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Fawn Industries, through its subsidiary Fawn Plastics, is a full-service supplier of decorative injection-molded plastic components and assemblies, as well as metal-fabricated components (extrusions, stampings, die castings, and machined parts). We are headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland with our sales office in Livonia, Michigan, and have manufacturing facilities in Chihuahua, Mexico and Shenzhen, China. Since 1953, Fawn Plastics has established a reputation as a world-class supplier to the Automotive, Telecommunications, Computer/Business Machine, Industrial, and Consumer Products markets.

Working at AMETEK Westchester Plastics, I reorganized and updated outmoded filing systems, maintained files significant to the day-to-day processes of the factory, and organized communication between vendors and staff.

The Mission - Apogee is a Design, Engineering, and limited run manufacturing firm focused on affording midsize to large organizations the opportunity to function as startups once again. The Story - Our vision came to us in the late 70’s when a biologic company named Bethesda Research Labs connected with Apogee looking to bring commercially viable apparatus to market for use with their products in place of ‘on-the-fly’ rigs, produced by lab techs in that era. The combined team developed the S2®, a revolutionary DNA sequencer of its time. Helping to launch a local Maryland firm from a biologic company to the biotech juggernaut we know today as Life Technologies, now part of Fisher Scientific, with what became the world standard in manual sequencing. The S2 is still used in labs around the globe today, and we're proud to offer the full line of systems under the Apogee Electrophoresis™ label. Since, Apogee has taken part in early stage product development and manufacturing for some of the most successful organizations in the world. We are honored to be a part of the things achieved at Tandberg (acquired by Cisco), Ventev, Protea Biosciences, Naval Research Lab, the National Institutes of Health, through the Apogee Designs development brand. In addition, Tesla, BMW, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Textron and NASA through its HardGuard® product protection brand. The Value - Since beginning, our focus has been working with innovators bringing to fruition enabling solutions for their portfolios while minimizing startup costs to meet the needs of an ever more rapidly changing global market. With core competency of complex assemblies with lots <1,000 units, we allow clients to respond to market demands with the agility of a startup. Apogee is your collaborative design, engineering and manufacturing partner; focused on helping you seize new market opportunities while other firms are struggling with complex development, staffing, and sourcing plans.