Gianforte tours Missoula plastics manufacturing company

Diversified Plastics began in a Missoula garage in 1976 when founder Rod Reid started selling engineered plastic wear strips to local lumber and pulp mills.

His son, Brad Reid, bought the company in 2000, and today the firm has about 80 employees, an average annual wage of $75,000 and will bring in around $24 million in revenue this year. They’re waiting on city permits to build a 24,000-square-foot expansion building on their property on Grant Creek Road just off Reserve Street.

Gov. Greg Gianforte speaks with Christian Peragine, an injection mold technician, during a tour of Diversified Plastics in Missoula on Wednesday.

SHANNA MADISON, Missoulian

On Wednesday, Gov. Greg Gianforte got a tour of the facility as part of his yearly “56 County Tour” across the state to highlight businesses and entrepreneurs.

According to the 2023 Montana Manufacturing Report produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana, there are over 4,400 manufacturing firms in the state.

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