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Frequently Asked Questions
Custom Design
Engineering & Design Services offers all the assistance you need to create and manage effective reusable packaging programs. Our packaging, applications, and material handling specialists work across all areas of your organization to assess your needs, build support, communicate strategies, and implement systems - all to assure you of a smooth transition to reusables.
Design & Prototyping
Our design and prototyping groups can get started and turn things around quickly for you. With every step of the process in-house you get a team working without communication barriers. We know when each step is completing and can move it through the process.
Moldmaking and Patternmaking
At our affiliated foundry and machine shop, experienced foundry personnel cast and tool the molds used to mass produce plastic parts in the vacuum-forming process. The injection molding tools are precision cut on CNC mills to ensure accuracy and repeatabilty.
Using an affiliated tooling shop helps us maintain quality control throughout the entire manufacturing process and pass on additional cost savings in the form of lower tooling costs.
Manufacturing
Injection Molding
Matsa also produces injection molded parts with extensive capabilities. We mold a variety of engineering grade thermoplastics in both low and high pressure molds. Packaging also dominates this segment of our business, however, we also mold parts for various other industries. We are able to mold parts varying in size from very small to very large, up to and Ltdluding parts weighing 190 pounds.
Our custom injection molding services are unlimited in capabilities. Complemented with our extensive knowledge of material properties and vast experience, we can ensure exceptional products with appealing and enduring design.
Thermoforming
Because of its versatility, efficiency and cost-effectiveness, thermoforming is the preferred process to manufacture returnable packaging, and small to large-scale plastic parts.
Simplistically, the process entails heating a plastic sheet extrusion to its forming temperature, and placing it over a cast mold. The sheet is held against the molding surface with vacuum until cooled, resulting in a stronger and more lightweight product over the alternatives. Matsa extrudes plastic sheets in-house to assure the highest quality and consistency. Thermoforming allows the customer to create premium products, similar to injection molding, but with less expense allocated to tooling.
Custom Pallets
Pallets are platforms created from wood, metal, or plastic that can be used to store or ship items. There are two organizations that regulate pallet sizes to streamline their use across the globe, these are The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Standardization Administration of China (SAC). If a non-standard pallet is needed, one that requires dimensions that differ from standards set by these organizations, it is called a custom pallet. Custom pallets are built to the size and material specifications of the person or business that will use them.
There are several reasons why a business could need custom pallets. If the item is larger than approved pallet sizes or requires crating before shipment, traditional pallets or crates may not be an option. The weight of an item can also require pallet materials to be customized. The heavier the item to be moved or stored, the stronger the pallet materials should be.
Plastic pallets can also be ordered in custom sizes. Plastic pallets are created through a molding process that requires liquid plastic, most often polyurethane, to be poured into a computer-generated mold, sized to the dimensions required by the business. The resulting pallet is often fire-proof and nearly indestructible. A plastic pallet can last up to eight times longer than a wood pallet, however, the cost of a plastic pallet may be higher than that of a wood pallet.