What you can expect when working with Shirlon:
- A Culture of Strategic, Creative and Innovative Problem Solving
- A Commitment to Helping Customers Succeed
- Balancing Hands-On Plastics and Project Management Experience with Leading Edge Technology
- Augmenting our Knowledge with Input from Key Strategic Alliances and Industry Partners
- Working in Teams to Bring a Broad Range of Expertise through various Perspectives
- Speed – to Market Expertise
- The End Result: Rotational Moulding & Thermoforming Excellence
Rotational Molding
An advantage of using rotomolded parts is the ability to produce large structurally stable and stress free components. In most cases, our rotationally molded products can compete with similar glass reinforced fiber (fiberglass) or steel at a fraction of the cost. Our secondary operations allow you to add special or custom features to your product, which adds value to a part. Unlike other molding processes, rotational molding produces small to large parts where very fine surface detail such as texture is possible. Rotational molding can facilitate economical parts from low to high volume, which allows for scrap minimization. Rotomolding is an excellent process for large to small hollow parts such as tanks, containers, bins, boxes, material handling and cover enclosures, control panels, etc.
Vacuum Forming
Advantages of Vacuum Forming / Thermoforming include: low internal stresses, economical tooling costs compared to other molding methods; relatively short lead times from conceptual design to actual production of your parts. Shirlon can customize Vacuum Forming material properties to suit your particular application. Shirlon Plastics thermoforms parts that are structurally stable and parts that can withstand environmental stresses, fading and UVA damage. Vacuum Forming is an excellent process for large or small single wall components such as shrouds, enclosures, material handling trays, returnable shipping trays and pallets, panels, dashboards, control panels, etc.
Design
The vast technical and industry knowledge that our Project Managers have amassed allows Shirlon to provide value-added consultation during the design phase of your tooling projects. We employ a proactive, consultative approach which complements your product design process and identifies key cost drivers in the manufacture of Rotational and Vacuum Forming Tooling. This philosophy helps our customers optimize product design relative to the rotational molding process, controls tooling and operational costs, and increases the longevity and return on your tooling investment.
Material Processing
Shirlon Plastics offers a variety of material processing solutions for Rotational Molding including:
- Custom color compounding
- Recycling of off-cut and scrap rotomolding materials
- Production of rotomolding stone-effect materials in a variety colors
- Infusion of material enhancing additives: UV, Static, Flame Retardant, etc.
What our customers have to say:
"Shirlon Plastics has exceeded our expectations….their quality and service is unsurpassed versus other molders we have dealt with. They are highly recommended."