Plastics distributors and fabricators have a wide array of abilities. Emco Industrial Plastics and displays shares a "taste" of some of the services and capabilities offered in this slide presentation. Click on the company logo on the bottom of each page to learn more about each topic

2.  Emco Industrial Plastics continuously invests in the latest plastics
cutting technology to support your cut-to-size needs. And because
we precision-cut your plastic materials to exact size, you’ll not incur
any extra material costs for material you don’t need!
 Ability to process plastic materials from .001″ thick and greater to
widths and lengths up to 126″
 Close-tolerance plastics cutting within ±0.005″
 Smooth, chip-free edges requiring no secondary machining
 Cut-to-size pieces are always clean and dust-free
 Access to our in-house inventory, including phenolics, glass
polyesters, and fiberglass material offers our customers a distinct
competitive advantage and significant cost savings

3.  The Multicam 2000 has a working area of 60” x 100” and is capable
of cutting and polishing up to 1″ thick acrylic. This amazing laser
cutting machine will complement the extensive list of other CNC
equipment Emco Plastics currently employs in its fabrication
department. The new laser will ensure that Emco Industrial Plastics’
clients get the very latest technology available to create stunning
quality products faster. As the manufacturing industry advances in
technology, Emco also has to adjust their manufacturing capabilities
to better serve a larger and more diverse manufacturing community.
By adding new equipment like the Multicam 2000, Emco has greatly
increased their engineering services to include rapid prototyping and
precision machining of practically any type of plastic material.

4.  Machined components from engineering and high performance plastics are our
specialty. Since Emco Industrial Plastics stock large volumes of all materials in
sheets, round rods, or tubes, you are not forced to pay for full lengths. We will
machine your parts to print and only charge you for the material consumed.
 Access to our in-house inventory – here’s a partial listing of materials we machine:
 Delrin®
 Nylon
 PTFE
 Ultem®
 Noryl®
 Ertalyte®
 Polysulfone
 PEEK
 Torlon®
 Vespel®
 Celazole®
 Lexan®
 Techron® PPS
 Radel®
 Acetal

5.  From prototype to production runs, Emco makes the process of buying
fabricated plastic goods easy and worry-free. Emco’s highly skilled acrylic
fabricators can handle your job.
 Emco’s wide range of machinery and techniques include thermoforming,
infa-red heating, die cutting, vacuum forming, drape forming, oven
bending, edge finishing, sand blasting, and solvent welding.
 Custom fabricated items for manufacturers nationwide have included:
• Safety guards
• Boat windshields
• OEM change parts
 Specializing in acrylic and PETG displays and store fixtures for nationwide
retail chains:
• Sign / brochure holders
• Frames
• Bubble-free PS30 joints for vitrines and museum boxes

6.  Emco’s butt welding technology forms larger sheets whose joints exceed
parent material strength. Leak-free welds and joints are made possible by
Emco’s hot air and extrusion welding processes.
 The large, continuous formed sheets can later be fabricated into ducts,
tubes, and columns in Emco’s large walk-in thermoforming oven or with
forming machines that can bend thermoplastic sheets in full sheets
thicknesses up to 2″ and lengths up to 10′.
 Plastic welded applications include:
• Thermoplastic tanks for plating, anodizing, cleaning, wastewater treatment and chemical processing
industries
• Rotationally Molded Tanks
• Flexible Drop-in Liners
• Sinks
• Sematech approved wet benches
• One piece construction of cabinets, wet benches, wafer stackers, polishers, spin dryers, and tanks
• Fume hoods
• Ducts and fittings for exhaust and ventilation

7.  Below are some of the many items we can create for you:
 Dairy Certified – Caps, sprouts, and adapters
 NSF Certified – Soft drink components
 Automotive – Tall light, turn signal lenses and housings, fuse holders,
speaker brackets, and assemblies, RV components
 Non-intrusive medical – Unit dose medicine packaging
 OEM Products – Fuse pullers, circuit and voltage testers, vending
machine parts, point of purchase display components, computer cases
and components
 We can handle a wide range of commodity and engineering grade
filled and unfilled resins, including:
 ABS, Glass Filled Nylon, PVC, HDPE, LDPE, PP, HIPS, TPE, TPR,
Nylon, Acetal

8.  Drape forming is a process whereby a plastic sheet is heated to the state where it can be pressed,
bent or formed into or over a mandrel or form and sometimes using both an inside and outside form
creates the desired shape without the use of vacuum.
 A major benefit of drape forming is the low cost tooling or fixtures. Another benefit of drape forming is
that the plastic is not typically stretched during the process so the plastic retains its full dimensional
thickness from that of its original form in a flat sheet of material. In addition, the plastic sheet, if clear
or textured, will retain its surface features post-processing.
 Once the plastic cools to a state that allows it to be removed from the forming tool (fixture) the part is
set aside and another plastic sheet is set onto the forming fixture. Many simple items can be
produced using the drape forming process, including motorcycle and boat windshields, medical
devices that match up to that of a human form, and artistic shapes and freeform curves that are
pleasing to the eye.
 One major drawback to drape forming is slow production as it may require many fixtures or forms to
allow for some pieces to cool while other pieces are being used. If the drape formed part being made
requires production volumes of hundreds or thousands of pieces, then aluminum water cooled tooling
may be required. Drape forming should definitely be explored as an option for many prototype and
new start up projects.

9.  Vacuum forming is a very economical method for producing plastic parts. The vacuum forming
process can produce parts in various configurations in small and large quantities at a reasonable
price. This process involves the controlled heating of plastic materials to a temperature where it is
flexible enough to be altered by the shape of a mold with the help of vacuum. In this method, the
heated plastic sheet is forced against the mold by the air pressure differential created by pulling a
vacuum between the sheet and the mold.
 Vacuum forming can be used for projects like:
• Product packaging
• Agricultural applications
• Medical applications
• Lift truck enclosures
• Railcar interior trim parts and seating components
• Engine covers for construction equipment
• Fascias for outdoor kiosks and ATM applications
• Vacuum forming has advantages over other plastic production methods.

10. Send Us Your Drawings!
We can serve your requirements from prototype to large-scale production. Please send us your
CAD drawings/blueprints for quotation. We utilize AutoCAD 2002 and should be able to open and
receive most any format drawing.