About Placon
Family Owned Since 1966
Since 1966, we’ve been a family owned and operated business here in the United States, helping organizations find Simply Better Packaging.
About
Who We Are
Placon is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative and sustainable plastic packaging for the medical, food, and consumer goods markets, and is currently ranked in the Top 20 of Plastics News’ 2025 Thermoformers Rankings.
Founded by Tom Mohs in 1966, the company has grown through innovative engineering and a relentless commitment to its customers. From the beginning, Placon has pushed the boundaries of thermoforming by adapting technologies from the metal and paper industries into scalable equipment for repeatable, high-volume production.
Among Placon’s early contributions to the industry were the first thermoformed retail clamshell, trim systems that introduced matched-metal technologies to thermoforming, and the pioneering use of 100% post-consumer recycled PET plastic in retail packaging. More recently, the company has won numerous design awards, including eight Ameristar and four WorldStar awards for innovative packaging design since 2019.
About Placon
Our Mission, Vision, and Values
Our Mission
To deliver superior design and engineering through sustainable innovation, speed to market, and a relentless focus on customer success.
Our Vision
To compete with purpose and win through speed, creativity, and customer obsession.
Our Values
Placon exists to provide engaging and rewarding career opportunities to our employees, to provide value and growth to our shareholders, and to perpetuate the company as a family enterprise. Our values are principles that ensure we continually answer to the highest standards.
Our Facilities
Our Locations
HEadquarters
Madison, WI
Since 1966, our headquarters has been in Madison, Wisconsin. We have a 340,000 square foot corporate facility with a robust CNC machining department, world-class inline and rollfed thermoformers, extruders, state-of-the-art robotics and ISO 8 clean rooms. In addition, Madison is home to our onsite recycling center where we bring in millions of recycled PET bottles and thermoforms each year to create our EcoStar® post-consumer recycled PET material for food, medical, and retail packaging. We also have our shipping and warehouse facility in DeForest, Wisconsin, which houses in-stock and ready-to-ship products. Our other manufacturing locations include:
48,000 SQ. FT. - MEDICAL
Elkhart, IN
Located strategically in Elkhart, Indiana, our 48,000 square foot ISO 13845 certified facility manufactures medical products only. From in-house innovative design, prototyping, tooling, inline flexographic printing, welding and die cutting, our Elkhart facility has all the tools in place to provide world-class packaging solutions for sterile and non-sterile applications, that are 21 CFR 820 compliant.
84,000 SQ. FT. - FOOD, RETAIL, MEDICAL
Plymouth, MN
Our Plymouth team is equipped with in-house product and tool design, tool fabrication, quality, and rolled manufacturing departments. This 84,000 square foot facility is ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified, along with an ISO 100,000 clean room to support food, retail, and medical packaging projects.
100,000+ SQ. FT. - INJECTION MOLDED
West Springfield, MA
Medical
Costa Rica
Our Process
The Placon Difference
We believe in The Placon Way; honesty, integrity, respect for people and the environment, continuous learning and development, and unlocking the heart and mind of the engineer in every one of us. We believe that, by following these core ideals, we can push the boundaries of packaging design and create the best experience for our customers. We prioritize partnerships and have US-based facilities for increased transparency, improved communication, and to support our local cities.