Ajax United Patterns and Molds works to avoid an Achilles heel. The company, doing business as Ajax Custom Plastics and Ajax Custom Manufacturing, builds plastic and metal components for the medical, semiconductor, communications, and food processing industries. Services offered by the company include design and engineering, thermoforming, tooling and machining, welding, and assembly. The company has manufacturing facilities in the US (California and Texas), as well as China and Singapore. Ajax United Patterns, which was established in 1945, is noted for designing and building fresh pineapple peelers for Dole.