Your Partner in Food Processing
The inventory of materials for food processing applications includes a wide range of FDA, USDA, NSF, and 3A Dairy-compliant engineering plastics. In addition we feature detectable materials from Ensinger and Quadrant designed specifically for the food processing ability. All of these materials can be used for applications where materials come into direct food contact. Engineering plastics are well noted for thier ability to withstand many challenging environments. Based on your needs our selection of engineering plastics provides options that withstand high wear, wet environments, hot steam, harsh chemicals, and hot dry environments found which are all found in the food processing industry.
Our selection includes engineered plastics that are capable of working in:
- Temperatures, from cryogenic to more than 400°F
- Dry environments with potential for static build-up and static discharge
- Hot steam environments including autoclave for sterilization
- Submersion in boiling water
- Harsh Chemical environments such as cleaners and sterilizers
Our inventory also includes machine grade engineered plastics that can replace metal bearings, wear pads, guides, gears and more. These materials offer the benefits of self-lubrication, light weight, noise reduction, and low maintenance requirements.
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.
