Why Choose Us?

We’ve been solving our customers’ sealing challenges for decades. We have the experience and technology to solve yours, too. Our team has engineered and built over 7,000 custom plastic extrusion and co-extrusion profiles with 99.99% accuracy and 99.72% on-time delivery. Here’s how:

DFM & DFA Engineering

We’re not just a manufacturer, we’re a partner in engineering. We take a DFMA approach to everything we do. This allows us to simplify, re-engineer, and drive cost out of your extruded seal, all while maintaining or improving its form, fit, and function. The result? Elegant, multi-function, reliable seals designed for lean assembly.

Automotive Expertise

We know the industry. With dozens of OEM and Tier 1 customers across the globe, we’re more than capable of meeting and surpassing tough quality standards, delivery demands, and budget constraints for high-volume orders. Our automotive seal customers are well-served by our strategically-located manufacturing and logistics facilities across North America.

In-House Tooling

From the ground up, we get it right for our customers. If your seal design can’t be matched to an existing extrusion profile, we’ll design and build the right tooling, in house. This includes prototype and production extrusion dies, trim and fabrication tools, fixtures and gauges, and anything else to assist in optimal design, manufacturing, and performance of your custom extruded plastic seal.

Co-Extrusion

Complex sealing challenges don’t require complex solutions. In fact, we can achieve multiple characteristic properties by combining two or more materials in one step using co-extrusion.

In-Line Processing

We can apply tape, flock, and slip coat to your seal right on the extrusion line, reducing the need for secondary processes and operations.

Secondary Operations

Welding, insert/over molding, and other secondary operations for your seal are done in-house to reduce lead times and non-value added costs such as shipping to another facility.

Cost-Drivers

Cost creep can kill your plastic seal program. While it’s impossible to predict every single cost an extruded plastic seal program will incur, you can minimize unpredictability and cost-creep by simplifying your design. The following list is by no means exhaustive, but it does cover the major cost-drivers that you should consider:

Design

Typically, the more complex the seal, the more expensive it will be to engineer and manufacture. Features such as hollows, semi-hollows, narrow die sections, non-identical thickness, tight tolerances, and living hinges should be avoided whenever possible.

Design Changes

Any change to the quoted seal design can result in increased cost, especially if it happens after the initial tooling has been built. For this reason, we conduct extensive feasibility testing and simulations for our customers before the manufacturing process begins to minimize the risk of expensive design changes.

Tooling

There is more to tooling than the extrusion die itself. Of course, the more complex the die the more expensive it will be to make, but you should also consider the cost of any trim or fabrication tools you’ll need after the initial seal is extruded, as well as fixtures and gauges to support the seal during secondary operations.