The struggle to make Q-1: a custom molder's story. (Ford Motor Co.'s quality rating; Fremont Plastic Products Inc.)

Plastics Technology, September, 1990 by Schut, Jan. H.

The Struggle to Make Q-1: A Custom Molder's Story

Delivering quality industrial blow molded parts isn't hard - all you have to do is throw the bad parts away. That's how new owners initially pulled tiny Fremont Plastic Products Inc. in Fremont, Ohio, up from a company no longer allowed to bid on jobs for Ford Motor Co. in late 1985, to Ford's coveted Q-1 rating, which Fremont was awarded this May.

"In a sense we got the Q-1 by throwing parts away," says Fremont president Paul Rothschild, who with associate Donald Smith and Rona Rothschild (married to Paul) bought Fremont four and a half years ago as a profitable but down-at-the-heel maker of toys, and auto and drainage parts. "We didn't have the quality processes and procedures then, so we threw parts...

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