Elasto Proxy helps you source extruded plastic materials, and then designs and custom-fabricates extruded plastic parts that meet all of your application requirements. For example, with our Pantone color matching capabilities, we can help you source plastic extrusions that meet your existing product color schemes. Elasto Proxy's solutions providers can also recommend food-safe plastics or FDA approved plastic materials.

Rubber and elastomer materials have their advantages, but plastic parts permit greater detail - especially on a long strip with a lip. Extruded plastic parts are also stronger and harder, and do a better job keeping their shape. By contrast, rubber parts must be designed to prevent collapse after extrusion. Ask our solutions providers if plastic extrusions are right for your application.

Choosing Extruded Plastics for Custom Fabrication

Elasto Proxy can source plastic extrusions made from polyvinylchloride (PVC), high-performance thermoplastics (HPTPs), green plastics, medical plastics, specialty polymers, and thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs). We can also source green plastics made from recycled or recyclable materials.

TPEs are a group of rubber-like materials that combine the processing strengths of thermoplastics with the best qualities of thermoset rubbers. As their name suggests, thermoplastics are temperature-sensitive plastics that become soft or fluid when heated, and then harden when cooled.

Extruded TPEs and Green Plastics

Extruded TPEs require less energy for cutting and permit finer details, closer tolerances, and more color choices than rubber parts. Other plastic materials also have their advantages. For example, HPTPs provide greater thermal stability over both the short and long terms.

Green plastics can help your company reduce its carbon footprint and meet customer demand in places where petroleum-based plastics such as PVC are banned. Recyclable window trim and other building products made from green plastics can also help with LEED certification.