DEMGY Group acquires Tool-Gauge

DEMGY Group has grown its footprint in the U.S. with the acquisition of Tool-Gauge, a Tacoma, Washington-based manufacturer of plastic cabin interior parts. This new acquisition strengthens DEMGY Group’s international leadership in high value-added plastics processing solutions for the aerospace industry. The acquisition specifically boosts the DEMGY Group’s position as a Tier 1 supplier to Boeing and Airbus, and a Tier 2 supplier to all aerospace equipment manufacturers.

This also follows DEMGY Group’s 2023 acquisition in Germany of EIS Aircraft, now DEMGY EIS, a European specialist in plastic and composite components for cabin interiors and a major supplier to Airbus.

Tool-Gauge, to be renamed DEMGY Pacific, is a longstanding U.S. industrial player, specializing in cabin interiors, with the manufacture of plastic components and sub-assemblies for civil and military aeronautics.

Tool-Gauge possesses essential industrial know-how in plastic injection molding and the machining of high-performance materials. Tool-Gauge was honored with Boeing’s Silver Performance Excellence Award for nine consecutive years (2010-2019) and is a longstanding Boeing D1-4426 / BAC5321 Class I and II approved supplier.

The acquisition of Tool-Gauge demonstrates DEMGY Group’s commitment to innovation and continuous improvement in structural lightening. One of the pillars of Tool-Gauge is activity dedicated to the deployment of new products for aircraft interiors, representing highly critical know-how in the transformation of materials into high-performance plastics.

“By reinforcing its leadership in high value-added plastics processing for the aerospace and defense industries, DEMGY Group has become one of the world’s leading, if not the leading, supplier of plastic cabin interior parts directly to Airbus and Boeing, as well as to all American and European aircraft equipment manufacturers. At the same time, we have just signed major contracts with our main customers, which will certainly help us to optimize the benefits from the acquisition,” explains Pierre-Jean Leduc, CEO of DEMGY Group.

With DEMGY Pacific, DEMGY Group will strengthen its position in the U.S. with two workshops dedicated to injection molding of high-performance polymers for cabin interior parts, and metal machining for aircraft spare parts, which will also be dedicated to high-performance polymer machining.

“This strengthened positioning will enable us to deploy our cutting-edge technological solutions on a much larger scale, offering components created from high and extreme performance polymers,” Leduc said.

Leading the new, expanded organization will be Pierre-Jean Leduc as CEO of DEMGY Group and DEMGY Pacific; Mike Walter as President of DEMG Pacific and DEMGY Chicago (DEMGY’s two U.S. operations); and Eric Wilmoth as VP of Operations of DEMGY Pacific.

“Through this acquisition, we’ll grow and enhance our U.S. footprint by strengthening our position as a leader in high value-added plastics processing for the aerospace and defense sector,” Walter said. “We’re enthusiastically looking forward to the synergies that DEMGY Pacific will be able to develop with the DEMGY Group’s other facilities in injection molding, assembly, and decoration.”

DEMGY Group’s circular Multiplasturgy offering, a one-stop shop for its 15 areas of expertise, starts with eco-design, which enables upstream management of the end-of-life of products and their recyclability. The Normandy-based Group now has four sites in France; including its head office in St- Aubin-sur-Gaillon; two in Germany; two in Romania; two in the United States; as well as three R&D centers.