart Oxer, filed articles of incorporation in the State of Iowa as Innovative Injection Technologies Inc and i2tech LLC. On June 20, 2003, they purchased the assets of Mid Central Plastics Inc from Morton Industrial Group and changed the name to Innovative Injection Technologies.
Our company has traveled many roads from a privately held to publicly traded and back to a privately held company in its history.
The ISO 9001 - 2000 certified company specializes in low volume highly engineered molding with a variety of materials. The company also reserves capacity for high volume large tonnage overflow molding for captive molders. i2tech's outstanding performance has resulted in over 15 customer and industry awards in the last several years.
