Moreover, back in October 1976, Gottfried Mehnert, the President/owner of Bekum, Berlin Kunstoffe Machinenfabriken GmbH, and his son Matttios, had offered Michael employment as their international technical management consultant, to assist them in expanding the company out of its German base into the new world of carbonated beverages.  Bekum's line of blow-molding machinery was then, and is now, recognized as the most reliable, most efficient machinery for the manufacture of hollow plastic articles.  During the Christmas/New Year's holidays 1976/1977, on a week-long visit to Bekum's Berlin headquarters, Gigliotti agreed to a long-term, evergreen contract, providing these services to Gottfried Mehnert and Bekum.  This relationship continued until 2002, when Michael closed the MGA business.

Shortly after the word of Michael's retirement from Monsanto and his creation of MGA, Inc., circulated throughout the plastics machinery and plastics products industry, Mitchell (Mike) Ford, the CEO of Emhart Manufacturing Company, asked Gigliotti to become a technical management advisor to Emhart's Board of Directors.  Emhart had been the owner of PLAX Packaging, the plastic machinery and product development company that, with Gigliotti's help, Monsanto had earlier acquired.  Mike Ford and Gigliotti had worked together to make this acquisition happen. 

Emhart also asked Gigliotti to serve as the 'outsider'� secretary to their New Business Development Committee, made up of internal executives.  Emhart's line of glass bottle manufacturing equipment dominated the glass bottle industry.  Subsequently this relationship resulted in Michael's being retained by the Glass Bottle Manufacturing Institute, a consortium of glass bottle makers, which placed research programs in universities around the world.  The program was aimed at the manufacture of lightweight glass containers that would hold carbonation pressures and bounce if dropped from three feet.  For this group, Gigliotti made a television documentary, which was circulated through its many company members worldwide.

In 1979 during a visit by Michael and Miriam to one of the early plastic expositions (Kunstoff) in Dusseldorf, Germany, Gottfried Mehnert asked Gigliotti to visit GW Sohlberg Oy in Helsinki, Finland.  Sohlberg was the owner of one of Bekum's earliest blow molding machines, and had received a grant from the Finnish government to develop a measurement device using infrared technology, which would measure the thickness of transparent plastic containers. 

Jukka Makela, the Corporate Director of New Business Development, and Sauli Tormala, a brand-new engineering graduate from Oulu University, had designed, built and experimented with a machine that would do this to large PET soda bottles.  In fact, they were so confident about this development that they already had a couple dozen of these machines under construction, and had trademarked the name GAWIS, for this machine.  GAWIS is the Finnish pronunciation of GWS, the Sohlberg initials.  Gigliotti's technical forecast was enthusiastic, but his commercial forecast was for only a few machines per year for the next five to ten years, which turned out to be very realistic, especially since almost all of the sales were to American corporations.  As a result of this report, Sohlberg spun this development out of its corporation, as a separate company named TopWave Oy, controlled by an agency of the Finnish Government, with Makela and Tormala as minority shareholders.

A new corporation, TopWave USA, Inc., was established in 1980, headquartered in the MGA offices in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with exclusive worldwide marketing rights.  In exchange for acting as a Founder, Corporate Secretary, and Director of this new company, Michael became a shareholder of TopWave USA, the other major owners being the Finnish government agency, and other interested parties.  A cadre of Finnish machine parts suppliers later formed TestWorks Oy, to design and build the GAWIS, machines in Finland.  Although the TopWave USA, Inc., business grew and expanded internationally, TopWave Oy, the supplier of the GAWIS machine, was forced into liquidation by corporate Finnish accounting regulations, and TestWorks, the maker of the machines, became the independent supplier to TopWave USA, Inc. 

TopWave USA grew, merged with TestWorks to form TopWave Industries, Inc.; TopWave became the worldwide standard for quality control of the PET bottle.  In 2001, TopWave was acquired by AGR (American Glass Research Inc.) to form a new LLC named AGR-TopWave LLC, to develop and sell a line of quality-control instruments for the PET bottle industry.