Engineering

Over 40 years of American extrusion tooling experience.

Barbour Plastics has been honing its manufacturing of quality plastic extrusions for over 40 years. Our fully capable engineering team utilizes custom CAD software to design in-house tooling specific to our customer’s needs. Having the design, manufacturing, and extrusion process all under one entity allows our company to remain priced competitively, quick on product turnaround, and seamless in maintenance on long term partnerships. Barbour Plastics’ 28 extrusion lines make for a key nationally competitive manufacturer for all American OEMs to consider.

Single screw extrusion has many advantages when bringing custom parts into production, and is one of the more common machines you will find in an extrusion facility. A single screw extruder contains one screw and one barrel where the plastic will be worked and melted into a single color and material out of our custom die.

Twin screw extrusion has its advantages when running different materials such as powdered resin or when running parts that can be made at higher pounds per hour. Barbour has ten high volume twin extrusion lines made for such projects.

Once the plastic has left the die of the extruder, it will undergo a cooling process. This cooling process could vary from as simple as going into a water bath with some light guidance in the water, to a massive calibration system that has both cooling and vacuum for a good length of the downstream process. The material and volume of your production part often dictates your process and can be discussed with your sales representative.

Some custom extruded profiles require more than one material in the same profile to create a better performing part. Co & Tri extrusions are often a solution in consolidating multiple parts into one high volume purchase part.

Machine Shop Capabilities

Beyond two Bridgeport machines that are also in regular use, we utilize a Hass VF2 CNC Mill that keeps our tooling department very capable of handling multiple projects at once. The use of our CNC mill has increased our extrusion tooling output significantly, while leaving our Bridgeport machines open to any die or machine maintenance that may arise in day-to-day manufacturing.

Engineering

Machine Shop Capabilities

Custom Extrusion

Co-Extrusion/Tri Extrusion

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