With services extending from engineering and design to final assembly, cosmetic finishing and shipping, Universal Plastics is the single source for your entire project and complex assemblies. Our portfolio of in-house services can help streamline your supply chain, reduce costs, and shorten lead times. For more information on our secondary services or to discuss your needs, please contact us.
In-House Woodshop:
Our large, 42’x 44’ woodshop offers extensive experience creating fixtures and solutions for finishing parts. Over 3,000 wooden fixtures have been made in-house over the past 30 years. These fixtures hold the parts down to insure effective and efficient finishing techniques.
Painting Capabilities:
Our paint assembly unit contains 9 paint booths with an automated paint line. With our heated nitrogen paint booth, each coat is heated which insures 50% faster drying times on each coat, allowing for faster cycle times which will improve cost. This is done without altering the properties of the paint. Sags, runs, drips and orange peel become a thing of the past. This process ensures consistent results on each part. For high textured painting, we have solvent and aqueous paints. RF/EMI Shielding is also a solution for a lot of our medical parts.
Sonic Welding:
We offer ultrasonic bonding to meld two or more plastic parts via a unique sonic welding process. This process creates an incredibly strong bond, and can be used to combine parts made of different plastics or polymers. Heat staking is also part of our process. This technique is completed on most our complex assemblies.
Pad Printing:
Universal Plastics’ pad printing processes can add your company logo, instructional graphics, or any other design or wording of your choosing to the surface of plastic injection molded parts. Our automated process ensures perfect accuracy and outstanding repeatability. We have two Tampo pad printing machines capable of multiple color applications.
Packaging and Shipping:
We also pack and ship from our facility. Each pallet is individually stretch wrapped for secure storage and transportation of product. Our packaging includes bulk, cell, foam/bubble and layer packing for part protection. We also have part identifying and barcode labeling capabilities for secure shipping. Our labeling process uses pressure sensitive adhesive and hot stamping.
For more information on our secondary services or to discuss your needs, please contact us.
Secondary & Finishing Capabilities at Universal Plastics:
Universal Plastics is a custom plastic products manufacturer with expertise in a range of processes, including injection molding (gas assist and structural foam), custom blow molding and custom thermoforming for the medical, aerospace, transportation and general industrial markets. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer unbiased, process-agnostic advice and multiple production processes for high mix / low volumes, low mix / high volumes and the breadth in between. All the manufacturing sites within the Universal Plastics family share a long history of providing their customers with high quality, large, complex molded parts and are known for outstanding customer service and engineering support. Each has dedicated staff, operating facilities and processes.
Universal Plastics can meet your end-to-end plastics manufacturing needs – we offer in-house tooling, design & engineering services and a full complement of secondary/finishing services including complex assemblies, high gloss painting (Class A automotive finish), RFI/EMI shielding, drape forming, warehousing, etc. Universal Plastics is ISO9001: 2015 registered. Universal Plastics prides itself on working collaboratively with our customers to improve our business processes, skills and technology to continue to deliver innovative custom plastic product solutions that work at globally competitive pricing. We work with a long-standing and diverse set of customers, from fortune 500 companies, to smaller OEMs to start-ups, in a wide range of industries. Our customers have placed their trust in us to deliver the right product at the right price, the first time. For more information and to discuss how Universal Plastics can put our expertise to work for you, please contact us today.