Tek Pak expands into St. Charles

Tek Pak Inc. of Batavia announced the grand opening of its new research and development center in St. Charles.

The new building was purchased in 2008 as a result of Tek Pak's expanding product development program, which had outgrown its facilities in the main manufacturing plant in Batavia.

Renovations to the facility at 942 Equity Drive east of Kirk Road in St. Charles were recently completed, and the facility is now fully operational. Nine full-time employees and 2 college interns currently work at the location.

The entire facility is environmentally controlled, and it contains a HEPA-filtered laboratory for operations that require limited amounts of airborne particles.

"Our new state-of-the-art R&D Center gives Tek Pak the ability to fully satisfy our customers' product development needs now and well into the future. The facility provides Tek Pak with a strategic tool to penetrate new markets, diversify our customer base and to grow sales, which is crucial to our mission of continuing to provide high-quality jobs in the US," Tek Pak President Tony Beyer saind in a statement.

Tek Pak was founded in 1992 to provide custom carrier tape for the cell phone market.

While the original product, carrier tape for the electronics industry, is still a significant portion of Tek Pak's business, the company now provides complete thermoforming solutions including part design, tooling, tool repair, prototyping, machine design and fabrication, short-run thermoform production, and precision thermoforming of engineering films. Tek Pak serves the electronics, medical, industrial, food and retail markets.

Daily Herald business writer contributed to this report