Infinity News!
11/13/2024: A Promotion From Within
Please join us in congratulating Thaddeus Sexton for his promotion to Vice President of Operations! Thad joined the Infinity Team in August of 2011 and has been overseeing the Quality Department for the last several years. With this promotion, his involvement in the company will expand to cover a wider range of duties and oversight such as plant operations and Technology Services. Best of luck in your new position, Thad!
03/25/2024: Another Long Term Employee Retirement
After 36 years in engineering here at Infinity, Marc Whitfield is retiring. Marc was heavily involved in many projects over the years which included all pad printing and most of the automation projects in addition to overseeing the estimating activities. Marc – Thanks for all the years of service and have fun putting miles on that camper!
03/20/2024: Robotics Team Honored
Congratulations to the Mt Vernon High School Robotics Team (#9453) which won the “Rookie of the Year” honors at the recent Columbus, IN. competition. A great accomplishment considering the team was only 10 weeks old!
02/20/2024: A thank you to one of our customers
A big THANK YOU to Urban Releaf for mentioning our help in the Evansville Business Magazine article with your product packaging!
02/19/2024: New machines, retirement, and promotions
The month os February brings several changes to Infinity Molding!
• Infinity took delivery of two more new molding machines. A Toyo 500 ton and a Toyo 150 ton which will both have Yushin robots installed. The 500-ton press replaces a 390 that was almost 20 years old. The 150 was purchased to support a new program which will have extensive and dedicated automation installed on the press.
• Our longtime CFO, Sondra Ash, is stepping back from her fulltime role at Infinity after 22 years. She will begin a part time role supporting various administrative projects which will allow her to spend more time with family – out of state. We congratulate and wish her the best in her semi-retirement!
• Mike Folz has been promoted to Controller, taking over the day-to-day accounting activities in addition to purchasing duties. Mike has been with Infinity for 3 1/2 years.
• Bart Willner has been promoted from Tooling Engineer to Engineering Manager. He assumes project engineering and estimating responsibilities along with his current tooling role. Bart has been with Infinity for 22 years.
07/15/2023: Annual Company Luau
Last Saturday, 07/15/2023, was the 5th installment of the annual Infinity Luau at Western Hills Country Club. This year, the evening got a little tense when the guest of honor, Mr. Hole E. Hogg, was running late for the event after getting caught in a smoky fire earlier in the day. Fortunately, Mr. Hogg was not too late, and his presence was enjoyed by all!
04/28/2023: It's Now Official
Infinity has now retired its last hydraulic machine and it is out of the building. We now have our entire machine line up of all electric machines ranging from 55 tons to 500 tons of clamping force. Every machine is equipped with either a 3 axis, top mount robot or a side mounted, 6 axis collaborative robot. Take a look at some of our web pages to learn more.
02/28/2023: End of an Era
It is with great pride that Infinity is announcing the end of the hydraulic era of injection machines. The last hydraulic press was decommissioned this February. The remaining 29 electric presses all have servo robots mounted for part removal and part isolation, signaled by machine parameters. The commitment to Best in Class machine architecture positions us well for our future in our industry.
07/13/2022: Equipment Updates
New Yushin robots have arrived to be used in our clean room facility. Updated robots were purchased to improve the flexibility with our presses and packaging processes within our clean room. The first one is running and replaced a pneumatic picker. The second one will be installed in the coming weeks.
07/05/2022: No More Vertical
Infinity has divested itself of our last two vertical machines. At one time we had 6 presses in this category. While great for running manual, insert molding jobs, our remaining work could not justify further investments in newer equipment as these presses are nearly twice as expensive as a horizontal press of the same tonnage. Most of our customers converted their molds to run in horizontal presses while we helped others transition the work to other companies with vertical machines. We will re-deploy this space to meet our future needs.
04/15/2022: Office Renovations Completed
The entire office area of Infinity has been completely renovated with new paint, vinyl and carpeting. Staff has rearranged, redecorated and organized their individual spaces making this office facelift a success!
04/10/2022: Sprinkler System Completed
The plant-wide sprinkler system installation came to completion with an independent Fire & Safety company performing the testing and certifying its operation.
04/05/2022: Sandy Baker Retires
Long time employee, Sandy Baker joined the ranks of the retired on April 05, 2022. Sandy spent many years working in the Accounting and Purchasing departments. She asked that we not make a big deal out of her retirement, but we still celebrated with morning cupcakes in the board room! We will miss your smiling face around the office, Sandy!
04/04/2022: Employee Promotion Announced
To fill the vacancy left by Bob Kolb, we are pleased to announce the promotion of Blake Winternheimer. Blake joined Infinity in July of 2017 working in the Maintenance department installing and repairing just about anything around the plant that needed attention. At least for a while, he will continue to work with robotics and other specialized production equipment. We wish Blake the best of luck in his new position!
04/01/2022: Robert "Bob" Kolb Retires
Program Manager Robert "Bob" Kolb, entered his retirement on 04/01/2022. Bob was well-liked around the company and was always upbeat and outgoing. We celebrated with a great meal at the Western Hills Country Club on his last day. Always quick with a joke, we really thought him retiring on April Fools Day was quite appropriate! :-)
01/18/2022: BPW Honors Infinity Employee Carolyn L.
We would like to congratulate Carolyn L. (last name omitted for her privacy), BPW Woman of the Year for 2022, who was nominated by her close friend, Cindy. The following is an excerpt from Cindy's nomination letter:
"I would like to nominate Carolyn L. for woman of the year. For those who don't know; Carolyn is a very hard worker, has a heart of gold and will do anything for anyone. If you need a good friend she would be the one. I have known her since our children were in grade school. She was a good, loyal wife and mother who always put her family's needs above her own.
She has worked at her job with Infinity Molding for nearly twenty years and puts in a lot of overtime, sometimes so much that when she gets home, she will fall asleep on the sofa without eating dinner. Carolyn is a friend you could trust to come into your house to take care of your parents or your pets. She's been a member of BPW for 24 years. She's an all-around great lady!"
