Plastic extrusion manufacturing is a fast, cost-effective, and practical way to create numerous products. With many extrusion companies in the United States performing the same services, a key way to select a manufacturer that will differentiate your products is by opting for plastic extrusion finishing operations..
Learn from Custom Profile about specific secondary finishing operations that improve part longevity and performance.
Plastic Extrusion Finishing Operations: In-Line Operations
When talking about secondary finishing operations, it helps to think of them in two main groups: in-line operations and finishing or decorative services. In-line operations are non-standard manufacturing steps that are built directly into the normal production process, rather than being done afterward.
Custom Profile offers the following finishing operations that can enhance your part’s longevity and overall performance:
- Punching: Creates various holes in extruded profiles.
- Notching: Quickly and easily adds notches to the product, allowing for easy installation once it reaches its next destination.
- Cross Head Extrusion: Enhances the structural integrity and strength of the extruded profile, providing increased load-bearing capacity or stiffness. Additionally, this step can improve conductivity, magnetic properties, or compatibility with other metal components or assembly processes.
- Sawing: Allows for an exact, smooth cut on plastic parts, every time.
Plastic Extrusion Off-Line Finishing Operations: Finishing and Decorating
While in-line operations are performed during standard manufacturing procedures, off-line finishing and decorating services are done once the parts are extruded.
Custom Profile offers the following off-line services that not only enhance your order from a visual standpoint, but also improve its longevity and overall performance.
- Off-line punching: Performed on the finished product, which ensures accurate placement of holes or slots on the extruded profile, achieving alignment and compatibility with other components or fasteners.
- Ultrasonic welding: Suitable for a wide range of materials, ultrasonic welding provides a fast and efficient method of joining thermoplastic extruded profiles without the need for additional adhesives or fasteners.
- Custom packaging and kitting: Improves efficiency and reduces assembly or installation time by ensuring all necessary components are available in one package.
- Routing: Creates features that enable easier assembly, integration with other components, or specific functionality.
Quality Control Measures
Whether customers opt for secondary operations or not, all orders must undergo stringent quality control measures to ensure your products can function as designed and that there aren’t any errors during manufacturing and secondary finishing operations.
Our teams perform rigorous testing along with visual inspections throughout manufacturing and post-production to validate all parts.
Contact Custom Profile for Your Plastic Extrusion Finishing Operations Today
Custom Profile has expertise in creating extruded products across numerous industries. From manufacturing components for tables and chairs to construction applications, medical devices, and appliances, we’ve been on the leading edge of extrusion services that offer reliability, quality, and comfort since 1992.
Our secondary services feature both in-line operations and finishing and decorative services, truly bringing the custom touch to your products.
Along with our extrusion services, our impressive material selection featuring more than 400 different types of polymers means our team and yours are bound to find the right combination to create the products you need.
Contact us today for all your plastic extrusion secondary services and general extrusion needs.