Company History
1959
Tru-form Plastics Was Established
The company began as a manufacturer of heavy gauge thermoformed plastic parts.
1974
THE SAHM FAMILY ACQUIRES TRU-FORM PLASTICS
Roland Sahm started Elixiri Industries in 1948 and through the years of hard work and perseverance built a corporation into one of the largest privately held companies in California. In 1974 the Sahm family acquired Tru-Form Plastics which had 8 employees in an 8,000 square foot facility in the City of Industry California. The Sahm family grew the business, added people, machines and capabilities.
1975
INTERTRADE INDUSTRIES WAS FOUNDED
InterTrade Industries Ltd. manufactures custom plastic thermoforming products. The company specializes in vacuum and pressure forming of heavy-gauge plastics. Its services include thermoforming, consultation, product design, prototyping, computer numerically controlled machining, in-house tooling, and finishing and assembly, and multiple secondary services. The company provides thin-gauge and thick gauge plastic thermoformed products for the medical, aerospace, defense, automotive electronics and manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 1975 and is based in Westminster, California.
2005
American Innotek acquires InterTrade Industries
2005
Tru-Form Plastics expands in Gardena California
In 2005, the company was relocated to a 50,000 square foot facility in Gardena California, further expanding their capabilities to include high level assembly, painting, conductive coating and silk screening.
2010
INTERTRADE INDUSTRIES ACQUIRED PLASTIC CONCEPT INC. (PCI)
In 2010, InterTrade Industries, acquired Plastic Concept Inc. (PCI), a Huntington Beach-based manufacturer of plastic thermoformed products to expand its capabilities in the retail packaging market. The acquisition of PCI provided a second location, doubling our manufacturing space, and quadrupling our tooling capabilities. In addition, InterTrade purchased nine thermoforming lines that manufacture thin-gauge plastics in the retail and medical packaging markets. This acquisition added to the blister and clamshell thermoforming capabilities of InterTrade Industries.
2013
INTERTRADE INDUSTRIES ACQUIRED ADVANCED THERMOFORMING ENTERPRISES (ATE)
In 2013, InterTrade Industries acquired Advanced Thermoforming Enterprises (ATE) to further penetrate the medical market. ATE specialized in developing medical plastic packaging, engineering, and supplying thermoformed plastic packaging to medical and pharmaceutical companies domestically and internationally.
2015
INTERTRADE INDUSTRIES EXPANDS TO 74,000 SQFT FACILITY
In 2015, the Goode family acquired controlling interest of American Innotek and its wholly owned subsidiary InterTrade industries (ITI) and Jim Goode was appointed as President. Also in 2015, InterTrade Industries signed a lease to take over the entire 74,000 square foot area in their Westminster facility and consolidated the operations of PCI from Huntington Beach and ATE from Oceanside into the more modern Westminster plant.
2018
INTERTRADE INDUSTRIES ACQUIRED TRU-FORM PLASTICS
In 2017, Doug Sahm approached Jim Goode with a proposal to combine the two companies. In 2018, InterTrade Industries acquired TFP, a competitor in the aerospace, medical device enclosure and automotive markets. June 2018, Tru-Form employees, machinery, equipment and inventory were relocated and integrated within the InterTrade Industries 74,000 square foot facility in Westminster California while maintaining the Tru-Form Plastics brand name. The combined company operates under the dba “Tru-Form Plastics, An InterTrade Industries Company”. Tru-Form Plastics has been in business for over 62 years.