Your Partner in Aircraft & Aerospace
thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics is a division of thyssenkrupp Materials NA, a trusted supplier in the aerospace industry for decades. thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics's online store, Online Plastics®, supplies a wide array of high-performance plastics used in commercial planes, military aircraft, and satellites to aviation, space, and defense manufacturers and their subcontractors. thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics' Auburn Hills, MI location is AS9100 and ISO 9001 certified to meet the most stringent requirements in the aerospace industry. Our locations in Acworth, GA and Yonkers, NY are also ISO 9001 certified.
As a supplier that meets this standard, thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics creates and maintains a comprehensive quality system for providing safe and reliable products to the aerospace industry that meet customer and regulatory requirements, as well as civil and military aviation requirements.
thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics provides full lot and batch traceability on every piece of material that ships. Our plastic material expertise combined with our AS9100 and ISO 9001 certifications mean you can have confidence in your choice of thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics as your strategic partner for aerospace materials.
Our high-performance plastics feature unique properties that help manufacturers save costs while increasing safety. These plastics can handle extreme temperatures and save weight on critical parts. Engineers often look to an engineered plastic solution to improve quality, performance, and reduce fuel consumption. Certain engineered plastics and high-performance plastics, such as polyimides and PAIs, often outperform more traditional metals and typically weigh far less, helping to reduce the consumption of fuel. The team at thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics can assist with finding just the right materials for your specific application.
Notably, thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics is also an Authorized Distributor for DuPont™ Vespel®, a high-performance plastic material used throughout the aerospace, defense, and aircraft industries. We sell only authentic DuPont™ Vespel®.
thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics is stocking distributor and fabricator of industrial plastic shapes. Our primary focus is engineered plastics for fabricators, machine shops and OEM communities. Stock includes plastic sheet, rod, tube and shape. We service many industries and it can be said that the plastics we carry are in everything from knee replacements to the Mars Rover and everything in between.
thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics operates 12 stocking warehouse locations and 9 sales offices throughout the United States. The company is structured around local distribution service centers that can provide fast, efficient delivery. Our processing system is customer–based, with a focus on top notch customer service as well as value added capabilities including custom cutting, inventory solutions, and full lot traceability of materials. We also provide machining and fabrication services as an added value to our customers. As part of the thyssenkrupp Materials NA nationwide logistics system, we are able to provide next–day delivery to the majority of customers in North America.
thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics has teams of experts in different focus areas to help meet your needs. Whether that’s through our internal logistics teams, our product managers, industry experts, or other customer service minded staff, we are focused on working for you to improve service, lower your inventories, reduce work in process and free up your working capital. At thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics, we want to be your first choice for both materials and your supply chain needs.
thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics has over 50 years of experience in the plastics industry, not only selling plastics but machining and fabricating them as well. Our experts will work with you to create the parts you need in any industry. We can also provide scheduling and delivery so you get the right number of parts as you need them. Plus our experts will give material selection support to ensure your parts are made from the best material for quality and value.
Bring us your design and our professionals will help you determine the optimal material solutions and how to best achieve high quality and economical value. We can set up a schedule and provide a customized inventory solution for your parts so you get what you need when you need it.
Our full service machine shops provide state-of-the-art 5-axis machining as well as the following services:
- NC Sawing - thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics offers precision sawing services on all materials using state-of-the-art NC equipment.
- CNC Routing - Our dual-head CNC routers allow us to run two identical parts on the same machine at the same time for increased efficiency. A vacuum table holds the work piece without clamps or vises. Capabilities include circles, discs, square or rectangular parts, mill down surfaces, radius edges, drill, countersink, and counter bore holes.
- CNC Vertical Machining - Our state-of-the-art CNC vertical machining centers can drill and tap holes, mill down top and side surfaces, mill angles, radius edges countersink, and counter bore.
- CNC Turning - Our CNC lathe with live tooling can turn down OD and bore out ID, drill and tap holes on the OD, drill and tap holes in the ID, mill flat surfaces on round bar, mill angles on round bar, make square rod round, radius edges, and cut-to-length.
- Fabrication Services - Working closely with customer design and material engineers, thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics offers additional value by fabricating, polishing, bending, and gluing parts to exact customer specifications. Our customers save both valuable time and money by having these first-stage processing steps completed and delivered just in time to their door.
If you are interested in our Value Added Capabilities, call us at (877) 246-7700 or send us a message.
