When working with Shirlon you can count on
- 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: Rotomolding & Vacuum Forming Excellence
Rotational Molding
The Advantage of using roto-molded parts is that you can produce large structurally stable and stress free components. In most cases, our rotationally molded products can compete with similar glass reinforced fiber 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 stress free parts; very fine surface detail such as texture is possible. Rotational molding can facilitate economical parts from low to high volume, which produces little or no scrap. Rotomolding is an excellent process for large hollow parts such as tanks, containers and cover enclosures, etc.
Vacuum Forming
Advantages of Vacuum Forming include: low internal stresses, tooling costs are low compared to other molding methods; your lead time is relatively short from the conceptual design to actual production of your parts compared to other methods. We can customize the Vacuum Forming material properties to suit your particular application. We thermoform parts that are structurally stable and that can withstand environmental stresses, fading and UVA damage since parts have low internal stresses and excellent physical properties. Vacuum Forming is an excellent process for large single wall components such as shrouds, enclosures, material handling trays, etc.over enclosures, 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.