THE PROFILE PLASTICS STORY
Over 65 years of pioneering thermoforming experience
Profile Plastics specializes in custom-molded, highly engineered plastic parts manufactured by the thermoforming processes of pressure, vacuum, and twin-sheet forming.
Our story begins in 1960. Founder John Grundy defined our niche in the custom thermoforming market by producing high end, close tolerance parts to meet increasingly demanding quality standards for our OEM customers.
Learn about the visionary team that brought us here in this story.
Over the years, we built a facility and optimized our manufacturing processes and organization for advanced thermoforming. We make thousands of precise and consistent parts each year. Continue below to discover our capabilities.
Profile Plastics Company Overview Transcript
With over 60 years of experience, Profile plastics as established itself as an industry leader in the thermoforming business, specializing in the manufacturing of custom molded plastic parts.
These parts are engineered through the thermoforming process of pressure, vacuum, and twin sheet forming.
Profile plastics operates under a 175,000 square foot facility.
This state of the art manufacturing facility encompasses 14 thermoforming machines, and it also includes 20, five and six axis CNC trimming machines, along with a quality assurance department outfitted with the latest in part inspection technologies.
Profile plastics has developed a highly controlled proprietary manufacturing process that supports large volume, close tolerance, and high cosmetic part production.
Best known for our pressure forming process, Profile Plastic, provides their customers with the most highly detailed parts, matching those made by the injection molding process.
But when further compared to injection molding, the advantages of pressure forming includes lower cost and short lead time for tooling. highly cosmetic parts equal to or better looking than injection molding. Wide variety of thermoplastic materials available. Easily decorated to further enhance the cosmetics.
Our heavy gauge thermoforming processes, the heating of extruded thermoplastic sheets. Once heated, we apply a vacuum or pressure to form the sheet over designed mold. Thermo plastic sheets can be manufactured to suit a wide variety of product, specification, and requirements, such as flame retarded, UV resistance, low temperature impact, and heat distortion.
Once the products have gone through the thermoforming process, they move to our state of the art CNC stations. They provide a secondary manufacturing operation for all our produced parts.
Profile Plastics’ commitment to quality is further exemplified by our assembly and finishing departments.
We’ve dedicated areas for adding decorations, assembling, and kitting the products. This provides a focused environment that ensures that only parts that meet 100% of the quality parameters are shipped to our customers.
Our iso certification ensures that we maintain a high level of service in providing quality solutions to our customers.
If you have an application that calls for injection molded quality, but your quantities cannot justify the tooling costs, then thermoforming may be the best process for your needs.
To learn more about profile plastics, please call us today at 847604 5100. Or send us an email at sales@profileplasticsinc.com.
Evolving Capabilities, Large-Scale Capacity
Over 130 people on our team operate three shifts a day. Our facilities include a combined 170,000 square feet of manufacturing, assembly, and warehouse space.
Today, we maintain 15 large, custom state-of-the-art thermoforming machines that accommodate an extensive range of thermoplastic materials. Our 24 5-axis CNC trimming machines support our high throughput.
We structured the Profile organization around a team approach. We’re geared toward efficient continuous production. By having the best people organized into logical teams, we minimize lead times and creates efficiencies that reduce the total cost of operation.
The process controls we developed complement our technology, allowing us to produce highly complex parts.
Highlights of what we provide our customers include:
Parts from engineered materials such as ABS, PC/ABS, FR ABS, PC, and PETG (brand names include Lexan, R59, Kydex T, Bayblend, and many others)—with inherent custom color
These are in addition to the array of value-added services we offer our customers, such as higher level assembly, kitting, and finishing, as well as supplier-managed inventory storage for just-in-time goals. See our Value-Added Services page for more about these services.
More Than a Manufacturer, A DFM Problem-Solver
Profile isn’t just satisfied with years of successful design implementation and cost-saving production methods. Our exceptional team of experienced engineers provide design for manufacturing assistance for OEMs, helping to optimize parts for improved performance and cost-efficiency.
In fact, we focus on being creative problem solvers. That’s why we’re dedicated to continuing research and development that ultimately benefits our customers and elevates the industry. Along with providing design assistance, we conduct process seminars as a service to our customers.
Award Winners
Our ability to produce complex part designs has been recognized year after year by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Thermoforming Division. We’ve won more than 40 awards since 1986. Profile is also home to three Thermoformer of the Year recipients, a unique distinction not shared by anyone else in our industry.