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Injection molding houses are heavily concentrated in LCOL areas -- but it's a massive market, so, so much of modern materials are plastic that there's a lot that's done in the US/Canada/Mexico, in North America, and Germany/Italy/Austria.

For just the automotive industry, there are 120 injection molding contractors in Michigan alone. Onshoring and reshoring are desired for really customer facing parts -- you spend a lot of weight on packaging to mitigate scratches when you produce abroad then assemble domestically.

Staying with automotive, electrification is driving the injection molding industry -- as your weight shifts to "big battery with a shell around it" more of the total components of a vehicle are injected.

Zooming out of automotive, biomedical device packaging is a huge injection molded business that's stayed in the US and is growing.