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Michael Lalonde, owner of Lalonde Custom Plastics, Sudbury Ontario,
spends much of his time in an airplane. But he is not flying, he is
working on the interior of the plane and applying everything he has
learned in life to get the job done.
Lalonde is a machinist, designer, woodworker and plastics
manufacturer. The extensive, wide array of skills he has adds up to
create a man who is working his dream.
"I am doing something I have always wanted to do," says Lalonde. "It
is a dream come true."
Lalonde does vacuum forming of thermal plastics, and began in the
vacuum business when he was with Thompson Technologies as an interim
mechanical engineer. The company brought in a vacuum machine and asked
Lalonde to operate it.
"Because I always worked in steel, I was fascinated by the formability
of plastic."
Lalonde began making plastic enclosures for remote mining systems. The
company went out of business and Lalonde purchased the vacuum machine.
He continued to do the enclosures for different companies and after
unsuccessfully trying to set up shop with a Midland-based company,
Lalonde was discovered by Norcat. Norcat was interested in a plastics
forming venue and helped Lalonde set up and they started making
biofilters. Lalonde says he viewed Norcat as the break
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