Plastic Processes
• Thermoforming
- Rotary and single station vacuum & pressure forming
- Max impression 5’x10’ with a 40" draw
- Ability to form commodity and engineered resins up to .450" thick
- CNC trimming including 3 and 5 axis
- Numerous secondary operations performed
- Warehousing and JIT deliveries
• Injection Molding
- 80-1,000 Ton machines
- Silo storage of raw material of 240,000 lbs.
- Sister company is one of the largest tool shops in the Midwest
- Design assistance available utilizing the latest in CAD/CAM
- Experience running all the resin families including high temperature and engineered grade resins
- Warehousing and JIT deliveries
- Short run/prototype tooling in one week
- Short run production (10-10,000 pcs)
• Rotational Molding
- Maximum part size is 115" spherical
- CNC trimming
- Ability to co-design or assist in design refinement utilizing
PRO-E
- Several North American manufacturing facilities
- Warehousing and JIT
deliveries
• Fiberglass Molding
- Hand lay-up/spray-up, RTM, light RTM, and RIM
- Wide spectrum of materials
including polyesters, vinylesters (including fire retardant, smoke
and toxicity), urethanes, and hybrid resin systems
- In house design assistance
and structural composite engineering
- 5 axis CNC trimming
- Warehousing and JIT deliveries
• Blow Molding
- Ability to mold small container type parts to very large parts
- Use
of all the blow molding resins
- Insert molding, internal thread molding
- Product assembly and packaging
- Warehousing and JIT deliveries
• Plastic Extrusions
- Tubing up to 6" diameter and profile shapes up to 7" w/
a .250" wall thickness
- Co-extrusion of dual durometers
- Use of both rigid and flexiable materials
- Secondary operations
- Warehousing and JIT deliveries
• Structural Foam
- Multi-station molding
- In house painting and assembly
- Four 150,000 lb raw material silos
- In house tool shop which is fully
equipped for design, build, repair and scheduled maintence
- Warehousing
and JIT deliveries
• UHMWPE
- Boards, bars, angles and solid rod
- 4.2 million molecular weight minimum
- Custom profile extrusions and CNC fabrications
• RIM
- Large structure parts with variation in wall thickness
- Material and insert encapsulation
- Fast tool times with multiple materials passing flame requirements and shielding
- Parts painted and value added assembly