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Plastic Sheet Manufacturers and Suppliers

IQS Directory provides a comprehensive list of plastic sheet manufacturers and suppliers. Use our website to review and source top plastic sheets manufacturers with roll over ads and detailed product descriptions. Find plastic sheet companies that can design, engineer, and manufacture plastic sheets to your companies specifications. Then contact the plastic sheet companies through our quick and easy request for quote form. Website links, company profile, locations, phone, product videos and product information is provided for each company. Access customer reviews and keep up to date with product new articles. Whether you are looking for manufacturers of plastic bed sheets, moldable plastic sheets, vacuum forming plastic sheets, or customized plastic sheets of every type, this is the resource for you.

  • Mobile, AL

    We offer plastic sheets made from a variety of materials including polyethylene, polypropylene as well as many others. Our skilled teams of designers and engineers will work side by side with you in order to come up with a product that will most perfectly suit your needs. There is no job that we cannot handle and we love challenges! To learn more about what we may be able to do for you, get in touch with us today!

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  • Chula Vista, CA

    At San Diego Plastics, Inc., we specialize in providing a wide range of high-quality plastic materials to meet the diverse needs of our customers. From acrylics and polycarbonates to PVC and HDPE, our extensive inventory ensures that we can supply the perfect material for any project. With decades of experience, we take pride in offering expert guidance, helping our clients select the right plastics for their specific applications.

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  • San Diego, CA

    At ePlastics, we excel in delivering a comprehensive range of high-quality plastic materials tailored to meet diverse industrial and commercial needs. Our extensive inventory includes everything from durable acrylics and polycarbonates to versatile polyethylenes and polypropylenes. We are committed to providing solutions that cater to various applications, whether it’s for fabrication, manufacturing, or specialized projects.

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  • Lake Villa, IL

    CS Hyde has been providing high-end plastic materials since our founding in 1996, and has become a leading distributor and converter to a wide variety of markets. Materials we have available include Teflon Fluoroplastic, PTFE, Mylar®, Kevlar®, and more. We utilize the most high-tech converting equipment to provide superior products to our customers in a short time frame. It is our continuous mission to provide the highest quality products, innovate new solutions, and exceed expectations.

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  • Fullerton, CA

    Professional Plastics is a leading supplier of engineering plastics, high-performance plastics, and composites. We offer a vast array of products and services, including fabrication, machining, and distribution of plastic sheets, rods, tubing, and films. We also offer a wide range of engineering plastics, high-performance plastics, and composites in various shapes and sizes.

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Plastic Sheets Industry Information

Plastic Sheet Manufacturers

Extruded plastic sheets are an essential part of the plastic fabrication industry, since most thermoforming processes use plastic sheeting of various gauges as a raw material. Consumer products, packaging, plastic containers and many other industries use plastic sheets in thermoforming processes such as vacuum forming, pressure forming and inline thermoforming. The automotive, aerospace, petrochemical, food and marine industries use raw, thick gauge plastic sheets and blocks to machine industry-specific parts.

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Making Plastic Sheets

Plastic sheets are used as signage, and clear acrylic and Plexiglas sheets make excellent windows, large picture frames, barriers and point of purchase displays. Plastic sheeting is extruded the same way plastic channels and profiles are, with an additional end process. Plastic sheet manufacturers feed plastic pellets or flakes into a hopper that then feeds the raw plastic into a screw conveyor. The screw conveyor shears and pushes the material along, heating and "plasticizing" the pellets into molten plastic. As the conveyor continues to turn, molten plastic is pushed out through a flat die. Instead of being instantly cooled, the flat shape is pulled and stretched by grips into wider sheets, which are then fed into a series of round metal cooling "calendars" and are ultimately wound onto spools. Thicker gauge sheets are cut and stacked flat, ready to be thermoformed into many different shapes. Dies can also be round, so that as the plastic is extruded through the conveyor its tube shape is sheared in half, and both top and bottom are stretched into flat sheets separately. Sometimes additives and coating resins are added to the surface of the plastic sheet during the calendering process.

Design of Plastic Sheets

Plastic sheets may be fabricated from a number of different plastic materials, including HDPE, LDPE, PETG, PVC, polypropylene, polystyrene, vinyl and acrylic; different applications call for different properties of strength, flexibility, hardness, corrosion resistance and color, which is why so many styles of plastic have been created. Some industries use plastic sheets with minor alterations for applications such as cutting boards, business signs, Plexiglas windows and silk-screening. Vacuum and pressure forming plastics manufacturers, however, choose plastic sheets with fine to medium gauges to be further processed into three dimensional products.

Plastic Creation Processes

Vacuum formed products are made by heating a plastic sheet until it is flexible, then introducing a male mold underneath the plastic sheet and vacuuming the heated plastic sheet to the mold so it takes the mold's exact shape. The pressure forming process is identical, except that a female mold is introduced and the heated plastic sheet is vacuumed into it. Blister packs and many packaging items are fabricated this way, as well as disposable utensils, containers, bathtubs and showers, marine seats and parts and all other hollow, shaped plastic parts made for industrial, commercial and residential use.



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