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Dymotek Corp. has been installing millions of dollars worth of new equipment at its Somers plant, as the injection plastic molding company gears up for growing production of plastic parts sold internationally for medical, automotive, consumer, and industrial products.

To ensure workplace values, integrity and relationships are held to a high standard at Dymotek Corp., officials created their own word: Dymotegrity. "Our company's ethical cornerstone is the foundation of every relationship. … Everyone — the folks on the floor — they have genuine pride in what they're doing," Dymotek CEO Norm Forest said. "They understand why they matter and how they support the whole. It goes beyond that to the level of our customers, suppliers, each other [and] associates.

Good communication, an open-book policy, and being truthful and sincere are important factors in keeping employees, according to members of a panel from plastics companies that have been named to the list of Best Places to Work.

For the last 12 years that Dymotek Corp. CEO Norm Forest has been involved with the Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors, one thing stands out: "[The Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference] is the all-time most inspirational and worthwhile conference of the year."

Forest has been with the Ellington, Conn.-based injection molding company for 20 years; he joined the