Events

This plant tour event is currently SOLD OUT. If you are interested in getting on the waitlist, please contact Marcella Kates at mkates@mappinc.com.

Join MAPP members for the spring plant tour event at member facility Novation Industries, located in McHenry, IL.

Novation Industries® specializes in custom manufacturing solutions and integrated product development services including: Design, Injection Molding, Sourcing, Contract Manufacturing, and Logistics. Novation’s core ideology drives innovation, efficiency, and a customer-centric focus. They serve the automotive, consumer, electronics, industrial, medical, merchandising, and packaging industries.

Novation Industries history originates in plastic injection molding, allowing them to offer customers turnkey services in tool design, engineering, LEAN manufacturing and customizable secondary operations.

By continually seeking out opportunities to work with the newest advances in polymer technology and specialty and engineered resins, complex molding processes, and new technologies in product development, Novation provides solutions for unique and specialty component parts and products.

Their 70,000 square foot facility boasts a centralized material handling and tool storage that is designed to keep dust out and efficiency in. This provides an ideal environment for Class 1 medical, food container, specialty packaging, cosmetics, home healthcare and other clean sensitive product and component production.

General agenda (subject to changes):

7:30 - 8 AM CST: Breakfast and networking at Hampton Inn
8- 9 AM: Intro to tour and Novation
9-10 AM: Challenge Roundtable Discussion
10-11:30 AM: Tour of Novation Industries
12 - 1 PM: Lunch, networking and takeaways/best practices discussion at Hampton Inn
1:30 PM: End

Hotel and Travel

Hotel:

The event will begin and end at the Hampton Inn.

1555 S. Route 31, McHenry, IL 60050

Room block:

https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/mapp-event-april-2023/

Room block ends April 3, 2023.

Airport:

The nearest airport to McHenry is Chicago O'Hare (ORD) Airport which is 31 miles away. Other nearby airports include Milwaukee (MKE) (46.6 miles), and Chicago Midway (MDW) (46.6 miles).