Among the largest and most technically advanced custom plastics thermoformers in North America, Gage Industries is also one of the most fully integrated manufacturing facilities of its kind. With three divisions–Rigid Plastic Packaging, Heavy Gauge Forming and Plastic Sheet Extrusion–Gage produces a wide range of custom and stock plastic products.
Thin Gauge
Gage is a leader in developing thin wall thermoformed packaging products for the food, medical, electronic and nursery industries. Although we have been nationally recognized specialists in CPET technology since the mid-1990s, we work in a wide variety of other materials including HDPE, PP and APET. Long-standing relationships with major resin suppliers ensure us the best of materials at competitive pricing.
Our vertically integrated, technically advanced facility features a range of in-house capabilities, including extrusion, new product design, and state-of-the-art design engineering and tooling. We incorporate quality assurance and measure whatever is important to our customers. In our CPET line, for example, we regularly measure cold temperature impact strength and formed detail.
Heavy Gauge
We manufacture custom heavy gauge thermoformed plastic products serving a wide range of industries, from transportation to medical. Take a look at some of our custom products.
To all our customers we offer ISO 9000 certified quality assurance, customized logistical support and the cost savings of in-house product design and sheet extrusion.
Thermoforming is the heart of our heavy gauge division. Our advanced capabilities include:
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Pressure forming - a process that produces the sharp detail in products that is normally associated with injection molding but with lower tooling cost.
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Twin-sheet forming -a process used to enhance structural integrity and allow for the encapsulation of stiffeners, fasteners and foam filling.
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Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) - a process in which products can have molded-in features and varying wall thicknesses without the high tooling cost and high volume run requirements of injection molding.
For most heavy gauge products, final trim is accomplished using 5-axis CNC equipment. We also provide assembly/part integration and numerous secondary processes such as ultrasonic welding, riveting, painting, silk screening, flocking and EMI/RFI shielding.
Plastic Sheet Extrusion
Gage Industries is one of the leading custom extruders of sheet plastic and roll stock. We have in-house engineering expertise and round-the-clock production capabilities to quickly move your project from concept to delivery. Gage extrusion products ship to quality thermoformers and laminators throughout North America.
We produce general purpose and specialty impact grades of ABS, TPU/TPO, static dissipative and anti-static HDPE, CPET and APET polyesters and all the major olefins. Additional specialty materials are available upon request.
We extrude .020" to .375" in thickness and up to seventy-four inches in width. Our cut sheet and roll stock is produced in a variety of standard and custom colors. Our textures include: Print Quality Matte, Heavy Grit, Fine and Standard Haircell, Saddle Grain, Seville and Gage Moroccan. We also offer a two-or three-layer co-extrusion process, with options for low gloss texture. In addition, single- or double-sided corona treatment and acrylic overlays are available.
ABS sheet produced by Gage serves an impressive mix of market sectors, from RV, aftermarket auto and mass transit to medical, dental, computer and electronics. Our olefin products can be found in packaging and protective instrument cases within industries as diverse as marine, heavy construction, travel and food.
PRODUCTS
Electronics
Our in-house design, engineering, rapid prototyping, sheet extrusion of static-dissipative materials, value-added assembly and part integration all address the High Tech marketplace. Whether it’s pressure-formed bezels or fragility packaging, we provide the customized logistics to get the job done to the most specific parameters and within the most accelerated timeline.
Food
We work in all the major plastics: CPET, APET, HDPE, PP and HIS.
Our Gage Meal Trays™ are rigid plastic CPET containers, bowls, trays, and lids in stock and custom sizes, shapes and compartmental configurations. Our super impact modified CPET, a specialty of ours for the past ten years, is freezable, microwavable and conventional oven safe to 400 F. CPET also works well in refrigerator deli applications as a good barrier tray to extend product shelf life.
Industrial
Gage Industries brings its strong materials and tough design insights to meet the needs of industrial products—from durable floor laminate, to equipment cases and machinery covers, or anything else that is greeted every day with extreme stress. Using ABS, FRABS, polyethylene and polypropylene, we utilize sheet extrusion, pressure, vacuum and twin-sheet forming to create products that make the working world work better.
Medical
From products used in the manufacturing of medical equipment to the products found in labs, hospitals, and physician offices, Gage serves a diversity of product applications in the medical industry.
Our in-house prototyping services and custom sheet extrusion (think custom colors!) serve the medical industry well.
Nursery
In the 1980’s, as an innovator in recycled plastic, we bought post-consumer plastic to make durable, HDPE containers. Gage DuraPots™, still made from recycled materials, have formed ribs on their sides to allow for enhanced root growth and the easy release of seedlings. Gage Durapots™, available in a variety of sizes and colors, continue to be a product of choice for the nursery and greenhouse business.
Recreation
In the recreation industry, we are valued for our ability to quickly develop prototypes, to produce small as well as large quantity runs and to use the most appropriate sheet extrusion, thermoforming or pressure-forming technologies available in the plastics industry.
Transportation
We serve some of the largest names in the trucking industry with both formed and sheet products. In doing so, we develop and manufacture products utilizing hybrid materials, sophisticated processes and final assembly of multiple parts.
