Profile Plastics News

Have you noticed the new group product photo on the Profile website? This year marks the 25th anniversary of a magazine image that showed off Profile’s capabilities. Our new picture celebrates the changes in our business and growing capabilities while still holding...

OEMs benefit by using thermoforming for high-performance plastic parts. Discover how in the latest issue of the Illinois Manufacturer magazine! It features an informative article from Profile that discusses exactly how. As the thermoforming industry continues to grow,...

Multipart medical device displays advanced design solutions Lake Bluff, IL May 22,2025—Profile Plastics helped develop a new medical device which won two awards for heavy-gauge pressure forming. The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Thermoforming Division honored...

This year we look back on 65 years of innovation in thermoforming! Our story began in 1960, when pioneering thermoformer John Grundy (1932-2017) opened the doors to his garage shop in Northbrook, Illinois. And we’ve continued to advance the art and science of...

Lake Bluff, IL – December 1, 2023 – Profile Plastics has earned two more awards from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Thermoforming Division. The heavy-gauge thermoformer won the People’s Choice award and the Pressure Forming-Gold award for its Covers for...

Fort Worth Texas — Profile Plastics Inc. won the People's Choice Award and a gold award for heavy-gauge pressure forming in the parts competition at the Society of Plastics Engineers' Thermoforming Conference. Placon Corp. also picked up two awards at the conference,...

Profile Plastics, Inc. is proud to announce that we are now ISO 9001:2015 certified. One of the core management objectives at Profile Plastics is to continuously improve the processes and quality of our services. The ISO 9001:2015 certification is a quality management...

Profile Plastics is proud to celebrate over 60 years of custom Thermoforming. We want to thank all of our employees for all of their extraordinary efforts over the years. We would like to thank our amazing engineers. Most of all, we would like to thank our amazing...

Profile Plastics Inc. of Lake Bluff, IL netted three parts competition awards at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) 2016 Thermoforming Conference in Schaumburg. Company officials talked about their win in a Sept. 28 interview. The company won gold in the...