MTD Micro Molding has appointed Chad Nikel as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 11, 2026. Nikel brings extensive leadership experience, having served as President and CEO of a global medtech manufacturer. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Haemonetics Corporation, rising to President, Global Plasma and Blood Center.
Nikel brings an uncommon vantage point to this role: he has led a specialized medical device CDMO serving global OEM customers and has managed those partnerships from the customer side as well. He understands what OEMs need from a specialist manufacturing partner — and what it costs when that partner can’t deliver. Roughly a third of MTD’s new programs arrive either as rescues from work that stalled at another molder, or as programs no other molder would attempt. That is the work MTD is built for.
“What drew me to MTD is specific,” said Nikel. “I looked at the capabilities — the tooling, the metrology, the cleanroom production — and they are impressive. But what immediately stood out was the culture: the team’s genuine passion for working together to solve today’s most complex manufacturing challenges. MTD has always been the first to invest in what micro medical manufacturing requires next. My job is to continue building the capabilities and expertise that let us take on the programs others can’t.”
Nikel joins a leadership team strengthened by the return and addition of experienced industry talent across operations, engineering, tooling, quality, and commercial strategy. Peter Wojtas, a certified Master Molder with a Plastics Engineering degree, rejoins MTD with more than 30 years of process and automation expertise, helping to further optimize procedures and adopt new technologies. John Clark, who first joined MTD in 2008 and later oversaw the completion of the company’s facility expansion that doubled its manufacturing footprint, brings more than 20 years of tooling excellence and has returned as Director of Operations. New to MTD, Randy Guertin brings 30 years of medical tooling design and leadership, and Nick Scenna adds his expertise in managing specialized manufacturing. Lindsay Mann has been promoted to Director of Commercial Strategy and Maggie Beauregard to Director of Quality, as the company continues to deepen its technical expertise and operational excellence.
“There’s already an expectation that every customer, every program is a long-term partnership,” said Nikel. “Our primary focus is to continue expanding upon the precision, innovation, and responsiveness customers have come to expect.”
That culture was established by Dennis Tully, a posthumous inductee into the Plastics Hall of Fame, who transformed MTD into a globally recognized specialist in micro medical manufacturing. Under Tully, MTD became the smallest company to be named Plastics News Processor of the Year, a recognition announced only days after his passing in 2019. It remains the standard MTD holds itself to today: Ever Forward.
“Chad understands that the culture my late husband built — the expectation that we solve the hard problem, not the easy one — is the asset worth protecting most,” said Darlene Tully, Owner of MTD Micro Molding. “Companies like MTD earn customer trust through technical performance, not through promises. That’s what our people have delivered for more than 50 years, and Chad’s addition to this team strengthens our ability to keep doing it.”