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For over 50 years, Plitek® has been an expert manufacturer of precision die cut components and converted materials to a broad range of markets. Through our expansive converting capabilities, we manufacture products and components from thin gage films, plastics, foams, and adhesives. Our customers turn to us for streamlined manufacturing, material sourcing, and process control. We will work with you side-by-side from design assistance, material selection, and prototyping to high volume production. Our US-based manufacturing and design operations are located near Chicago, a top logistics and manufacturing hub. Our reach is global, serving businesses in regional markets to companies with multinational supply chains. Tailored Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions Our state-of-the-art equipment, engineering team, and manufacturing experts provide value-add services and innovative solutions for existing production parts or new design development. By analyzing variables such as application, geometry, performance, and quality requirements, we will help you identify the best solution for your application. Our vertically integrated business model offers a wide range of solutions including custom film extrusion, precision die cutting, slitting, laminating, adhesive coating, release liner coating, pouching, and packaging. We employ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that helps streamline and automate supply chain and resource planning, allowing for a lean and efficient operation.
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Norplex-Micarta is a leading manufacturer of high performance thermoset composite materials based on impregnation and lamination technology. Norplex-Micarta manufactures the highest quality specialty sheet products, prepregs, rods, molded shapes, and tubes to meet demanding applications for OEMs and fabricators around the world.
The global headquarters of Norplex-Micarta is located in Postville, Iowa, USA. To support the demand for thermoset composite materials in Asia, the Company also operates a facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu, P.R. China.
Norplex-Micarta produces sheets, tubes, rods, and other specialty molded shapes for thousands of different applications in dozens of different industries.
The Postville, Iowa facility is equipped with a variety of impregnation and downstream equipment to serve the varied needs of the industrial market. Prepreg can be produced on either horizontal or vertical machines as required to match the requirements of the fabrication process. Norplex-Micarta processes sheets and stock shapes internally.
Sheets are regularly produced at 6 inches (150 mm) thick, and several materials can be produced as a monolithic sheet as thick as 12 inches (300 mm). Tubes are produced on IDs ranging from 0.094 inches (2.3 mm) to 48 inches (1.2 meters) on specially built mandrels. These materials are generally further processed by firms that specialize in the machining, punching, or other stock removal fabrication process.
We’re a reliable partner that shapes our plastics expertise into success for your project. Plastics are essential to living in our world. And Spartech is making a world of difference by developing plastic solutions that are sustainable, diverse, reliable and help bring innovative ideas to life.
To us, plastics make life better. You see it, touch it and depend upon plastic for everything from medical and food packaging to aerospace and automotive applications. These are all industries that require a responsive partner like Spartech.
As a leading plastics manufacturer of custom plastic packaging and sheet and rollstock, we leverage our knowledge of materials, processing, and application development to deliver the highest level of value to our customers. We do all this on-time and on budget. We’re making all this possible every day.
As for where Spartech will take plastics tomorrow, we believe there are no limits to how we can make the world better through our strength in plastics.
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